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From Global News online:

Obesity affects more than one-third of all children in the Maritimes and two-thirds of all adults in the region.

The statistics are hard to ignore and are the focus of a conference in Halifax this week.

According to experts at the Conference on Recent Advances in the Prevention of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity, obesity and malnutrition are becoming a major problem in Canada, in part because it's too cheap to eat healthy and too expensive to make healthy choices.

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But Sara Kirk, the Canada Research Chair of Health at Dalhousie University, we can't think of it as more than a personal problem.

"Now we think of it as an individual problem, that people need to eat less and move more - and that is what they should be doing - but, actually it's very hard to do that in the environment that we live in now," she said.

She said we live in a society where "the healthy choice is actually the abnormal choice."

"We have an environment that's designed for cars... with food on every street corner," Kirk said.

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