European health ministers from 53 countries have banded together to take a stab at obesity, drafting the world's first charter to fight obesity.

The charter, approved in Istanbul, Turkey, was drafted by the World Health Organization in consultation with its European member states, according to an Associated Press report.

The charter commits governments to things like improving the availability of healthy foods and adopting regulations for safer roads to promote cycling and walking.

Those may be the easy part. The charter also calls for controls of marketing to children, which is a bit of a sticky wicket for food corporations.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com