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SUBMITTER: Hruby A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4859313 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PharmacoEconomics 20150701 7
The epidemic of overweight and obesity presents a major challenge to chronic disease prevention and health across the life course around the world. Fueled by economic growth, industrialization, mechanized transport, urbanization, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and a nutritional transition to processed foods and high-calorie diets over the last 30 years, many countries have witnessed the prevalence of obesity in its citizens double and even quadruple. A rising prevalence of childhood obesit ...[more]