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World-wide action needed to reverse 40 years of rising obesity epidemic

Obesity has been on the rise for some 40 years and will continue to rise for 40 more if governments around the world do not take decisive, policy-driven action, according to Deakin University obesity experts. Researchers with Deakin’s WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention Professor Boyd Swinburn and Dr Gary Sacks, and their colleagues, have […] … learn more→