How To Combat The Obesity Epidemic?

People have prejudice towards fat people and think of them as lazy and impotent. It might be true that some fat people have enough health literacy to make good decisions about their life, but they still choose to eat junk food and lead a sedentary life. But I don't think that health education has been widespread across the entire population of the U.S. There are still people who don't know much about calories, recommended food portions, different food alternatives, etc. They lack health literacy in order to make better decisions about their health. Most of them know that vegetables are healthier than a McDonald burger, but if they have limited resources (money), they are going to buy the burger instead, since it's cheaper.
Most people in the middle class and upper class have read magazines about health, have seen a T.V show about health, or have found more information available about it. They can afford a nutritionist, and a gym membership. It seems that most health programs are advertised towards those with higher socioeconomic status; they are the ones that can afford all those health services. The poor population in this country, especially minorities, lack the knowledge and skills necessaries to make good health choices with their limited resources. It's harder for them to be healthy since they do not have the health literacy, nor the resources available that wealthier people do. I think that when health promoters teach health to the public, they should focus on individual groups or races, because it's hard to tell someone to eat better and exercise if you do not know what that person goes through everyday.
I don't have a solution to eradicate obesity in this country, but I do think that it should start by targeting the kids and get them away from the vicious cycle of overeating and inactivity. Parents should be targeted too, so they can teach and support their kids in their new path to health and well-being.

I also found this good article about minorities' health: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/21252.php
I was shocked when I watched this video: A 7-yeard old girl who weighted 400 hundred pounds!

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