The medical and pharmaceutical industries are on a quest to find a drug for the treatment of obesity. The simple solution is for consumers to become more educated about fresh local foods, food additives, and the realization that a little self-control will be much better and cheaper. Easier said than done.
This article does a pretty good job with the analysis of how we got into this situation. It also includes some interesting discussion about how the brain controls food intake.
I believe that the cheap fructose additives and artificial sweeteners are a big reason that obesity has skyrocketed in the last 20 years.
Obesity may be the biggest battle that me must fight in order to have affordable health care. We truly are what we eat.
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