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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by devoply on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:02PM (#13825226)
Education does not work. Mexico has shown that regulation does work, they regulated sugar which has had a positive effect on health. The food industry needs to be regulated. The few conglomerates are engineering unhealthy people. It's that simple. There is very little actual food choice because the market optimizes for profits, not for health. In order to give health a fighting chance you need to regulate the market to change the game. Food is an addictive drug, we regulate all other addictive drugs.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/03/obese-soda-suga...

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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by TezlaKoil on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:21PM (#13825362)
> There is very little actual food choice because the market optimizes for profits, not for health.

Hold on! The market consists of both suppliers and customer. One would think that being fat is not profitable for the latter. Meanwhile, only 3% of Japanese people have a BMI over 30, while 32% of Americans do. It must be that Japanese markets don't optimize for profit! Or maybe you got the source of the problem wrong. Guess which one I think it is.

> Mexico has shown that regulation does work, they regulated sugar which has had a positive effect on health.

Hungary has a higher sugar tax, had it for a longer time, and it appears to have no effect on health at all. Go figure.

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