Maybe, when it comes to finding a way out of a global crisis of obesity, we’re just thinking too small.
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| 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
Read the story from The Los Angeles Times by Melissa Healy - “Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare.”
