Brownell: Do we have the will to change the American diet?

Posted May 16, 2011

Is there the political will to change the American diet?

That was the question posed by Yale University professor Kelly Brownell at the school’s annual Gaylord Anderson lecture.

Brownell noted that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has committed $100 million a year over five years to combat childhood obesity. Yet the food industry spends more than that per week, marketing junk food to children.

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