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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/women-feet-on-bathroom-scale-diet-concept.jpg2000700Obesity has emerged as the defining public health issue of our time. Worldwide, over two billion people are overweight or obese. And things are likely to get worse. As noted in a 2015 report in the Lancet, “No country to date has reversed its obesity epidemic.” A 2014 study on the global prevalence of obesity […]