I completely agree with the CMA but there are a few problems.
1. Lack of education
Our medical doctors receive very little training on nutrition. How are they suppose to educate us about nutrition if they are not themselves highly educated in the matter.
2. Wrong education
The Canada Food Guide recommends 6-7 servings of whole grains a day. So even if doctors were educated in nutrition they like nutritionist & dietitians, they would just be educating patients with improper knowledge. However I do believe that if people cut out the processed crap and fast food and ate "healthy" whole grains this would help fight obesity.
*healthy as defined by the Canada Food Guide
3. Most people already know this
Ok I have no proof of this but I am guessing that the majority of people, obese or not, know that proper nutrition and exercise would help them.
According to the BMI definition of obese, I fell into that category for a long time and I can tell you 100% I knew the crap I was putting into my body wasn't going to help make me skinnier. But at the end of the day people choose to eat junk and that is the main reason most people are over weight.
Actually I wonder how many obese people there are who have eaten a clean healthy diet for years. I am not even talking about a paleo diet. Just a diet that is full of fruits and veggies and has very little processed foods in it.
4. We need to be starting this education early
So if I am wrong above in #3 this means that we need to be educating people when they are children about proper nutrition and exercise. They need to be learning early on how to eat properly. And the best place to get an education is in school.
Also instead of cutting gym class because there are "more important" things on the curriculum for the students to be doing. Exercise should be considered a key part of the school system with some included in every single day.
What on earth could be more important for students to learn about then their health?Oh sure Jimmy might be a brilliant scientist but he is going to die at age 50 of a heart attack and spend most of his life in pain due to poor eating habits.
Also a healthy child eating good nutritious food and getting daily exercise is going to be able to sit still at school more alert and ready and able to learn better.
Defining obesity as a disease is just another excuse to make drugs to combat this "disease" instead of getting at the true problem that people are filling their bodies with junk and obesity is the bodies way of reacting to all this junk in the body.
*This post is a rant and is all my personal opinion. I also do believe that a few people may have other medical issues that lead them to be obese, but that is not the same as saying that obesity is a disease.
4. We need to be starting this education early
So if I am wrong above in #3 this means that we need to be educating people when they are children about proper nutrition and exercise. They need to be learning early on how to eat properly. And the best place to get an education is in school.
Also instead of cutting gym class because there are "more important" things on the curriculum for the students to be doing. Exercise should be considered a key part of the school system with some included in every single day.
What on earth could be more important for students to learn about then their health?Oh sure Jimmy might be a brilliant scientist but he is going to die at age 50 of a heart attack and spend most of his life in pain due to poor eating habits.
Also a healthy child eating good nutritious food and getting daily exercise is going to be able to sit still at school more alert and ready and able to learn better.
Defining obesity as a disease is just another excuse to make drugs to combat this "disease" instead of getting at the true problem that people are filling their bodies with junk and obesity is the bodies way of reacting to all this junk in the body.
*This post is a rant and is all my personal opinion. I also do believe that a few people may have other medical issues that lead them to be obese, but that is not the same as saying that obesity is a disease.
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