Developing Nations | Obesity Is a Growing Problem in Developing Nations

About the author: Ellen Ruppel Shell is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and codirector of the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University.

In Kosrae, an island in Micronesia, new arrivals are a curiosity, and it seemed that half the island had come to greet me and Steven Auerbacb, a Manhattanbased medical epidemiologist and an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service who had worked in Micronesia in the early 1990s, when we visited last year. Dazed from our 8,000-mile journey, we groped our way down the pockmarked coastal road, driving past...

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