Government Ads Urge Americans To Shed Pounds.

Reports the United States government is about the begin a public-service advertising campaign aimed at educating Americans about obesity and persuade people to lose weight. Description and tone of advertisements that were created by the Ad Council; Recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) related to governmental action on the issue of obesity; Statistics related to obesity and its potential to cause death, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association."