• Question: What are your views on obesity and junk food?

    Asked by xxgracexx to Chia-Yu, Helen, Matthew, Matt H, Rhod on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Helen Pritchard-Smith

      Helen Pritchard-Smith answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I think obesity is a serious but avoidable problem; if people are given good advice and educated about health, how to maintain it and the effects of calorie consumption from a young age.

      Everyone should be allowed junk food, it is full of fat and sugar which was are built to like as that is the type of food that would have been scarce so we are programmed to want it out of a need for survival. Now food, including junk food, is everywhere so we need to be aware of the effects of eating too much (obesity, heart disease, death) and try to enjoy food without making ourselves unwell.

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