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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(1):12-14; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi250
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’

Lester Breslow

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. E-mail: breslow@ph.ucla.edu

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My comment on the paper1 touches briefly on: (i) the context at the time of writing it, (ii) some important advances on the topic since that time, and (iii) the current obesity epidemic.

The paper appeared as part of a growing chronic disease control programme in the California Department of Public Health, which reflected recognition of the epidemiological transition, i.e. ascendancy of the chronic non-communicable diseases over the communicable diseases as the major health problems.2,3 In particular, cardiovascular disease had been expanding substantially during the first half of the century owing in considerable part to excessive weight among increasing numbers of people.

Not all public health leaders immediately accepted the idea being advanced that public health should become involved in chronic disease control. The California Director of Public Health first advised, when I initiated such a proposal in 1946, to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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