How do we fight thee, Obesity?
How is it that the problem of obesity is so well known, yet it is still so hard to do something about it. At the World Economic Forum, this was discussed.
The proposed solutions took in government action, corporate responsibility and social pressure, amid consensus the problem could no longer be avoided.
Ponder this excerpt from the news article covering this conference…..
The causes of growing obesity range from the social — lack of exercise at school and home, peer pressure to eat the latest fads and centuries of habit — to corporate, such as price fixing and mislabelling of foods to suggest they contain less fat and sugar or more fibre than they do.
In developed countries, people in lower-income brackets are more likely to be obese as items with the most calories are often the cheapest, according to UN figures.
In poorer nations, however, obesity affects more often those in the higher socio-economic brackets.
Does this imply that our nation is not quite as developed as we think, or that more of us are living lower-income-bracket-like lifestyles, or that we are perhaps a poorer nation than we might like to think? Unfortunately, none of these possibilities are particularly good.
