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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be several posters (or one?) who ridicules every idea. Let’s just speak for ourselves and stop morphing the conversation to the nameless others who live far from a grocery store, who work 3 jobs, who don’t have access to healthcare etc. etc. In truth there are lots of people in the DMV area with good incomes and access and they are still gaining weight. What would help these people? I’m not talking about the ones trying to lose weight but the ones trying to maintain a healthy weight. We see post after post on this forum about people struggling with weight gain in middle age. What are the strategies for them? We are not going to get large numbers of Americans to lose weight and keep it off. So what can we do to prevent it?[/quote]

OP. First, thanks for the great discussion. This went better than I thought it would, as I have frankly a low opinion of DCUMs understanding of obesity in general. But this has been pretty good.

To answer the question above, here are some things I think need to happen:

1. End any and all subsidies to the sugar companies. 
2. Treat chips, soda, and candy like cigarettes: highly taxed, black boxes, stored behind locked cabinets, children can’t buy them. 
3. Ban Round Up and Round Up ready seeds from the food supply. 
4. [b]Sharply decrease the routine use of antibiotics in treating childhood illnesses[/b], no routine use of amoxicillin for ear infections, for instance.
5. Remove hydrogenated oils from the food supply. 
6. Remove willpower and personal responsibility from any discussion of obesity (since that has been proven over and over to not work). 
7. Provide tax subsidies for people who commute by bicycle or who otherwise remove personal cars as their primary mode of transportation. 
8. Provide significant tax incentives to food companies to sell fresh vegetables, lean meats, and whole grain foods (much more than the corn and sugar subsidies they currently get). 
9. Ban advertising for junk food entirely, particularly for kids.

This is just a start but I do not believe we will ever fix the obesity crisis without societal steps like this. I also firmly believe that in 100-200 years, how we treated obesity during this time (with the focus on personal failings as the primary cause of obesity) will be seen as scientifically backwards as phrenology or the humoral theory of illness. [/quote]

While I think this is important, I wonder if we should also move to ban the use of antibiotics in agriculture except for genuine medical need?  I know we should do that for basic public health reasons, but I wonder if the constant low level antibiotics fed to livestock for "growth enhancement" also effects humans as the end consumers?[/quote]

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