OBESITY CAMPAIGNS FEATURE – EU AND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-OBESITY CAMPAIGNS ASSESSMENT
March 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
OBESITY is a becoming one off the most important public health concerns worldwide and as a result, the best brains of the biggest international organisations have been developing a spate of policy ideas to fight this problem. A key example is the recent European Commission green paper on the issue, which laments the spread of obesity and invites ideas to counter it. The background to it is familiar. European Union (EU) obesity levels are increasing at an alarming rate with up to 27% of men and 38% of women now at risk, it says, while the number of ...
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