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Learning From Our Past To Help Save Our Future: Historical Public Health Crises And How These Lessons Will Help Solve Obesity, Kate M. Emminger
Learning From Our Past To Help Save Our Future: Historical Public Health Crises And How These Lessons Will Help Solve Obesity, Kate M. Emminger
Kate M Emminger
The obesity epidemic continues to plague the United States. Debates regarding strategies to solve the obesity crisis are constant but little has been accomplished by public health officials. Obesity is a multi-faceted, stigmatized problem, but it is not beyond the reach of public health. To prove that public health strategies must be utilized to solve the obesity crisis, this paper makes a comparative analysis between past successful public health campaigns and the obesity epidemic. Enlightening parallels exist between the bubonic plague, tobacco cessation and obesity. The bubonic plague parallels obesity because the plague lacked a pill or vaccine cure, was …