To the average person it reinforces the diet/excercise argument- poverty limits
access to healthy food, monitoring etc. Social justice could alleviate the
conditions of poverty and therefore allow better access to necessities. To the
average person, I think, the initiating factor- the stress of constant
insecurity leading physiologically to diabetes, heart disease etc. needs to be
spelled out first, then followed by the difficulty of managing the disease.

M.deSzegheo







> I am curious as to how this reads... to the average person.
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http://www.healthzone.ca/health/yourhealth/diabetes/article/885277--poverty-drives-the-epidemic
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> And on the macro level, Glazier believes there are options for government
> policy that would fight obesity. For example, governments could tax
> unhealthy food and use that money to subsidize nutritious food, he said.
> ?We are looking at the first generation in history (today?s teens) that
> will not live longer than their parents because this generation is much
> more obese, they have very unhealthy lifestyles and don?t have any
> physical activity in the course of a day,? Glazier said.
> Dennis Raphael, a professor of health policy and management at York
> University, has published numerous studies concluding that poverty is the
> main cause of diabetes.
> Raphael argues that the only way to put a dent in the explosive growth of
> the disease is to focus on social justice ? and the jobs that allow people
> to emerge from poverty.
> ?The better argument is to say that today?s generation will not be as
> healthy as we are because of growing income inequality, insecure
> employment and a lack of affordable housing,? he said.
> The myth, he said, is that governments can intervene on obesity and ?that
> would make everything fine.?
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