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wow magazine Published this article In modern history the only country to have lost weight collectively (average of all adults) was Cuba. This was in early 90s the Soviet Union had collapsed and the average consumption of calories by Cubans fell from 3000-3200 to about 2400. Embargo from the US led to food and fuel shortage and even the public transport buses stopped running. Castro declared it as a periodo especial (special period). It included food rationing promotion of small scale gardening and distribution of more than a million Chinese made cycles. Not surprisingly people lost weight (5.5 kg on avg) and national averages for Diabetes and heart disease dropped. This phenomenon even made it to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) highlighting how eating lesser and moving more could be used as a population-based intervention wow magazine hyderabad buy.