While we the public love our fast food and sodas, our bodies do not and the increasing obesity epidemic is clear proof of a need for change. Unfortunately, the promotion of soda and fat taxes lacks significant support and we need to think of other ways to thin up our population.
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Better Than Taxing our Bad Behavior
October 13th, 2009 
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Tags: fast food tax, fat tax, health care costs, health care efficiency, obesity, obesity epidemic, soda tax 
1 Comment »The Growing Obesity Epidemic: We’re fat, we’re fat, we know it, we’re fat…
July 5th, 2009 admin From the response to the H1N1 flu, we can see that our governments do have the ability to unite behind an urgent issue and can promote corrective action. Sadly, with a crisis bigger than any flu, the rate of obesity continues to rise without any national plan.
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