As promised, here is the crazy article I was talking about a few weeks ago which suggests that overarching causes/treatments for obesity may be much more complex and insidious than simply "eat less, exercise more." Among my favorite depressing yet little researched topic - reduction of variation in ambient air temperature. Unfortunately, this was the only article I could find on the topic, so take the findings with a grain of non-replicated salt.
Second, I wanted to share this infographic on how fortifying foods with vitamins/minerals can improve literally millions of lives in the developing world & the US. It brought home to me how cost- and results-effective population-level public health interventions can be, even though they rarely have the sex appeal of higher tech, "lifesaving" technologies. Unfortunately, sometimes we point to successes like these as solutions for the developing world and fail to see how effective they can and should be here at home.
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