"When there are more fast-food restaurants in the neighborhood than grocery stores, patients are at an increased risk of obesity, Canadian researchers found."Still think they have any idea what is going on?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Risk of Obesity Higher with Fast Food Nearby
No, it's not.
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Despite the contention on this issue, what it comes down to is that kids are not receiving the dietary education that they need to make the right food choices. My guesses are that fast food outlets amongst a middle class neighborhood will not have the same effect as an abundance of fast food restaurants in low income neighborhoods. I also don't believe that just because there is access to grocery stores for some neighborhoods that people will shift their fast food consumption.
Let's face it, fast food is an addiction and it's cheap. If we want to curb our nation's dependency on it we are going to have to start urging our politicians to cut their corn subsidies and increase the demand of taxes from the fast food industry.
As long as fast food continues to undercut healthy food on the market, the obesity epidemic will continue to prevail.
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Hi, teeg701 and welcome to Fitness Watch.
I left your comment even though it mentions another website with which I do not agree completely.
I am in favor of the conversation.
Clearly it is not the "fast food" industry that is the problem. Nor is it the lack of taxes on "fast food." Nor is it anything you blame, except for dietary education.
As to education, the matter is one that dovetails with parenting.
Parents are willing to fatten their children up for the kill by nutritional child abuse. This needs to be stopped.
Kids do not, in general, have the discretionary income to spend on your bogey-person, "fast food" unless it is supplied to them by parents.
You are right, from my perspective, about the grocery store issue and buying habits.
That, still, is a matter of personal choice and those making unwise choices should be held accountable.
The rest of us should not suffer because of the calorically irresponsible.
Just as kitchen knives should not be taxed higher or the kitchen knife industry blamed for stabbings, so, too, should the fast food industry not be blamed for the irresponsibility of individuals.
If you want to tax someone, tax the fat to pay for their own rescue from the problems of their own making.
If you want to blame someone besides the calorically irresponsible, blame those who IMHO mislead them (e.g. Oprah and her experts).
Please feel free to visit anytime.
Thanks, again.
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