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Policies to Improve National Health
While individually there are many steps you can take, these are matters of public health. Why do we have an explosion of obesity rates and diseases related to metabolic syndrome. These have the very real potential of bankrupting Medicare and destroying the medical system. Some of these policies should be easier to impose, some will require a lot of work and funds.
We will also need to deal with the utterly individualistic attitudes of many American parents, who will oppose some of these changes. We know, because they were against the Move Campaign from First Lady Michelle Obama, even if that one touched on the issues only in the edges.
We will also have to deal with the issues of food insecurity that at times bedevil the country, and make it much filling (in the short term) to buy a takeaway, then eating a healthy meal. More to the point, there are people who literally have no time to buy and cook a meal, because they are working three jobs. For them, the school lunch is an essential meal, and a day of vacation, or school off, is a full-time three-alarm fire.
To quote a parent some years back, “what do I feed them, and with what money?”
The tragedy is that even parents with the means, and presumably the time, are also feeding their children convenient junk food. Partly because of what they are offered at…