Beyond Personal Choice: Understanding the Social and Environmental Drivers of Overweight and Obesity in Ghana

Overweight and obesity are rising rapidly in Ghana and the trend is especially concerning among women of reproductive age. While many people assume weight gain is simply about “eating too much and moving too little,” new research published by my former student (now my colleague) Maxwell Konlan (of Legon Hospital Dietherapy Unit) and his study team in Communications Medicine, a Nature journal, demonstrates that the situation is not that straightforward.

By Isaac Yeboah