From USA Today?..
What will it take to reverse the current obesity epidemic? Two-thirds of adults and a third of children in the USA are overweight or obese, government statistics show. Three national experts weighed in on what it will take to solve the obesity problem.
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Communities must experiment, urge healthy choices
?I am very confident we can reverse the obesity epidemic. I don?t think we are going to treat our way out of the epidemic with pills or surgery.
?We will solve this by empowering communities and individuals to make the healthier choices the easier choices.
?It starts with a healthy pregnancy, breast-feeding, early childhood healthy feeding. We are increasingly recognizing that early childhood experiences are very important for health throughout life.
?It?s crucial that communities try different things to reduce the obesity epidemic and that they rigorously study the impact of those efforts. Forty years ago, we didn?t know how to reduce the tobacco epidemic, but because communities tried different things, we now have a strong list of things that reduce tobacco use. We (the CDC) are helping dozens of communities try things and rigorously evaluating their impact. The more things we try, the more we?ll know how we can support people.
?We are seeing signs of hope. We are seeing communities throughout the U.S. that are seeing childhood obesity not only stabilize but decline. We are not out of the woods, but there is real progress.
?We can reverse the epidemic by making healthier choices easier at every stage of life and every place.?
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