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I would really like to see some response to advertisement directed at children. the fast food mentality is something that we are raised with and it is incredibly difficult to resist a product that was pushed at you during an impressionable time. Additionally some schools are also being encouraged *NOT* to include basic dietary guidelines in their health classes because fast food and soda industries are supplementing their funding through cafeteria lunches and vending machines. we cannot expect adults to make healthy choices if they are not armed with the information to make such choices. One could argue that parents should take more responsibility but it is incredibly difficult for parents to counterbalance billion dollar industries. As things stand now our society is getting less and less healthy and the cost is being passed on to everyone through higher insurance premiums. we have a problem and, as art stated, yelling at people to be more personally responsible is not going to solve it.
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