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According to a report by the Cambridge Trans Fat Task Force, the decision to ban artificial trans fat was based on scientific evidence linking trans fat to many health problems—including diabetes, heart disease, and obesity??as well as the desire to protect consumers, who may not know the trans fat content of meals prepared outside the home...
Such a study appears to suggest at least one promising avenue of confronting youth obesity??changing zoning laws to prevent fast-food restaurants from opening near schools. By reducing access to unhealthful foods, schools can at least promote nutritious choices during school hours. Indeed, there is precedent within schools themselves, where soft drinks have often been eliminated from vending machines and more healthful options have been introduced in the school cafeterias...
...especially since students are not the only customers to whom these restaurants cater. Restaurateurs argue that such a policy would be unfair and harm the local economy by pushing out profitable business. Lawmakers, however, must adopt a longer-term view. In 2000, the cost of treating diseases resulting from obesity??measured in insurance costs, Medicare, and Medicaid—came to the grand sum of $117 billion. These are costs that come back to affect all Americans in the form of rising insurance premiums and a struggling health-care system and are enough to outweigh short-term business...
...people accumulate body fat in the abdomen—what we call central obesity, or apple obesity??those people are more at risk than people with fat in their hips or thighs—peripheral, or pear, obesity,” says Kahn, the section chief on obesity at Joslin Diabetes Center and a Harvard Medical School professor...
Harvard researchers reported last week that an obesity prevention program tested in Massachusetts middle schools may be preventing more than just obesity??the curriculum appears to be stopping nascent eating disorders as well, at least among girls. Compared to girls in middle schools without obesity prevention programs, the study found a two-thirds decrease in self-induced vomiting and the abuse of diet pills and laxatives among girls at schools that implemented a two-year health program called “5-2-1-Go!” “The protective effect we found for girls...