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Obesity is not an issue that we should ignore or see as something common today. Lately, the government has focused a lot on feeding children and more on schools so that they provide something healthy, which is fine, but they forget about adults. Because people are older does not mean that they make correct decisions regarding food and even less with respect to the type of marketing that is so great with junk food that it is inevitable for someone older to eat unhealthily. 7 out of 10 adults in the United States suffer from obesity, of which a high percentage of them in their childhood were not obese and all this because they allow this to be normal, this being one of the significant causes of death, obesity.
The Problem With Focusing on Childhood Obesity
By Thomas A. Farley
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/opinion/the-problem-with-focusing-on-childhood-obesity.html
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Another problem that we find today regarding obesity is that the government only focuses on helping youth, and companies do good marketing to attract attention to the population. but also that junk food is much cheaper than healthy food. “The World Bank says nearly a billion people around the world live on a dollar a day, or even less; in the United States, the daily food-stamp allowance is typically just a few dollars per person, while the average American eats $7 worth of food per day.
Even middle-class people struggle to put healthful food on the table. Studies show that junk foods tend to cost less than fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods, whose prices continue to rise”. This indicates that our system is created primarily for consumption. Even if most people have some money to buy healthy food, they also get too tired from their jobs to cook and even more so when they don’t know-how. Obesity has many factors than the simple fact of eating more, that’s why the government, the system should intervene in terms of the prices of healthy food, reduce it, but high taxes on junk food, also reduce the marketing of that food. Put limitations so that this disease does not continue to grow.
Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/nutrition/04well.html
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