
Behavior & Society
Another Misguided ‘War’ on Obesity
Boris Johnson’s new campaign is focusing on personal responsibility rather than attacking poverty and inequality, the root causes of obesity
Chin Jou, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in American history and a health humanities scholar at the Charles Perkins Center (a diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity research center) at the University of Sydney.
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