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DP. I see that the Americans you criticize are in the same boat as you, and I'm not sure how this translates into other individuals here being worse than you. You found yourself in the same boat as them, and you ended up at the same place.

That seems like it should lead to a criticism of corporate interests, etc., not individual people. I mean, I presume you can vote and do whatever advocacy you feel is warranted, just as much as those individuals can, and that it has just the same odds of success.  [/quote]

That’s the point. We should be advocating for healthy school lunches and regulating food industry, setting standards for restaurant and store bought food and their marketing campaigns.

[b]But no one cares.  Like this thread people think it’s about personal choice and don’t hold the system accountable.[/quote][/b]

Stop generalising.  We ALL care.  Just because we do not agree with your conclusions re: the cause of the problem does not mean we don't care.

I live in one of the countries people on the thread like to believe is full of slim, healthy people.  In truth, that was true in the recent past, when it was harder to get junk food: people ate healthier because that was what everyone around them was doing and what was available, not because they chose healthy food over junk.  Now that the junk is available easily here, suddenly there are many more overweight people. [B] Clearly there is a component of education and choice here: you aren't going to get governments to ban junk, but you can educate people about what healthy food choices look like and how to choose and prepare them.  [/B][/quote]

Food education does jack-all long term. This is an idealistic myth.

You want health risks associated with junk food to go down? Regulate it like alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. But all the junk food addicts in this thread -- and that includes the ones boasting about how skinny they are -- will fight it like the addicts they are.

Literally nothing will change until kids are banned from junk food the way they are banned from alcohol and cigarettes, but that will never happen. So welcome to a spiraling health crisis. It's going to get worse, not better.[/quote]

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