Distorted Food Supply to Blame for Skyrocketing Obesity Crisis; Food Companies Must Stop Using Cheaper Sugars, Starches & Oils, International Obesity Task Force Says

Posted in Diabetes Articles, Obesity News by Connie Bennett on October 27th, 2006
Almost on the eve of Halloween, the biggest candy-pushing day of the year, the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) delivered horrifying new obesity estimates for kids. Get ready to be downright frightened: Childhood obesity is expected to double by the end of the decade! And, this is, in part, due, the IOTF finds, to historic food policies which have led to distorted food supplies and prices, FoodNavigator.com/Europe reports. Just look at these alarming figures: By 2010, almost 287 million kids around the world will be obese, and by 2015, a whopping 700 million children will be weighing down the planet....
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