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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 2000;284:819-820.

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Olympia, Greece—With much of the world's population rapidly becoming overweight and potentially subject to debilitating disorders, physicians, public health experts, and nutritionists representing more than a dozen organizations have agreed to establish a worldwide network to attempt to reverse the trend. The goal of the Collaborating Network on Genetics, Nutrition, Exercise, and Health is to precisely define approaches that can be used to prevent and treat disease, particularly chronic disorders such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, some forms of cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Peter Howe, PhD, professor of nutrition at Wollongong University, New South Wales, Australia, described this effort to strengthen research on the effects of nutrition and exercise and develop effective strategies for change at the Fourth International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness. Aptly, across the road from the conference center here are the remains of the site of the ancient Olympic Games, which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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