Percentage of obese adults, 2019 (Politico map, CDC data) |
But the federal government has "no national strategy, no systems-wide approach, even as researchers increasingly recognize that obesity is a disease that is driven not by lack of willpower, but by a modern society and food system that’s almost perfectly designed to encourage the overeating of empty calories, along with more stress, less sleep and less daily exercise — setting millions on a path to poor health outcomes that’s extremely difficult to break from," Bustillo reports. "The only high-level Biden administration official who routinely talks about the issue is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack — and he brings it up often. Vilsack likes to point out in his speeches, for example, that the government now spends more treating diabetes than the entire budget of the USDA, which is about $150 billion."
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