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the article i posted earlier is quite good on the relations between the supermarket model (which it defines) and the first of the who's claims as to cause. if you have a chance, read that. it makes the case i am making better than i can--and points to the main solution--which is a wholesale reorientation of how food is produced and the systems of distribution. i think it's entirely doable, but until that's taken seriously as a problem, obesity and it's related health issues are not going to stop and telling people to exercise isn't going to mean a whole lot.
the second problem is also far bigger than how folk choose to organize their leisure time. think about it.
i think you're flipping major/minor around to keep your earlier arguments consistent with the position you're arguing now--which is fine i suppose. but there are the relatively superficial things one can address--and you seem to be arguing like jack lalane on this matter. but he did alot of television and told folk to exercise for many years, yet obesity rates continued to rise. so say what you're saying all you want--hector your friends---live by them. hell, i like to bike and i don't eat processed foods. but that won't do anything significant to address obesity as a problem, particularly not given the scale of it.
structures. no way around them.
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