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Do we finally have a solution to the obesity epidemic?

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 08, 2012

In order to reverse the American obesity epidemic that has left 1 out of 3 children and 2 out of 3 adults overweight, the nation needs to pool its resources to implement a number of key steps, according to 462-page report issued Tuesday by the influential Institute of Medicine.

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