April 18, 2008

The Global Epidemic of Obesity

Dear colleagues, this is also an update from Epidemiological Review Oxford Journal. Recent articles focus on obesity. Most full text or PDF files are provided for FREE... so just go for it ;)

The Global Epidemic of Obesity: an Overview. Benjamin Caballero - Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Epidemiologic Reviews 2007 29(1):1-5; doi:10.1093/epirev/mxm012
Available at: http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/1/1

".....This overview provides an introduction to this issue of Epidemiologic Reviews, highlighting, in historical perspective, key scientific aspects of obesity that are addressed by the 11 articles that follow. This compilation of reviews underscores the multidisciplinary nature of obesity research and the need to expand even further our scope to fully understand and confront the obesity epidemic.....".