Brussels, 29/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - Excess weight, obesity and diet-related diseases were approaching epidemic proportions, said MEPs on Thursday 25 September in adopting the report by Alessandro Foglietta (UEN, Italy) by the overwhelming majority of 536 votes to 37, with 20 abstentions. Parliament recommended a multi-level, holistic approach to tackle obesity, and pointed out that there were many European research, health, education and life-long learning programmes that could help to...