MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Caroline Franck, MSc
Dvisions of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings of the study?
Answer: We found that, although subsidies are needed to protect farmers from production risks, the current allocation of payments encourages the sustained overproduction of a handful of grains and oilseeds. Overproduction contributes to making the end products cheaper, which are then processed into energy-dense and high-fat/sugar foods.
Obesity should be treated as a systems problem, in which farm production plays an important role.
