Fat Future: 20 percent of Bangkok kids are overweight

[Jingthing]

It's very easy to blame obese people for making poor nutritional choices, being lazy, eating too much etc but the reality is that the food manufacturers are almost entirely to blame.

This is especially true for poorer people in deprived areas where health food is simply not an option for them.

When someone explains to me how on earth it is possible for an eighteen month old toddler to be obese when they have zero choice as to what they eat, then I'll believe otherwise.

Of course when little kids become obese we can all see it's not their choice. Also once a child becomes obese we know that statistically it's going to be very hard to reverse that.

But what often makes discussions about obesity so messy is that there actually is a free will aspect of it for older people anyway, which encourages many people to take a black or white approach in the BLAME GAME.

It's just more complex than that. There is no purpose in putting all the blame on obese people but there is also nothing wrong with education messages promoting better free will choices. Of course in toxic food environments where those better choices are hard to come by and expensive, that diminishes the real amount of free choice involved.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Jingthing