--- --- # How to Help Your Family Beat Obesity by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 27, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 27, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**To lower your family’s odds of obesity, cook meals home — and skip TV at dinner.**](https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/03/23/family-meals/) By Misti Crane at the _Ohio State University_ **2\.** [**The age of Brexit and Trump are proving Francis Fukuyama right about ‘the end of history.’**](https://aeon.co/amp/essays/was-francis-fukuyama-the-first-man-to-see-trump-coming) By Paul Sagar in _Aeon_ **3\.** [**To make his inherited war on terror work, Trump shouldn’t forget about al Qaeda.**](http://www.aei.org/publication/a-new-strategy-against-isis-and-al-qaeda/) By Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan at the _American Enterprise Institute_ **4\.** [**News is not Netflix. Why personalization sometimes doesn’t work.**](http://digiday.com/media/news-not-netflix-personalizations-appeal-remains-uncertain-publishers/) By Max Willens in _Digiday_ **5\.** [**Your fingerprint isn’t more secure than your password. We need new biometrics.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/new-biometrics/520695/) By Kaveh Waddell in the _Atlantic_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: How to Help Your Family Beat Obesity ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4713855/how-to-help-your-family-beat-obesity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4713855/how-to-help-your-family-beat-obesity/"},"headline":"How to Help Your Family Beat Obesity","datePublished":"2017-03-27T16:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:58.578Z","description":"These are today's best ideas.","url":"https://time.com/4713855/how-to-help-your-family-beat-obesity/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","History","Innovation","Netflix","News","Obesity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4713855/how-to-help-your-family-beat-obesity/","name":"How to Help Your Family Beat Obesity"}}]}] ```