Obesity pandemic engulfing world: experts
(AFP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060903/hl_afp/healthobesityaustraliaconference"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060903/capt.sge.jtg04.030906083710.photo00.photo.default-351x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=Cg4RO.x2nNvyh1z4AvU9QQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="This file photo shows an overweight boy eating sweets while watching television in a shopfront in Beijing. Obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the greatest single contributor to chronic disease, an international conference in Melbourne was told.(AFP/file/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the greatest single contributor to chronic disease, an international conference was told here.</p><br clear="all"/>