Sentences with phrase «national epidemic of obesity»

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«Obesity is a national epidemic that affects millions of Americans,» Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

The national obesity epidemic has been rising at parallel rates with refined sugar consumption, mostly in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

The National Institute of Health, The American Cancer Association and other prestigious health groups have announced that there is an obesity epidemic in the U.S. Americans like to eat too much food, and food that is not good for them.

... because it's a crappy industrial product produced through weird enzymic processes, because it gets digested by the liver instead of the stomach, because it is part of our national corn - addiction, because it is so cheap that it is responsible for Big Gulps and the ever - sweetening of things like soup and ketchup, because it is the end product in our increasingly industrialized unsustainable food system and because it is at least in part responsible for the obesity epidemic...