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Number one solution to obesity problem

Anthem

Active Member
What is the number one solution in your opinion?

Education by school? Cultural influece? Parent's responsibility? Health care? Food industry?
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
All the above, really. Schools do need to offer better nutritional education (we just aren't taught how to eat right anymore), often times parents do need to be parents and tell their kids no, a shifting mentality that the best health care is preventative care, and of course there is the food industry which puts tons of garbage in food and turns food into "food," with a culture that accepts it with varying acceptance.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Diet and exercise.

The biggest contributing factor is the fact that convenient and inexpensive foods typically tend to be unhealthy. When it comes to healthy choices, you often have to choice between convenience and expense. Learning to cook and making a routine of preparing healthy meals helps with weight management.
 
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Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
How do you get millions of people to diet and exercise and to make the new generations healthier?
We can crucify Ronald to start with.
That isn't true. Healthy food is available cheap too.
Not as cheap as cheap food. Dollar frozen pizzas, boxes of spaghetti, and other carb-heavy and/or highly processed options are about it when you are poor.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
That isn't true. Healthy food is available cheap too.

Of course it is, but you usually sacrifice convenience; i.e. a lot of time and preparation goes into it, and a lot of people go the easy route which contributes to their unhealthy diet.
 

Anthem

Active Member
We can crucify Ronald to start with.

Not as cheap as cheap food. Dollar frozen pizzas, boxes of spaghetti, and other carb-heavy and/or highly processed options are about it when you are poor.
How bout fruit and vegetables.
 

Anthem

Active Member
Of course it is, but you usually sacrifice convenience; i.e. a lot of time and preparation goes into it, and a lot of people go the easy route which contributes to their unhealthy diet.
Fruit and vegetables dont necessarily require prepering.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
But as (a) nation(s). To think of obesity as a problem of the population in general. How do you get millions of people to diet and exercise and to make the new generations healthier?
There's really not much you can do to change another person's lifestyle. They have to want it themselves, and want it enough to put in the sacrifice and effort.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
We can crucify Ronald to start with.

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Anthem

Active Member
There's really not much you can do to change another person's lifestyle. They have to want it themselves, and want it enough to put in the sacrifice and effort.
But surely we can affect it as a society. We made ourselves fat - we can take it back.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
If a solution exists it will probably involve Nazis, I'm sad to say. :(
I don't have the links, but basically I have read from different accounts that at least starting with Gen X and continuing with Millennial that fast food is becoming less popular, with both generations forcing the giant chains to change things up to make up for decreased revenue.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
On the main campus at Google you can buy fruit in the vending machines and it's cheap, maybe 25 cents. And you can buy a candy bar - for maybe $4.
 
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