Obesity and diseases linked to it are now killing more people than hunger, according to findings of a major global health study by the Lancet magazine, based in the UK.<br /><br />It found that the average lifespan for women is highest in Japan - at 86 - and lowest in Haiti at 44.<br /><br />Men in Iceland live to 80 on average, but in Haiti the figure is just 33.<br /><br />Heart attacks and strokes are still the biggest killers - accounting for one in four deaths worldwide.<br /><br />Alcohol abuse is on the rise - killing a record number of people, particularly young men in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.<br /><br />The report labels Latin America "the homicide belt" as a rising number of men are being killed by violence.<br /><br />In developed countries in Asia, suicide has become a leading cause of death.<br /><br />And whereas childhood malnutrition was the number one risk factor for early death in 1990, it is now down to eighth place - behind obesity.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jessica Baldwin reports from London.
