#428: Food Environments
Sigma Nutrition Radio
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The Importance of a Whole Population Approach to Obesity
With obesity, there's obviously so many different factors that go into it. There can be helpful whole population approaches, but they can lack specificity and miss the most vulnerable groups in society. Targeted approaches would look to actual identify specific vulnerable sub groups and have interventions that can really hone in an target on specific groups. And then we have the potential for down stream or up stream, or top down or bottom up interventions. Most of the evidence now points strongly toward a top down or upstream intervention on policy and environmental change driven by responsible and effective government as being the most effective.
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