Placing healthier foods for sale nearer people's home is a useful step towards making America a healthier nation, but the impact on overall eating habits, and ultimately the country's obesity epidemic, is not significant. A multi-faceted approach, including promotion, education, incentives, access to nearby sports facilities is required, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrote in Archives of Internal Medicine.With 100% certainty, the single approach of eating fewer Calories than are burned will work to solve all of the overweight/obesity epidemic.
The authors found that having grocery stores and bigger supermarkets nearby did not considerably alter people's eating habits.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
No Single Approach Will Solve America's Obesity Epidemic
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