If the fact that Congress is pushing to have French fries and tomato sauce on pizza considered as “vegetables” wasn’t so scary, it would be funny. There was obviously no serious thought given to this, this is the result of our government being bought off by special interest groups. They attack efforts to give our kids healthier food choices at school and ridicule those, like Michelle Obama, who are making sincere efforts to make a difference at the expense of our kids.
There are too many agri-businesses and politicians who are willing to allow our childhood obesity epidemic to continue. They don't care that our military is telling us that young people are too fat to fight, with only one in four meeting the fitness requirements for military service. They don't care that one in three children under the age of 18 will develop Type II Diabetes within their lifetime. They don't care that the rate of childhood obesity has doubled since 1980.
Everyone complains about healthcare and there are few real solutions offered. Basic simple suggestions, like our kids’ diets, that should be obvious to even our challenged representatives are thrown under the bus. The fact that the US spends twice as much on healthcare as other countries while we rank much lower on our actual health should be a wake-up call to everyone. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
LouAnn Good
Fitness Together
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