Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives: Caring for Our Patients and Ourselves 2014

Physicians, nutrition professionals, economists and politicians, with unprecedented unity, are warning that recent increases in obesity and diabetes rates are creating extraordinary public health challenges nationally and globally. According to a 2005 Institute of Medicine report: "The great advances of genetics and biomedical discoveries could be more than offset by the burden of illness, disability and death caused by too many people eating too much and moving too little over their lifetime."