F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010 [Infographic/PDF]
Type: Report [PDF]Author/Source: Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2010.
Abstract:
Adult obesity rates increased in 28 states in the past year, and declined only in the District of Columbia (D.C.), according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010, a report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). This report has documented over the previous six years that efforts to address the skyrocketing rise of obesity rates and obesity related diseases have slowly been growing. Through implementing safer more accessible sidewalks and giving school menus more nutritional options the country has began to fight back. The report highlights troubling racial, ethnic, regional and income disparities in the nation's obesity epidemic.
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