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Prof Beddington commissioned the study as part of the Government Office for Science's Foresight programme - the influential Foresight reports look ahead to highlight emerging trends in science and technology with a view to informing policies across government departments.
The group commences its work with a review of similar documents drawn up by allied countries and other foresight reports on similar topics (for example, by the various United Nations and World Bank agencies, etc).
The meta-scan inputs were three-fold: (1) Targeted search for recently published (within 5 years) Foresight reports by member and partner governments; (2) An extensive search of academic databases; (3) An open scan of internet sources and social media.
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The heart of the problem, said the seminal Foresight report in 2007, is the "obesogenic environment".
That's what the UK's Foresight report argued a few months ago, calling for the oxymoronic "sustainable intensification".
By 2050, warned the seminal Foresight report of 2007, the UK could hit 60% adult obesity if nothing is done.
The wider costs of obesity are expected to more than double to £37m by 2025, according to 2008 Foresight report.
Professor David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said: "We're now seven years on from the Foresight Report.
The Foresight report concluded that international policy has an important role to play here – today, despite plentiful supplies of food globally, almost one billion people are undernourished.
The floods foresight report in which he sounded the warning explained what King meant by "sustainable" approaches to flood and coastal management, and it doesn't mean dredging.
It is, as the Foresight report said in 2007, the "obesogenic environment" that is to blame, and that has to be tackled on many fronts at the same time – food, transport, activity levels, planning and, importantly, education.
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