Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in the United States
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 05:42
in Health & Medicine
Amsterdam, the Netherlands: New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake.
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