U.S. children showing hardening of arteries

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Statistics etc aside, the problem isn't fat, it's poor diet. Fatty sugary food just tend to be part of that poor diet. People are existing on rubbish filled with colourings, preservatives, fat, sugar, salt and other chemicals. Many smoke and many more drink excessively. Such is the world we live in.

Here in the UK, nannying them and telling the masses what they can and cannot eat, a la Jamie Oliver, isn't going to solve the problem long term. Better education will. On one hand the UK government tries to educate people about a healthy lifestyle, on the other hand they're raking in billions in tax from tobacco and alcohol taxation. As long as the government appears to be a load of hypocrites sending out such mixed messages, nothing is going to change. In some other countries they don't have half the food regulations we have here, and where there is greater poverty, all of this junk food is available but the big difference is that people don't live on it because they can't afford to, and because they have a basic sense of what is and is not junk. The mothers, squeezing the coke filled teet bottles down their toddlers throat's before replacing their dummys, in the UK don't. How do you fight blatent ignorance and idleness of this kind? How do you educate a parent to first cook a decent meal and then actually get off their fat arse and actually cook it? This has to be their responsibility and not that of the state.