Between 1997 and 2020, the share of obese adults in France doubled to 17%, that's 8 million people. The government has now set up a task force on obesity under a professor of nutrition in Lyon called Martin Lavilla. You won't see this necessarily on the streets of Paris, but obesity in France is most marked amongst those on low incomes. It's regionally very much concentrated in places like the ex-industrial northeast of the country.
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it highlights the relationship of a great-power rivalry with inadequate guardrails. Our correspondent visits a market in Mumbai to see what might be lost as India’s economy formalises. And some surprising—and worrying—data puncturing the myth about the skinny French.
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