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...daily lives of children, who ride in cars where their grandparents might have walked and entertain themselves with an array of sedentary electronic pastimes that didn't even exist a generation ago. It shouldn't be surprising that many overfed, underactive kids lose the battle with their weight. "The environmental factors are much more compelling toward obesity than they were 30 years ago," says William Dietz, director of the division of nutrition and physical activity...
So if an obesogenic environment is responsible for our national weight problem, how can we fix our surroundings so we fix our health? "We have to realize that we're not going to get anywhere in getting people to eat healthy and be more physically active until we create an...
Perhaps it's American to take caveat emptor as our creed, to let the junk food we so clearly love flow freely into the marketplace--and if you can't be bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own...
There was a time when that alone would have been enough to keep the 19-year-old star of the movie Hairspray out of the fan magazines and off the posters decorating grade-schoolers' bedroom walls. But that time may at last be ending. The national obesity epidemic did not...
Your article was absolutely on target. It is essential that the U.S. develop new sustainable sources of nonpolluting energy. You have made clear the interrelationships among the availability of that energy and international politics (and the need for the U.S. to operate without one hand tied behind its back), the...