It's time to serve up some big incentives to curb obesity
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
To combat the alarming obesity rate, the Institute of Medicine says the U.S. needs to overhaul everything from farm policies to zoning laws. Clearly, doing nothing isn't an option.Americans eat too damn much. And we all pay a rising cost for this gluttony in the form of higher insurance premiums and lost productivity.
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