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by rurban 1642 days ago
Asking people is not enough. They need to forbid sugared food and drinks in schools for a start. Treat sugar addiction as an illness.
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School lunch is divisive: https://thefern.org/ag_insider/as-schools-reopen-the-fight-o...

Schoolchildren are also not the people filling hospital beds, so that policy will not be able to match the effectiveness of other policies.

As a reminder, the claim was that reducing the prevalence of underlying conditions like obesity and diabetes could be more effective and less divisive than current policies. I'm looking for specific policy proposals to validate that claim.