Last Monday night ABC TV's Four Corners program dealt with obesity in children. The stats are staggering - and more importantly given the health issues obesity throws up now, and in later years, everyone is going to have to confront the huge cost to the community down the track. Health Minister Abbott [why is it that he seems to bob up everywhere? - and then in negative mode!] could only say that it wasn't for government to become involved as it was a matter for parents what food [make that junk food] their children ate. Of course that all assumes a family with 2 parents in the household, etc. The statistics would suggest otherwise.
Coincidentally today comes an interesting article - admitedly out of America - on Alternet on junk food and where the US is at one year after the movie Supersize Me. Sit down on the couch, without becoming a potato in the process, and read with interest how junk food reins. You might want to put that hamburger, chips, cookies, Coke or Pepsi and the rest to one side......
Coincidentally today comes an interesting article - admitedly out of America - on Alternet on junk food and where the US is at one year after the movie Supersize Me. Sit down on the couch, without becoming a potato in the process, and read with interest how junk food reins. You might want to put that hamburger, chips, cookies, Coke or Pepsi and the rest to one side......
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