Qatar Students Launch Website to Help Tackle Obesity

22.04.12

A group of journalism students has moved to tackle alarming obesity rates and their continued rise in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) through a website aimed at raising awareness and preventing the epidemic’s further spread. The site, http://www.qatarsweetepidemic.org , to helpunravel the crisis of diabetes and obesity in Qatar, is run by students in the Northwestern University in Qatar journalism programme. According to Qatar’s 2011-2016 National Health Strategy, 71 percent of Qatar’s resident population, which includes both Qataris and expatriates, are overweight and 32 percent are obese or morbidly obese. (Source)

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