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Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone

  • Written by: Lennert Veerman, Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it aloneObesity is rising and so are the costs.Shutterstock

This is the first of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the second part here.

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