Conservativation
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According to cons source 1 in 6 children are obese in the USA. I don't think things are any better in England. However I'm not sure this is mainly due to restaurants. There should be healthier options for children and I think over here they have really taken to that. However people don't eat out 7 days a week do they? I know when I was a child eating out was a treat and we only ever got to go on birthdays. It's more important what they feed their children at home. If they give them chicken nuggets and chips every day at home they are the problem.
Blaming 3rd parties, restaurants and schools etc for obesity in my opinion actually contributes to the obesity problem, as a mindset. it avoids owning the matter. Sure Im all for having better choices, however I cannot go along with foisting obesity fault on 3rd parties, much the same as inumerable behavioral choices we seem to blame on 3rd parties in this country as we drift farther from personal responsibility.
Even some of the comments Ive read here seem to me to be deflecting responsibility from what , at least the CDC thinks, is a big problem. Instead of talking about all the exceptions as to why this isnt their fault, that isnt really obesity, this obese person is healthier than this healthy weight person, healthy folks make idolatry and exercise sometimes, etc etc. its high time to just tell it like it is. We do not worry about hurting the feelings of substance abusers as we speak frankly about what makes it tick, how to defeat it, etc. Imagine if each time substance abuse came up, the conversation truly was mostly about what is not substance abuse but is incorrectly being lumped in. Society seems to have passed the part about accountability on the topic of weight.
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