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Obesity
New obesity study findings recently were published by W.P.T. James and co-researchers
April 22nd, 2008
"Most policy makers do not yet understand that the obesity epidemic is a normal population response to the dramatic reduction in the demand for physical activity and the major changes in the food supply of countries over the last 40 years. A national focus on individual behaviour reflects a failure to confront the facts," investigators in London, the United Kingdom report. "Thus, the changes in food supply and physical environment are socioeconomically driven, and the health sector simply picks up the consequences. Urbanization alone in China has reduced daily energy expenditure by about 300-400 kcal d(-1) and cycling/bussing or going to work by car determines another...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-22)
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