Obesity is complex. Common narratives miss the full story

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We know obesity is a fiendishly complex problem yet we are suckers for a convincing story, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation

There is a narrative that runs through health discourse that has been repeated so many times that no one really thinks about it. In the US and UK, obesity prevalence was fairly constant until about 1980, then started to skyrocket. The burning question is: what changed around that time to cause such a seismic shift?

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