Another study linking poor diet, being overweight, and lack of exercise to disease. These sorts of preventative health issues take a tremendous toll on people, both individually and in terms of healthcare utilization. Yet of course the increased pace of society, need to work more, increasingly sedentary jobs, reliance on automobiles etc. all make it even harder than ever for people to stay healthy. If you could make a big dent here (and in things like smoking) the effect on our healthcare system would be incredible.
Minor detail - I don't think anybody really has any practical solutions for the problem. This is one of those problems I'd love to be able to make some kind of contribution to (who knows, maybe even some of the current social networking technology can be channeled into helping out in this area!) but I don't even know where to begin...
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