Obesity epidemic may have roots in 1950s

Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 15:00 in Psychology & Sociology

 Food has changed in the last five decades. Obesity rates soared in the 1980s because a generation of young women decades earlier smoked, spurned breast-feeding and restricted their weight during numerous, closely spaced pregnancies.

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