NY Times Addresses Environmental Causes of Obesity
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NWHF Staff
| Posted on: September 13th, 2011
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Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company
The New York Times has now reported on how we perceive obesity now as environmentally affected, and not just about personal responsibility and education. While the public health community has known this for a long time, this piece, including research from the Lancet out of the UK, provides some good information about how we got here and what it might take to get us out of this mess.
“As has happened with smoking,” Jane Brody writes, “it will take many years, a slew of different tactics and the political will to overcome powerful lobbying by culpable industries to turn the problem around and begin to bring the prevalence of overweight and obesity back to the levels of the 1970s.”
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