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What America Can Teach the World About Defeating Obesity (Bloomberg Businessweek)

March 10, 2014

From the article

Recent analysis by the Centers for Disease Control suggests America’s obesity epidemic may have peaked. From 2003 to 2012, overall obesity rates remained stable. Even better was a significant reduction in obesity for children between the ages of two and five. The rates dropped from 14 percent to 8 percent.

That’s good news for the U.S., but it should come as a relief to the developing world as well.

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