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These photos come from Senegal, where young men and women have been sharing photos of themselves eating WAY too much junk food...using the hashtag "I'm preserving my health". That sounds contradictory, but in fact, they're using humour to get this message across to their peers: "if you want to have diabetes and high blood pressure, be like me: don't exercise, and eat foods with too much sugar, salt, and fat". Each person then tags their friends, and challenges them to post their own pictures.
It's all part of a campaign by doctors to get Senegalese youth to eat more healthily. As the country develops, Senegal is seeing a rise in its rate of adults who are overweight - 46 percent more than in 1990. Fast food has become more prevalent; increasingly sedentary lifestyles are also to blame.
But Senegal is far from the only country where waistlines are growing…
In the past three decades, the rates of people who are overweight have more than doubled in Ivory Coast and Ghana... Same story in several countries in Asia, including China, Bangladesh and Vietnam... Vietnam is the fast-fattening population in the world, with a 125 percent rise!
Still, these countries are far from having the world's most overweight populations.. Contrary to popular belief, it's not the United States, which comes in 27th place... At the top of the list are the Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati They're followed by Kuwait, Qatar, and Egypt.
Senegal is still toward the bottom of the list, but its doctors believe that the best way to fight a disease - is prevention through education.

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