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Obesity: What’s the Environment Got To Do With It?
March 16, 2016, 7:00 PM
Free
Dr. Victoria Rogers will explore the relationship between weight, health, and obesity and how environmental factors can influence all three. Over the last four decades, obesity rates have tripled for children and adults. Over the same time period our environment as changed—less green space, more concrete, less small farms, more mega food producers, less physical activity in schools, and more sedentary time—and the list goes on. Rogers, director of Let’s Go at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center, will explore what has happened here in Maine and introduce some exciting programs aimed at combating the obesity epidemic.