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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "obesity epidemic"
One in 5 Kids Is Obese, Yet Congress Is More Concerned With Protecting Profits Than Kids' Health
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. May 11, 2012.
Food and media corporations use campaign donations, attacks on science and the threat of smear campaigns to kill voluntary food marketing guidelines.
Doctors Push Cholesterol Drugs on Kids
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2008.
The obesity epidemic is largely of our own making. The solution has to come from healthy activities, not the pharmaceutical industry.