[WATCH]: Obesity killing more people than hunger

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. It found that the average lifespan for women is highest in Japan -- at 86 - and lowest in Haiti at 44. Men in Iceland live to 80 on average, but in Haiti the figure's just 33. Heart attacks and strokes are still the biggest killers -- accounting for one in four deaths worldwide. Alcohol abuse is on the rise -- killing a record number of people, particularly young men in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The report labels Latin America "the homicide belt" as a rising number of men are being killed by violence. In developed countries in Asia, suicide has become a

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