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Let's drink (and eat) to our obese economic heroes
Author(s) -
Egger Garry J
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03340.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , promotion (chess) , media studies , political science , art , history , sociology , law , computer science , politics
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 7/21 December 2009 191 11/12 593-594 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Editorials stop consuming! Is this schizophrenic government policy? No, it’s Keynesian economics, currently being applied arou But how s nsible is a system that puts v st amounts treating a problem that it puts vast amounts of money Obesity depends on overconsumption — of foo effort-saving technology; hence, the fatter the po Although it is imperative to keep trying, the fight against obesity is unlikely to be successful until economists, politicians and health scientists agree on similar goals