The runaway weight gain train: too many accelerators, not enough brakes.

Boyd Swinburn, Garry Egger

Journal: BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2004;329(7468):736-9

PMID: 15388619

Abstract

Obesity seems to be perpetuated by a series of vicious cycles, which, in combination with increasingly obesogenic environments, accelerate weight gain and represent a major challenge for weight management

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