Despite isolated areas of improvement, no country to date has reversed its obesity epidemic.
Governments, together with a broad range of stakeholders, need to act urgently to decrease …

The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for four decades, yet sustained prevention
efforts have barely begun. An emerging science that uses quantitative models has provided …

The search for effective ways of dealing with obesity has centred on biological research and
clinical management. However, obesity needs to be conceptualized more broadly if the …

The simultaneous increases in obesity in almost all countries seem to be driven mainly by
changes in the global food system, which is producing more processed, affordable, and …

The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of
new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature …

CURRENTLY, ONE-THIRD OF CHILDREN AND TWO-thirds of adults in the United States
are over-weight or obese; this trend has persisted for the last decade and shows no sign of …

Chinese society is making efforts to address the rising obesity and chronic disease
epidemic. 3 In this context, in 2015, two of us (YW and YY) initiated a project that aimed to …

Prevention of obesity requires policies that work. In this Series paper, we propose a new
way to understand how food policies could be made to work more effectively for obesity …

Public mobilisation is needed to enact obesity-prevention policies and to mitigate reaction
against their implementation. However, approaches in public health focus mainly on …

Background: The obesity epidemic has been growing steadily across the whole world, and
so far not a single country has been able to reverse it. The cause of obesity is stated by the …