I agree with Susan moderation is the key. I think this study is ridiculous to indicate that if we stopped running fast food ads during children's programming that it would reduce childhood obesity by 18%. I personally believe that there is a segment of the population who are predisposed to be obese by their genetic makeup. They have done a lot of research on this and have found a "fat gene". As the human race has evolved there has become an abundance of food availability, which has caused obesity to rise among those people who are predisposed to be overweight. Kind of like pouring gas on a fire effect. (That is my theory) I think the cure for obesity will come from genetic research. I think blaming the fast food industry or the corn refiners or any food industry is craziness. Did we not learn anything from prohibition?
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I agree with Susan moderation is the key. I think this study is ridiculous to indicate that if we stopped running fast food ads during children's programming that it would reduce childhood obesity by 18%. I personally believe that there is a segment of the population who are predisposed to be obese by their genetic makeup. They have done a lot of research on this and have found a "fat gene". As the human race has evolved there has become an abundance of food availability, which has caused obesity to rise among those people who are predisposed to be overweight. Kind of like pouring gas on a fire effect. (That is my theory) I think the cure for obesity will come from genetic research. I think blaming the fast food industry or the corn refiners or any food industry is craziness. Did we not learn anything from prohibition?
December 13, 2008 - 8:58amThis Comment
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