Pouring on the Pounds

BBC NEWS | Americas | Anti-obesity ad shocks New Yorkers

"Sugar-sweetened drinks can contain up to 17 teaspoons of sugar per 550ml bottle. Obesity can lead to early heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, cancers, stroke and arthritis."

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Just two quotes from an article highlighting the damage the convenience, fast food life style is doing to many people. New York state is leading the way with this campaign and encouraging local business to sell fresh fruit and veg. The problem is, if you cannot afford the good food, what do you do?

Education is important, people need to know what harm some food is doing to them. They need to know that obesity is not an option, it is a death sentence.

But people need to be able to access real food, without colouring and preservatives, free from genetically modified ingredients AND at a price they can afford.

When or if the government of any country makes that happen, then there will be hope for people with obesity. Instead of letting the food companies and the pharmaceutical companies acquire gross profits through the fact that they provide medicine for people with obesity, tax those companies more heavily and invest in local people by encouraging them to grow their own vegetables and fresh produce, as they do in places like Havana Cuba see here: http://theportalofhealing.blogspot.com/2009/08/urban-vegetable-garden-in-havana-cuba.html.

Probably what will happen is those same companies will use all their power and wealth to block any such schemes. People have to be responsible for what they eat but as I said, if you can only get rubbish food what can you do?

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