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Key Findings

• Treating or preventing obesity would reduce rates of chronic disease and related health care costs, increase life expectancy, and improve birth outcomes.
• Residential neighborhoods affect obesity rates by providing access to healthy and unhealthy foods and opportunities for physical activity.
• It is not clear whether building more supermarkets in areas lacking access to healthy foods would help curb obesity.
• Improving school meals may not help curb childhood obesity if food outlets surrounding schools make unhealthy food easy to get.