The Obesity Epidemic

By Zoe Harcombe

Subjects: diets, dieting, weight loss, Nutrition policy, Government policy, obesity, low carbohydrate diets, food cravings, Reducing diets, Health aspects, Convenience foods, food intolerances, Social aspects, Food industry and trade, Obesity, allergies

Description: The Obesity Epidemic started in the 1980s - but why? The short answer is - we changed our diet advice. More accurately we did a U-turn in our diet advice. The Obesity Epidemic takes you through the actual documents that changed our diet advice, most importantly why the advice changed and what is stopping us from changing the advice back. This is a journey through the landmark turning points in the history of public health diet advice and the impact that this has had on obesity - and all the accompanying modern illnesses: heart disease; cancer; diabetes and the lack of well being that the average human suffers today.