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Review
. 2005 Apr 16;330(7496):898-900.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7496.898.

Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking

Derek Yach  1 , Martin McKee, Alan D Lopez, Tom Novotny
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Review

Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking

Derek Yach et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

On behalf of Oxford Vision 2020, a partnership dedicated to preventing the forecast worldwide growth of chronic diseases, the authors suggest that 12 lessons learnt from attempts to control tobacco smoking could be used to tackle the chronic disease epidemics evolving from unhealthy diets and a lack of physical activity

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Increasingly, developing countries need to tackle obesity and associated chronic diseases as well as hunger and undernutrition Credit: GILDEN/MAGNUM BRUCE
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