12:14 PM
Lauren
Check out this interesting article in the NY times by Jane Brody, "Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out it's Cause." A new term I learned this week, "obesogenic environment" certainly applies here as she briefly reviews the changes in American's daily lives over the past few decades.
"Many environmental forces, from economic interests of the food and beverage industries to the way our cities and towns are built, have conspired to subvert the body’s natural ability to match calories in with calories out. And the solution to the nation’s most pressing health problem — the ever-rising epidemic of overweight and obesity at all ages — lies in the answer to this question: Why did this happen in the first place?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13brody.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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