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Governments need to implement policies to address the food environment to reverse obesity.
Policymakers should focus on comprehensive strategies to improve the food environment.
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To reverse obesity and its health consequences, governments need to consider ways to address the food environment through policies in education, agriculture, school meals, pricing, taxation and other means.
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The claim is based on a comprehensive approach to policy recommendations.
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Changing the diet of a nation: Population/regulatory strategies for a developed economy
Marion Nestle · Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2000
DOI 10.1046/j.1440-6047.2000.00179.x
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