Multiple factors have contributedto the obesity epidemic. Social, sensory, cultural, medical, perceptual, conditioning, and developmental influences have combined to disrupt well established feeding controls. All are discussed individually and collectively from the perspectivesof causation and potential mitigation, on individual and at group levels.
Another major cause of obesity that has not received its due attention is the unhealthy marriage of addictive overeatingof sweet and fatty foods with federal policies of subsidizing agricultural industries through the USDA. These subsidies specifically target agricultural production that makes tasty, high-calorie foods widely available at very modest costs. This comes by eliminating subsidies for fruits and vegetables, resulting in higher, often unaffordable prices. The Food Stamp Program is discussed as one vehicle through which produce can be made more widely available to people who could not otherwiseafford their purchase. The complexities, limitations, and potentials of such a program areevaluated.
Vulnerability to overeating, which develops in infancy and inearly childhood, has been exploited by producers of children's foods (such as sweetened cereals) and by advertising campaigns to make them extremely enticing. The contribution to early obesity by extended inactivity through TV and computer engagement is discussed, as is increased dependence on the automobile (especially in unsafe public areaswhere there is no viable alternative) as the sole means of transportation.
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Obesity identifies feeding strategies and unknown entrapments that cause severe overeating and ways that they can be combated. They range from exchanging large dishes and short, stout glasses for smalldishes and thin, tall glasses to strategies of better monitoring portion sizes and the caloric content of foods served at home.
http://tinyurl.com/solveobesity
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