TY - JOUR
T1 - The food industry's solution to the obesity epidemic
T2 - take a walk.
AU - Myers, Douglas J.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - An internationally known obesity expert recently delivered a lecture on strategies for reversing the obesity epidemic at a large public university. His view was that a reduction in exercise, not an increase in intake, has caused the epidemic. He stated that dieting strategies have largely been failures because they asked too much of people. A better solution, he suggested, is to teach people to pursue the more attainable goal of increasing their caloric output by a mere 100 calories a day. To achieve this, he designed a Web-based program, sponsored by a giant soda corporation and an international agribusiness conglomerate, which instructs individuals to take a walk.
AB - An internationally known obesity expert recently delivered a lecture on strategies for reversing the obesity epidemic at a large public university. His view was that a reduction in exercise, not an increase in intake, has caused the epidemic. He stated that dieting strategies have largely been failures because they asked too much of people. A better solution, he suggested, is to teach people to pursue the more attainable goal of increasing their caloric output by a mere 100 calories a day. To achieve this, he designed a Web-based program, sponsored by a giant soda corporation and an international agribusiness conglomerate, which instructs individuals to take a walk.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748858518&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2190/7054-AFFJ-4WU3-3KFY
DO - 10.2190/7054-AFFJ-4WU3-3KFY
M3 - Article
C2 - 16867888
AN - SCOPUS:33748858518
SN - 1048-2911
VL - 16
SP - 13
EP - 16
JO - New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS
JF - New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS
IS - 1
ER -