May 14th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From The Columbus Dispatch?..
Everyone has seen the news reports about obesity in the United States: fresh statistics from the latest study, read with professional detachment, as images of pudgy bodies cross the screen ? their faces blurred or their heads just out of the camera frame.Such stories have been delivered for years, becoming as much a staple of TV news as weather reports.
Obesity represents an epidemic and perhaps the biggest U.S. health problem.
So goes the message that HBO pounds home with singular effectiveness in the four-part multidisciplinary documentary The Weight of the Nation. Produced by Sheila Nevins and John Hoffman, the result blames the food and advertising industries as well as public officials for not only failing to fix the problem but also making it worse. The Weight of the Nation essentially writes a prescription for the country and its health and economic future.
Should nothing change, 42?percent of Americans will have become obese by 2030, according to a report released last week during an obesity conference at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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