You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.