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b'Developing countries need to urgently deal with an obesity \\u201ctime bomb\\u201d ticking away in their economies, and which is already dragging down growth and driving up health costs.\\n\\nThe World Health Organization says that in 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight and 650 million were obese, with the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripling since 1975. Mathias Helble and Azusa Sato investigate.\\n\\nRead the transcript\\nhttps://bit.ly/2SaqUFd\\n\\nRead the report\\nhttps://www.adb.org/publications/wealthy-unhealthy-overweight-and-obesity-asia-and-pacific-trends-costs-and-policies\\n\\nAbout the authors\\nMathias Helble is a former senior economist and co-chair of the Asian Development Bank Institute\\u2019s Research Department in Tokyo.\\nAzusa Sato is a health specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila.\\n\\nKnow more about ADBI\\u2019s work\\nhttps://bit.ly/2LuBDaU\\nhttps://bit.ly/2Re06XG'