Obesity and the decline of healthy eating

The obesity epidemic is fraught with challenges ranging from how to effectively encourage healthy lifestyle choices to making good foods available to everyone. Samuel Klein, MD, explains the many challenges of obesity.

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  • Is our environment causing obesity?

  • What factors have contributed to worldwide obesity?

  • Is diabetes preventable?

  • How do we fight obesity?

  • What can be done to reverse the obesity trend?

  • Is the obesity epidemic getting worse?

  • Why has the rate of obesity increased over the years?

  • What is obesity?

  • What can our society do to solve the obesity crisis?

  • Treating obesity to fight type 2 diabetes

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