title: Obesity epidemic: time to swallow the frog.
abstract: Mark Twain once said, "If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long." I believe that members of the healthcare community have been staring at the obesity epidemic for too long.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. andersen@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Ross E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Andersen