Barack Obama’s team presented policy designed to combat obesity epidemic

Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services Transition Team was presented with a series of nearly 50 legal and policy recommendations designed to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic.

The recommendations include such areas as the economic and social aspects of dietary behavior, ensuring equal access to healthy food and physical activities, food marketing regulations, and menu labeling laws.

The president-elect team suggests that a failure of federal obesity policy would have untenable public health and economic consequences.