Sep 25, 2008

CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses obesity trends and solutions in this Voice of America piece. “‘In the last 50 to 60 years, in the post world war era, in both the U.S. and the other high-income countries, we’ve had a slow shift in the way we live so we’ve become more sedentary, our diets have become much richer and sweeter and we have, in the process, become much more heavy,’ Popkin said.” (Bordbar, Babak. September 23, 2008. Biking to beat obesity. In Voice of America News.)

To read it the entire article, click here:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-23-voa21.cfm

To see a video, click here:

http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2008_09/Video/wmv/BikingPt2-vb.wmv