If we really cared about what can only be called an epidemic of obesity – and the resulting health care costs – we would appoint a cabinet level seat to look holistically at the impact of:
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- Easy to acquire, highly refined carbohydrates distributed as “food”
- Huge government subsidies for the corn industry
- Junk food marketed to children
- The use of corn in factory farming to lower the price of red meat
- Decreasing emphasis on cooking at home
- Decreasing emphasis on movement
- Food companies engineering addiction into taste
- Lack of nutritional training for medical professionals
Data from: https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/data/