Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare

Maybe, when it comes to finding a way out of a global crisis of obesity, we’re just thinking too small.

The best way to fight the obesity epidemic is to tackle
it and the problems of malnutrition and climate change
 at the same time, experts argue in Lancet.

Maybe the steps needed to reverse a pandemic of unhealthy weight gain are the same as those needed to solve two other crises of human health: malnutrition and climate change.

So instead of trying to tackle each of these problems individually, public health experts recommend that we lash the three together.

In a treatise published Sunday in the British medical journal Lancet, a multinational commission argues that consumers, business leaders and policymakers must focus their efforts on steps that address at least two of these crises at a time. Only then can they can resolve this trio of emergencies fast and fully enough to make a difference, they wrote.

And no, the experts added: Tackling climate change, world hunger and obesity all at once is not an overreach

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