ALJAZEERA: …According to the World Health Organisation, obesity affects hundreds of millions of people in both industrialised and developing nations. But the wide availability of cheap and fast food in the United States….
Physicians and patients I spoke with told me for decades obese people in the US were told their condition was a result of a lack of will power.
New data on obesity shows that view is changing. Increasingly, obesity is being looked upon by public health officials as a multifaceted affliction and not solely a product of poor decision making by one individual… (more)
