The Nation - News from June 20, 1986

Americans are eating less but getting fatter, a panel of experts on obesity concluded. The doctors explained that Americans today are less physically active than they were 50 years ago, and “it’s clear Americans are eating a higher-fat diet,” said William Bennet, a dietary researcher at the Harvard University Medical School. The doctors, at a conference in New York sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, also said that obesity relates to environmental factors more than heredity.