If Diets Don't Work, What's the Solution to Obesity in America?
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This text is about solution on preventing obesity.
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The government should build more bikes path, playground, students might get more physical education in schools, nutritionally vacant foods might be taxed to discourage consumption, and families might have access to free counseling.
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Key Points:
The government should build more bikes path, playground, students might get more physical education in schools, nutritionally vacant foods might be taxed to discourage consumption, and families might have access to free counseling.
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“Trying to teach adults how to lose weight is about as effective as teaching house cats to swim. For most people, diets simply don't work. The latest evidence: a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine examining diets with different proportions of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Not surprisingly, it made no difference what kind of diet people followed; if they reduced calories, they initially lost weight. But after two years, average participants had regained weight, leaving them with a net loss of just 9 pounds . . . and on a path toward further regain. A similar study published in 2007 also found that dieters regained weight regardless of their regime.”
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Ok so diets don't work... does this mean that people are not able to help themselves???
ReplyDeleteIf i were to play the devils advocate here i might say...
"why should governments have to fix this problem using tax payers money when the people who have these problems can help themselves?"
People have the money but they have a issue of taking care of themselves
ReplyDeleteso why should I care?????
ReplyDeletei guess what i am trying to ask is... why is this a global problem? do we have a moral responsibility to help people who have this problem? Aren't there other people in the world who deserve our help more?
ReplyDeleteYes it's ture but the question is are the people willing to ask for help.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we need to make information about healthy eating more readily available for the people who need it?
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