Commentary: Obesity is not a newly recognized public health problem—a commentary of Breslow's 1952 paper on ‘public health aspects of weight control’

The size and rapidity of the recent increase in the prevalence of obesity is paralleled only by the massive media interest in the causes and implications of these changes and the myriad number of proposed solutions. The availability of information on obesity is overwhelming, but there seems to be common consensus on three points; that obesity is an important public health problem, that the problem is getting worse and that the solution is...