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Dora Anne Mills, M.D., M.P.H., �Թϱ��� vice president for clinical affairs, was interviewed for a column on diabetes and obesity in the Sept. 18, Bangor Daily News. 

Mills, former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said interventions are helping to build public awareness of obesity and sedentary lifestyles as contributors to disease and disability.

“It’s taken decades for the United States and Maine to build obesity into the fabric of our society,” said Mills. “And I suspect it will take decades to build health into the fabric of our society. We have a long, long way to go.”