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Originally posted by Trisk
As for educating people about what's in their foods...I believe this is taught in health education in high school and middle school.
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What I was taught had no real relevance to anything I knew. It was all obscure bits of information that required a preexisting understanding of the subject that I dind't get until much later, so none of what I was taught had any impact, as none of it had any relation to what I knew about eating. Eating was just another activity like games, TV, movies, magazines, etc.
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Originally posted by Arroe
If people have a problem with fast food, they should stop eatting it.
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That is where advertising comes in. Billions wouldn't be spent on advertising by companies if more billions weren't too be earned from it, it works, it takes more than simply having in your head that it's bad for you. We're bombarded by so much information daily that it takes more than simply knowing something to have it affect your life.
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Limiting advertising creates another problem too. People could lose jobs due to decreased demand in the fast-food industry, and what about people like me, who can control what they eat and say, once a month decide, "Hell, I guess I'll just pick up one of those nice flame-broiled whoppers on my way home" after hearing a commercial? Not everyone gets fat from eatting fast food.
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I personally don't believe that being bombarded by so much crap information is healthy for anyone. For most adults I'd wager that, assuming they are sound of mind, they can take that with no ill affect. Children however know nothing, their environment has the most affect on them and the two biggest influence in most children's lives now adays it seems is the Education system and the media. Neither of which I think should have much influence on a child outside of skills and consumer awareness.
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Last, about wieght loss: it really isn't too difficult. Best way to lose weight is to watch how many calories you are eatting a day, and to seriously work out. Last summer I lost a little wieght and built up a little bit by doing just that; I cut down how many cokes I drank, stopped eatting ice cream, and ran down to the gym from 9 to 10 at night 5 times a week and lifted wieghts. Simply increasing your heart rate to a steady rate for an hour burns a ton of calories.
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I don't about you, but I was brought up to be a monkey of consumerism and reinventing myself is quite energy consuming, I can't just up and change myself, my environment as a child was so riddled with horseshit that any good information about how to live had it's meaning perverted to suit the purposes of what I was being raised to be, a monkey of the US brand of rampant consumerism.
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Anyway, I think I covered it all, from the economy to dieting, hah.
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"Hah" indeed Mr. Aroe, "hah", indeed.
One thing I'd say is a great issue for society is the public education system, school was usually the least mentally stimulating activity I had all day. It quite literally had a negative affect on me overall, and up till 6th grade I was teaching myself probably about 3x times the amount of junk they taught us in roughly an hour a day of personal studies, most of high school was a refresher, the schools I went to were pathetic and most of the people knew considered them the standard, and feeling the standards were too high, generally fell a bit below what was expected.