In the upcoming issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Redstone Global Center director Bill Dietz joins Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika for a submission to the journal’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Academy of Medicine. The Dietz and Kumanyika piece focuses on progress and opportunities for addressing the obesity pandemic. The authors assert that “it will be necessary to reimagine and reengineer systems that define modern life and to move away from the contexts that people often take for granted: an overabundance and the normative overconsumption of highly palatable processed and high-calorie convenience foods, motorized transportation, sedentary work and learning environments and entertainment, and companies whose profits depend on perpetuating these circumstances in both the general and highest-risk populations.” Read the full article at: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2029646