the obesity epidemic affects each and every person in our nation, and this uniquely american idea that an individual is solely responsible for their own well-being is unrealistic. we really need to make some big changes or we are headed for failure.
fit people are more economically productive than obese people. so, solutions we could be looking into:
education. this, in my mind, is the most important. P.E. classes in public schools should be structured more specifically to teach students the fitness skills they need to lose weight. lifting weights is difficult if you've never done it before. people don't understand how exactly cardio is supposed to work, what heart rates to aim for and for how long. HIIT should be taught, and people should be taught weight-bearing exercises (lifting) with proper form. also nutrition education is a joke in this country and it's so sad that there are candy shops and soda vending machines in every high school. education efforts should go beyond children, too. we need community outreach programs, and frequent ads on TV and youtube reminding people of the economic costs of obesity. the government was able to successfully (and rightfully) demonize tobacco companies, and now it's time to radically shift public opinion on junk foods.
healthcare professionals doing their part. guess this is more education, but a lot of the time doctors and nurses opt for the path of least resistance when dealing with fat people (i've seen it) and don't properly explain the consequences of being fat. or simply don't mention it at all. being fat is a MEDICAL CONDITION, not an acceptable lifestyle choice. and medical professionals need to be speaking up about this to fat people at every available opportunity.
heavy "sin taxes" on junk foods, and big fines for snackfood companies. they created this problem. it absolutely should be illegal to push candy on kids with cartoon characters advertising the stuff. again, we should treat unhealthy foods more like tobacco and regulate it more carefully. advertising shit foods at all should be banned imo.
subsidize healthy foods, instead of corn syrup and soy. not that corn and soy can't be healthy, but the result of us subsidizing these foods is a plethora of junk processed food made with soy protein and corn syrup. this needs to end.
and idk. there's a lot more but i'll let you guys talk now :P
Gabriel Sullivan
why do traps always type exactly how you do and use dumb smiley faces?
Cooper Cox
Obese people > crossdressers
Kayden Foster
what are you even talking about.
this is not solving the obesity epidemic! :O
please stay on topic.
Nathan Wood
>our nation not my nation hahaha burger
James Russell
end the fucking corn subsidies that make HFCS so dirt cheap
Jaxon Hernandez
if you live anywhere in the western world you're not much further behind m8
Anyways people have the right to be fat as long as I don't have to pay for their healthcare.
Luke Edwards
Literally the only thing keeping america fat is people being too lazy to do something about it. So many Americans are fat because they don't care enough to do something about it. They don't know or care to know that their food is chock full of sugar and shit.
The only solution is to make fatties care somehow, like by jacking up their health care prices unless they're below a certain bodyfat percentage for their age.
