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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(1):14-16; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi251
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Commentary

Commentary: Obesity is not a newly recognized public health problem—a commentary of Breslow's 1952 paper on ‘public health aspects of weight control’

Rebecca K Simmons and Nicholas J Wareham*

MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK

* Corresponding author. MRC Epidemiology Unit, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL, UK. E-mail: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

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The size and rapidity of the recent increase in the prevalence of obesity is paralleled only by the massive media interest in the causes and implications of these changes and the myriad number of proposed solutions. The availability of information on obesity is overwhelming, but there seems to be common consensus on three points; that obesity is an important public health problem, that the problem is getting worse and that the solution is simple: eat less and exercise more. And yet, although the changing prevalence is a recent phenomenon, obesity itself is not a new public health issue. In the classic paper reprinted in this edition of the journal, Breslow1 noted in 1952 that a substantial proportion of Americans . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Obesity, weight loss, and mortality
 

   What can we do about the obesity epidemic?
 

   Conclusion
 
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