Obesity experts are to start looking at the similarities between smoking and obesity at the Fags and Fat seminar in Wellington today.
One in three Kiwi adults are overweight, while one in four are obese.
Cancer Society health promotion manager Jan Pearson says the success of tobacco control over the last couple of years needs to be looked at as ways to fight obesity.
She says while the seminar will look at similarities between smoking and over-eating; she says obesity poses heftier problems.
“The thing with food is it’s so much more complex, because it’s so tied up in social and cultural ways of doing things,” she says.
Dr Pearson is calling for some clear policy direction from the Government on obesity prevention.
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