Obesity on the rise in the US
City on the Mexican border, 38 percent of whose population is obese, mirrors an epidemic that began two decades ago.
Published On 9 Feb 2013
The United States has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of obese people over the past two decades, so much that health officials now call it an epidemic.
In the first of a special series, Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports from one town known as the fattest in the nation.
Source: Al Jazeera