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In Switzerland, one person in 10 is obese and a third of the population is overweight

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  • 03 September 2020
  • Nathalie Farpour-Lambert
    • HUG
    • Médecine, UNIGE
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In 2017, 11% of the population was obese, compared with 5% in 1992. As for overweight people, they represented 31% of the population in 2017, the FSO said.

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