PARIS: Low- and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and undernutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned on Monday.
This "double burden of malnutrition," or DBM, affects more than a third of some 130 countries classed as low-and middle-income, the report in the medical journal said.
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