Four out of 10 Cubans Overweight

HAVANA, Nov. 19 – Forty-three per cent of Cubans are obese or overweight, Jorge Pablo Alfonso Guerra, president of the Cuban Society of Nephrology, said when presenting his book on obesity in the central city of Sancti Spíritus, reported IPS.

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