Coincidental with the NY Times article this morning on food companies funding scientific research and advocacy to shift the focus of obesity prevention to physical activity, this weekend we posted a slide deck of info-graphix on obesity and changes in the food environment over the past decades. These changes include increases in the average calories per serving of recipes in the Joy of Cooking and increases in the total number of calories available per person through the food system in the U.S.
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