It may be fair to accuse President Felipe Calderon of many things during his six-year term that will come to an end on December 1, but should he take responsibility for what health advocates call an “obese environment” that has allegedly claimed 500,000 lives?
Under the banner of the Nutritional Health Alliance, representatives of civil society appeared before the National Human Rights Commission last week to expand upon a complaint filed in March 2010, slamming the federal government for allowing Mexico to become one of the highest ranked countries in the world for obesity and mortality from diabetes.
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