Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
After obesity rates in the United States began soaring in the 1980s, federal, state and local governments started to push back.
Calorie counts were mandated for food packages and in many restaurants. School lunches were made healthier. Unhealthful trans fats were phased out.
Yet American waistlines continued to swell, with two-thirds of adults and one-third of children now overweight or obese ? a major factor in the country?s health-care crisis, because obesity can trigger expensive chronic illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...portion-size/2012/06/02/gJQA4wzi9U_story.html
Calorie counts were mandated for food packages and in many restaurants. School lunches were made healthier. Unhealthful trans fats were phased out.
Yet American waistlines continued to swell, with two-thirds of adults and one-third of children now overweight or obese ? a major factor in the country?s health-care crisis, because obesity can trigger expensive chronic illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...portion-size/2012/06/02/gJQA4wzi9U_story.html