Global Health

Obesity, Car Travel, Climate Change: Linked?

June 11, 2008
Source: Lancet 371:1661 May 17-23, 2008
Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards

Phil Edwards, London School of Hyugiene and Tropical Medicine
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Obesity Linked to Motor Transport And Climate Change
Peter Goodwin questions Phil Edwards of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about “competition between stomachs and petrol tanks” discussed in a letter he and his colleague Ian Roberts have written to the medical magazine: The Lancet.


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