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I dont want to seem like all the other dictator worshipping posters on this site but there should be government pressure on obese poeple of course obesiety can be linked to the economic system and our capitalist system destroying our minds but obesiety is a serious societal issue causing health problems and we can treat it for example with exercise programs for adults and especially the youth. The hardest part is to eliminate meat and sugar consumption i have no idea how that can be done without using a crushing consumption tax system
The hardest part is to eliminate meat and sugar consumption i have no idea how that can be done without using a crushing consumption tax system
We could start by not giving gigantic sums of money to the corn and beef industries.
Instead of the government putting pressure on people to lose weight, why don’t they regulate what is allowed to be put in our food?
The easiest way to eliminate meat and sugar consumption is to not allow it or severely restrict how much of it is allowed in certain products and how much of those products are allowed to be purchased in a time period.
The government would also need to offer free services to help people lose weight like nutritionists, personal training, bariatric surgery, etc.
Instead of punishing people who are already in a bad place, make it easier for them to make changes and prevent future generations from getting there in the first place.
Yeah i tought regulating the corn syrup shit and all was obious but im still not sure if itll be enough
I don’t think just regulating corn syrup would be enough.
I’m kind of an extremist but I think sugar should be a controlled substance treated like how tobacco is now. If you want to advertise your product, it can’t have added sugar in it. Food with added sugar is in a separate section of the grocery store like alcohol.
So much sugary food is marketed to children, and I think if we’re able to limit their exposure to it, we have a better chance at preventing people from developing dependencies and addiction.
Obviously there are still children today who smoke and get alcohol, but it’s not as many children who regularly drink juice and soda.
Portion sizes is another big problem that I have less of a solution for. You can at least control what restaurants are allowed to sell, like no more than 8 oz of protein in a meal, etc.
No. It’s sugar. Eating a normal portion of meat for every meal can easily keep you under the number of calories you burn in a day.
I was thinking more about constructing our institutions to make sure people live healthy lives
The issue with obesity isn’t meat, I know that’s a good thing to work on because of the issues with meat for the climate and the animals themselves, but tying this to obesity goes back to old problems in specifically US dietary guidelines pushed by various companies. The problem is insulin resistance caused by sugar and an overabundance of cheap carbs. Sugar is the big one, but things like highly refined flour is another. The entire food industry spent a fuckton of time creating the lowfat narrative, etc etc. Basically, material conditions led to this more than people’s individual choices somehow magically getting worse.
What we need is readily available and sufficiently high quality fat and protein sources that are low in carbs and extremely low in sugar to no sugar for the general non-active population. If we could get things like avacado oil running at a good rate cheaply with low impact that’d be wonderful. Also, things like black soybeans (low in carbs but decently high in protein), etc, that are rarely consumed.
