News moms generated an excellent post yesterday on President Clinton's latest efforts to influence junk food producers.
While Clinton's efforts at tackling obsesity should be applauded, it's hard to know how much of the celebrity "obesity bashing" isn't an attempt to get press. This is nothing more than micromanagement of a massive problem that begins squarely at home with all of us. I see this in the academic research realm ... everyone wants a piece of the obesity epidemic and much of it is handwaving for funding. Until families begin more serious restriction of their intake and undertake serious increase in caloric expenditure, the epidemic will be with us.