Asia counts the costs of its growing middle-class obesity bulge

BANGKOK -- Waridha Phosangar suspected her weight was the reason she was unable to find a job after graduation.

when she left university in Thailand in August 2018, she weighed 107 kilograms. Given her 1.7-meter height, her body mass index (BMI) -- a standard ratio relating weight to height -- was far above the level of 30 that the World Health Organization considers the threshold of obesity.