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Obesity: everyone’s problem

According to data released by the polling group Gallup, the majority of adult residents in all 50 U.S. states are classified as either overweight or obese. The trendlines of obesity and overweight in the United States aren’t new, and it seems as though a day doesn’t go by without cable news reporting a new startling obesity statistic. Just this week, the CDC also released information on the most obese states in the United States (Mississippi leads the pack, with 34.9 percent of its residents considered obese in 2011).
Posted on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 By SharedPurpose
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Food Day in the U.S. Highlights the Hunger-Obesity Paradox

Melissa Musiker is a registered dietician and a member of APCO’s Washington, D.C., health policy team.Today is Food Day in the United States. Food Day is an event coordinated by the Center for Science in the Public Interest with the goal of bringing together eaters of all types “to push for healthy, affordable food produced [...]
Posted on Monday, October 24th, 2011 By SharedPurpose
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Blog Action Day 2011 – What’s on the Menu?

Happy Blog Action Day 2011, SP readers! Coincidentally, today is also World Food Day. So what better topic for Blog Action Day than food. Take a look around the internet today and you’ll see thousands of posts related to food. Surely you can pick up a few recipe tips, but today bloggers are using their platforms to talk about some of the biggest food-related issues of our day: sustainable agriculture, food insecurity, nutrition, obesity, food safety, and dozens of other subjects.
Posted on Sunday, October 16th, 2011 By Andrea Shatzman
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