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GENEVA - Eating food high in starch, sugar, fats and salt; combined with a sedentary lifestyle, is a recipe for soaring global obesity rates, even...
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GENEVA - With one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted, and millions still going hungry, the UN’s food-related agencies are...
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LONDON - Coffee could become a luxurious thing of the past in the UK as farmers abandon their crops because of climate change. Temperature extremes,...
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GENEVA - Childbirth survival rates are now a “staggering success” compared with the year 2000, but one pregnant woman - or her child - still dies...
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