OVERWEIGHT is associated with obvious aesthetic, social and mechanical liabilities and has been incriminated as a health hazard associated with a wide variety of diseases. The nutrition education problem with which most Western countries are concerned, is how behaviour and attitudes can be influenced in order to reduce the prevalence of overweight, whilst maintaining optimum nutrient intakes; since our appetites for food are no longer commensurate with the energy expenditure involved in our life style.
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