Obesity control over society

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Today, approximately 35% of the 20 years old and over are considered overweight. This scourge is visible on children too and more than 10% of adults in the world are considered obese. At the head of this globalized trouble, America, birthplace of fast foods. This major worldwide drawback is infecting more and more people every day, provoking considerable physical health problems but also psychological in that there is discrimination towards those who don't fit with magazine models.

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[...] Evidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analyse. BCM Public Health, 1-20. Franck, C., Grandi, S. M., & Eisenberg, M. J. (2013). Taxing Junk Food to Counter Obesity. American Journal of Public Health, 103(11), 1949-1953. Morgan. Spurlock. [...]

[...] Food consumption control appears like a sensible and controversial topic as it is an individual concern. Legislate it seems to be difficult because of privacy respect, which is an important topic in the civil rights. Even if states are trying to set those law on fat products, it is impossible for them to control people's purchases and governments can't force them to eat healthy products if they don't want to. This is what can be seen in the article Taxing Junk Food to Counter Obesity by Frank, Grandi and Eisenberg talking about the food taxes that was established by the Danish government in 2001. [...]

[...] Governments find the health situation due to obesity more and more alarming. Those troubles lead to other problems and one of the most important is cardiovascular diseases. Facing this situation, it is hard for a state not to do something to counter this scourge; but regarding the results of the last states' tries building, new measures correspond to taking the risk of failing as before. Nevertheless, countries continue to set up measures and try to find solutions that will fit better to the population than the previous taxes. [...]

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[...] In fact, more and more families choose not to cook at home and prefer to order food from restaurant and usually for a quite low price which often goes with a less quality of products. Moreover, schools are providing vending machines to children what encourage them to buy snacks and sweet drinks as sodas quite frequently. Or those products contain a significant amount of fat and sugar that is bad for their health. Thus, the number of overweight or obese kids is growing every day. [...]