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This is exactly the problem with childhood obesity. Parents refuse to believe they have any responsibility and calling for parental accountability is “nuts”. These poor kids will grow up believing that they have no control over their food choices or obesity- all to their detriment. The government won’t make you thin or healthy, sweetheart [/quote]

Again, if you understand the science of habit forming, like eating habits, you know it’s not about will power. It’s about creating an environment where the good habit is easy to do or creating environment that makes bad habit difficult to do.

That’s why banning smoking indoors and rising cigarette prices resulted in huge drop of smokers.

The same with food. It’s much easier to make they right choice when your environment makes it easy, and it’s a lot harder to fight your environment to make the right choice.

This is science.[/quote]

And it’s up to parents and individuals to create those habits. So you can sit around waiting for the government to help make you thin or you can do it yourself. Industrialization of food is going nowhere. This country doesn’t have the capacity to feed our oversized population without it. Plus, to keep food affordable, mass production is a necessity.

You want to change food culture? Start with your own home. Get off the soccer field until 8pm and all weekend and make actual meals for your kids. How many families do you know that have traded nutrition for sports? The government cannot control our bad choices[/quote]

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