Blog 7

Some solutions to my problem for this proposal paper, which is childhood obesity, would be focusing on childhood weight earlier in life even infancy, having organizations that sole purpose is to inform the public of health food and ways to maintain a healthy life style, and lowering taxes and prices of organic and high nutrient food stuffs.


My first idea, focusing on a child's weight earlier in life, would help to establish a healthy lifestyle early on and let the child's body start out getting the nutrients it needs while also maintaining  a healthy metabolism. This however would have to be a choice and effort solely on the parents account. Studies have shown that obesity within the first two years of life is an indicator of obesity later and in most cases permanently in life. Seeing as how these infants cant and don't feed themselves, it is up to the parents to make the healthy choices for their child. I don't think anyone would have a problem doing this except it could possibly be out of reach in impoverished and low-income neighborhoods.


Secondly, I'm sure there are some organizations that are there to inform the people of what is healthy and what isn't, but I think, and this could maybe even be a governmental institution, some kind of project or organization needs to be brought up to have the sole purpose of helping low-income areas have the availability of healthy and inexpensive foods, while also informing all  peoples of healthy food items and knowledge of nutrients and what the body needs to be at a healthy weight. I think the main objections of this would be how to spread that wide of an organization and all the funds that would required, that's why I suggested it be a federal organization that would see through the implementation of these hubs of health.


Lastly, lowering the prices of foods by lowering taxes and even subsidizing all organic foods and farms would somewhat funnel the people into health making it the most readily available and cheapest choice for food. Maybe if that isn't possible, that maybe raising taxes on fatty and calorically heavy foods. ie: fast food chains, and other cheap fattening choices. draw backs to this is no one likes taxes raised.