a big fat problem

May 2, 2011

epidemic
if you live in an affluent area and generally read healthy living blogs for entertainment, i am going to hazard a guess that you may not understand just how bad the obesity epidemic has gotten in our country.

[although if you’ve taken a recent trip to disney world, you may have gotten a wake-up call. it’s not such a ‘small’ world after all!]

over the course of this conference, there have been a lot of interesting talks geared at the pediatric endocrinologist: we had a great lecture on craniopharyngioma resections given by a famous neurosurgeon, and i loved the update on sexual differentiation disorders [they have fascinated me ever since reading middlesex!]. however, the #1 topic?

from a ad campaign
how fat we all are [and not even just in the US!], and how bad it is. ironically, this talk is being held in the only state with an obesity rate of

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