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Obesity rates have certainly increased but obesity is not inevitable. We can’t ever forget that it’s our lifestyle choices that are the ultimate determinate. Medical science demonstrates the truth that obesity is the result of eating more calories than your daily activity burns up.

Over-consumption is a major problem – as individuals we over-consume food, money, natural resources, energy… and there are consequences as we can see with the decline of the public’s health.

We have to learn to live in balance. Government should be doing everything it can to create conditions that lead to healthy eating, and supporting parents in raising healthy children – but we as individuals have to learn to make the right choices about what we purchase and how much goes into our mouths.

Esther Crawford

www.faintstarlite.com

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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