The New Battle of the Bulge

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Editor-at-large Claudia Wallis traveled to New Haven, Conn., and New York City's Greenwich Village to meet Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle, two of a group of scientists she came to think of as the Obesity Warriors. "I was struck by how passionate they are," she recalls. "It reminds me of the scientists I met in the early days of the environmental movement."

As the stories came in from the field--from Lisa Takeuchi Cullen on the link between poverty and obesity, from Jeffrey Kluger on the sociology of eating, from Daren Fonda on marketing to kids, from Eric Roston on the corn industry, from Richard Lacayo on community efforts to encourage walking--Janet Michaud, Cristina Scalet and Kristina Dell collaborated on design, photography and graphics to make the visual elements as informative as the text.

The work of organizing the summit, which begins June 2, fell largely to Jennifer Newton and Suzanne O'Leary of the Van Heyst Group, Kathy Peterson and Meredith Welch of TIME Marketing, and Diana Pearson, TIME's director of public affairs.

For daily reports from Williamsburg and links to a webcast of the proceedings, visit time.com/obesity