How many vegetables are in this picture? Yes, 3. Strangely Coca Cola is not yet defined a vegetable, but it seems that french fries already were defined vegetables.

In case you were wondering where all of the healthy vegetables were on your child’s lunch menu at school, they’re in the pizza they’ve been eating everyday. Congress recently declared that Pizza constitutes a vegetable requirement even though it only contains an average of two tablespoons of tomato sauce. inquisitr

Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?  In an effort many 9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration’s efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools. KSPR

"While it’s unfortunate that some members of Congress continue to put special interests ahead of the health of America’s children, USDA remains committed to practical, science-based standards for school meals," says a USDA spokesperson. Newser

Like many of you, when I heard this I thought it had to be a headline from The Onion. But sadly I’ve realized that there are too many agri-businesses and politicians who are willing to allow our childhood obesity epidemic to continue. They don’t care that our military is telling us that young people are too fat to fight, with only one in four meeting the fitness requirements for military service. They don’t care that one in three children under the age of 18 will develop Type II Diabetes within their lifetime. They don’t care that the rate of childhood obesity has doubled since 1980.   TheStateColumn

Human-Stupidity analysis

1. Children are endangered, made obese, sick, diabetic for life. Not only is this tolerated, active advertising for child food porn is legal.
2. This dangerous deadly child abuse (yes people die earlier because of obesity) is a world wide epidemic and almost nothing is done against it.
3. This human stupidity is "normal". The entire world is getting obese due to wrong nutrition and lack of exercise. And it starts with children, their parent’s mistakes, and child food porn propaganda
4. *Language abuse helps to deceive the common person into accepting rules that otherwise would create more resistance. A law saying that a healthy meal has to contain milk, meat, and pizza would cause more resistance.
5. It is all about influential special interest groups! Healthy food brings economic benefits to small farmers, small enterprises, and of course to the entire (healthier) population.
6. Hundreds of millions of children get sick because of false nutrition they were unable to give informed consent to. On the other hand, the "best interest of the child" is used as pretext to condemn men to ruinous child (wife) support payments, debtor’s prison. Alleged concern about children’s welfare is used as excuse for the child porn witch hunt and legal morass created around teenage sexuality. All this is hypocrisy

• Did the Reagan-era USDA really classify ketchup as a vegetable?

(Reuters) – The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children.

The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after the deep-pocketed food, beverage and restaurant industries successfully weakened government proposals for voluntary food marketing guidelines to children.  

"It’s an important victory," said Corey Henry, spokesman for the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI). That trade association lobbied Congress on behalf of frozen pizza sellers like ConAgra Foods Inc. and Schwan Food Co and French fry makers McCain Foods Ltd and J.R. Simplot Co, the latter best known as a supplier to fast-food company McDonald’s Corp.

"Our concern is that the standards would force companies in many respects to change their products in a way that would make them unpalatable to students," Henry said.  Reuters

Donna Simpson currently weighs 600 pounds, so she’s going on a diet in hopes of reaching what she considers her ideal weight: 1,000 pounds. The 42-year-old mother, a resident of Old Bridge, NJ, consumes a whopping 12,000 calories a day in an effort to reach her goal.

Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record for world’s fattest mother. She insists she’s healthy despite the fact that she cannot walk more than 20 feet independently. huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/donna-simpson-nj-woman-ea_n_501245.html

Fat fetishism and anorexia (15 Youtube videos)

A huge part of the population becomes fat and of ill health because of thoughtlessness and bad habits. But some eat wrong out of conviction.

A portion of our teenagers get dangerously thin due to Anorexia. They think they are  too fat.  And there are some fat obese people who look in the mirror and think they are too thin. Who enjoy being fatter and fatter by choice.

People should get healthy eating habits, and use medical science to develop a healthy body according to their inherited constitutional body type.

Fat fetishism, also referred to as fat admiration, is the sexual attraction to overweight or obese individuals. As well as traditional attraction the topic also incorporates “feederism”, where sexual gratification is obtained via the process of gaining body fat.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_fetishism

Donna Simpson has thousands of members on her website donnamsimpson.com/ that pay 15 dollars per month to see her eat and “exercise”.

• There is a french message board dedicated to fattening oneself.
• Fatorexia: In the mirror, Sara saw a slim woman. Just one problem: she was 17st. So how could she be so deluded?

Obesity, bad food habits are a major cause of disease and death. Parents train their toddlers to eat in unhealthy ways and to be fat and sick for life. And government, the law, the justice system are unconcerned about a major health epidemic without precedence. They should inform, counteract advertising that makes our kids sick

They are busy with more important things, like arresting people for possession of small amounts of fairly inocuous drugs, possession of nude adolescent photos and other supposed crimes that are certainly not causing millions of deaths and hundreds of billions of health care cost.

• “Child Food-Porn” (Junk food advertising) makes our children obese & unhealthy
• Should Parents of Obese Kids Lose Custody?
• Childhood Obesity Promotion: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food
• Food Porn arouses Lust for Food with No Nutritional Value

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“Child Food-Porn” (Junk food advertising) makes our children obese & unhealthy. A 17 year-old cannot consent to sex  (hence consensual sex with a minor is rape). A 3 year old obese child REALLY does not have the capacity to consent to overeating on junk food. Without valid consent, a child is “seduced” to ingest substances that causes disease and premature death. Feeding harmful substances that cause long term damage to a trusting infant without consent is slow “child poisoning”. Knowingly destroying the health of an innocent trusting infant is a heinous felony, perpetrated by junk food advertisors, vendors, and parents. Why are feminists so unconcerned about our children’s health and long life, but obsess about possession nude photos and consensual teenage sex?

Food Porn” (attractive food devoid of nutritional value) has become prevalent in the last 50 years. It has led to the greatest health epidemic on earth: obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease. …. Food-Porn: food which has been calculatingly created and marketed to satisfy our food lusts without nutritional benefits. Constant exposure of our children to such “food porn” has led to obese children which exacerbates the current public health menace of obesity and sedentarism.

Food Porn at its best. Attractive looking worthless unhealthy junk food, expertly made up and photoshopped.

Making an entire generation of children obese and sick: a heinous crime against humanity Humans have an inborn genetic evolutionary propensity to like sweets and fat. This was useful in the stone-age savanna and forest in order to pick the sweetest ripest fruits and to enjoy the fat of occasional lean game meat. Nowadays, in the age of the supermarket with unlimited butter, oil, lard, and sugar, this maladaptive evolutionary heritage has to be countered by education and formation of good habits. Instead the opposite is happening: Children’s gullibility gets abused. Children are the target of ruthless advertising campaigns to make them even eat even more junk then the would eat naturally. Instead of teaching children wise choices, instead of making children into future healthy citizens, they systematically get turned into fat unhealthy monsters. Greedy marketers and spineless mis-informed parents create a publich health desaster. I call this a crime against humanity. We knowingly destroy the lives of our children. We are poisoning our children with junk, condemning them to a life of disease! There is something wrong about our system: we can fly to the moon, we can do open heart surgery, but we cannot feed our children right? And we can not prepare them to eat right and lead a healthy life? This is a public emergency which needs all our resources to solve. Of course, maybe we ourselves need to start eating right, too, before we teach our children.

5 year old children are totaly incapable of making informed decision about ingestion of junk food. The kid is not to blame. The kid is a victim of irresponsible adults.Adults are 100% to blame for the sorry state of this kid, condemned to a life of obesity. The true responsibility lies with the parents. But industry and society brainwashed the parents into getting bad eating habits themselves. And government neglects its duties by letting all this happen and poison an entire generation of an entire nation. Early Junk Food Training: Baby eating McDonald's Junk Food

Analogous to Food Porn, Human-Stupidity.com proposes a new term:

Child Food-Porn

“Child Food-Porn” depictions meant to entice children to consume “Food Porn” (junk food) “Child Food Porn”: Depiction of children or cartoon characters appealing to children in order to arouse children’s lust for unnatural unhealthy junk food (Food-Porn) Child Food-Porn: depictions of cute lovable cartoon characters with the intent to sell junk food to children. (see Cookie Crisp Carton to the right) Financial Greed destroying the lives of children Pure selfish greed earns money without concern for children’s health, by abusing children’s gullbility, children’s love for cartoon characters, children’s trust in the cartoon characters, and the human evolutionary “design flaw” to love sweets. Adults are the only ones to blame for the intentional perversion of children’s mind, for creating habits that will condemn them to a life of obesity and ill health.

Child Food-Porn must be combatted and eliminated

No more brainwashing children into obesity-causing eating habits

Consumption of “Food-Porn” (junk food) by healty adults and in moderation may be defensible.But advertising such perversion to indoctrinate children is irresponsible. Seducing children to live a life of obesity. A heinous crime But conning gullible children into adapting life threatening bad eating habits (“Child Food-Porn”), this is is plain criminal behavior. Greed that kills! Society should unite in the goal to totally exterminate this abhorrent plague from the face of the earth! With the same fervor & methods child pornography is being fought. Child Food-Porn (pictures to seduce children to eat Food-Porn (junk food)) has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever. It destroys children’s health and grooms them for future unhealthy eating habits as adults.

Food Porn (junk food) & “Child Food-Porn” (junk food advertising to children)
are the worst health threats of the century.

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“Child Food-Porn” [seductive advertising to make children into junk food (food porn) consumers)] is worse then any flu epidemic. It causes our children to be obese, who will become obese unhealthy adults and who will become role models for future obese generations. 30% of the population die prematurely because of child food porn.

Between 50 percent and 55 percent of the children said that the food with the sticker on it tasted better than the same food in the plain package. (The percentage varied with each food.) And between 73 percent and 85 percent selected the food in the character packaging as the one they’d prefer to eat as a snack.

Study: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food (cnn)
Study supports motion to pull plug on food porn: Cartoon-adorned packaging catalyzes America’s journey to obesity

It thus is proven that Child Food Porn is a causal link to premature death and obesity of a significant percentage of our population.

A study fom Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute indicates that the treatment for childhood obesity is ineffective. Children who were predisposed to obesity or obese were counselled by a GP but the counselling made no difference between them and the uncounselled group. This revelation comes a few days after the release of the strategy document from the National Preventative Health Taskforce, which predicts unimaginable consequences if trends of obesity continue.

We have A Situation. And we repair to the Situation Room to talk. And talk and talk. Then produce paper after paper. About obesity. About solving this huge problem through science and rationality.

But food is no longer basic chemistry and fat is no longer a mathematical equation of energy input and output. Food equals sport as our national hobby, fun, entertainment – or obsession. Response strategies require rational science fortified with social/cultural/emotional intelligence. And some non-politically correct intervention.  Food porn is making our children fat

U.S. consumer group says using popular characters to promote unhealthy food is ‘creepy and predatory’

Slammed: U.S. consumer group says using popular characters to promote unhealthy food is ‘creepy and predatory’The merchandise, which is also given to customers in Britain, includes toys related to the latest Shrek movie. Earlier this year it also had tie-ups with Alvin and the Chipmunks and Scooby Doo. The Centre for Science in the Public Interest says using the items to promote its Happy Meals is ‘unfair, deceptive and illegal’ under American state laws. Unhappy Meals: McDonald’s to be sued for ‘enticing children with toys’

Shrek toys are part of McDonald’s Happy Meals. (Credit: McDonalds)

(CBS) McDonald’s should stop toying around with kids’ health.That’s the message from a consumer group that is threatening to sue McDonald’s if they don’t stop using toys to lure kids into eating fatty food. “This advertising is unfair to kids and to parents who are put in the position of constantly telling their kids no,” Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which is threatening the suit, told CBS News. “The meals range from mediocre to miserable,” he said. “The calories range from moderate to high. Sodium is typically excessive, especially in the cheeseburgers and the fries, where a child is getting 3/4 of their daily intake.” Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the last 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Seventy percent of obese children have at least on risk factor for cardiovascular disease, they say, and are at “greater risk for bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor self-esteem.” www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20008571-10391704.html

Cartoon Characters peddling Apples!  A positive example!?

I can admit I’ve fallen victim. My daughter needed a grab and go snack, and she saw Mickey apple slices on the shelves. She asked because they were Mickey. I bought because they were apples. With the same characters in a different aisle on sugar-packed “fruit” snacks, the real thing worked for me. We’ve also been known to pick up Princess soup because she begged for princesses, and my first introduction to Hannah Montana came in the supermarket when my daughter started shrieking about the pop star on her yogurt. Again, yogurt, much better than potato chips! Trust me – their branding is working on my impressionable three-year-old.

But I’m not sure how I feel about Disney selling health food to my kid. Is it better than peddling the junk? Sure. [...] Frankly, I’d prefer my kid make her food choices based on things like “amount of whole grains included” or “no trans-fats.” I’d like to think she’d pick up an apple because we live in New York and have raised her on some of the nation’s best apples, not because there’s a cartoon character stamped on the flesh   Hannah Montana’s Gone Fruity

Sedentarism

We also have an evolutionary heritage of “laziness”, of liking to relax and be still. This was very useful when live involved constant movement, hunting, gathering, getting to places. In the age of the car, the elevator, of computer games and remote control, this laziness is unhealthy. Children actually have an inborn drive to move and play. Irresponsibly, parents and society tell them to keep quiet and lock them into schools behind benches, imbuing them with more wrong habits. Preventing a child from moving and exercising is another crime against humanity In this post I focus on food, but I am fully aware that exercise is the other part of the equation. Giving a child video games without control, allowing it to sit around all the time, preventing it from playing, that is another sin that condemns the child to future health problems.

Obese child sitting in front of TV eating junk food

I define pornography as something created and marketed to titillate human pleasure centers (almost always to enrich the purveyors) while offering no redeeming effects on the body, mind or soul of the consumer other than a temporary, short-term satisfaction of the more base human appetites.

Food porn, then, is food which has been calculatingly created and marketed to satisfy our food lusts while offering little to no benefit—and usually harm—to the body, mind and soul.

Our fast food is usually food porn, as is much of the food found in our chain restaurants. Our supermarkets, however, are also brimming with food porn. If you can imagine a supermarket layout in your mind, I would classify the great majority of items in the isle sections as food porn (the stuff on the periphery tends to be more good than bad—think whole foods).

Food porn, like common porn, takes the basic form of something good, but in reality it is something artificial, fake and full of illusion. I know you know what the common porn is trying to simulate, but what food porn is trying to simulate is simply real food.

Take bread. Bread is good, right? You know, the staff of life? I invite you to go and look at the list of ingredients of 90% of the varieties of bread in the center isles of your supermarket, which I insist are not bread at all, but food porn.
www.utahpeoplespost.com/opinion/2986/the-other-pornography

Great description. I could not write it better. Congratulations!

Just as Porn is fake unreal sex, food porn is unreal food.

“Food Porn”  has become prevalent in the last 50 years, and led to the greatest health epidemic on earth: obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease.

No real-world greasy fat-dripping Big Mac looks as sexy as this beauty on this food porn advertising photo! Unreal beauty to seduce like photoshopped porn stars.

If the casserole is missionary style, food porn takes its devotees into the foodie kama sutra.  It glistens. It drips. It uses props. It is both lusty and intimate. For those who partake, it is an obsession. skinnygourmet.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-is-food-porn.html

Food Porn just as damaging to society as Sexual Porn?

There exists another pornography just as insidious as the common kind, and just as damaging to society. The only difference is that we’ve societally accepted this other kind wholesale. Nearly all of us partake of it, and dare I say, are addicted to it.   www.utahpeoplespost.com/opinion/2986/the-other-pornography

I  beg to differ! 30% of the population overweight and suffering from disesases, premature death and early retirement due to disease., This is just as damaging as porn?

Food Porn (junk food with no nutritional values) kills Millions per year. Does Sex Porn kill Millions of people every year?

Repression of sexual Porn is a puritan religious crusade. I don’t want to get into detail if sexual Porn might even be positive (sex education, rape prevention, psychological outlet). Or if it is neutral. Or, maybe it is really detrimental for family life and for wasting  valuable time. But damage is very unclear. Sexual porn is very unlikely to take lives or to totally destroy the health of its “addicts’ like diabetes or heart attack would.

Food Porn (junk food) is proven to be the worst public health menace we have.  Together with lack of exercise, it causes obesity and diseases in a major percentage of our children and youth. Food Porn causes serious diseases and death in adults. And Food Porn reduces quality of life due to overweight and obesity.

I like to call this other pornography “food porn,” because it shares all the major characteristics of the more common pornography—except for the shame, that is. While common pornography is still something partaken of in dark, secretive places, there is nearly nothing so mainstream as food porn in the United States and in good ol’ Utah Valley.  www.utahpeoplespost.com/opinion/2986/the-other-pornography

Here we have the problem. Religion and society wage war against fairly harmless sexual pornography. And the pandemic obesity, the killer #1 in most “civilized” countries, carries no shame. Nobody is ashamed of eating a Big Mac, even if the eater is clearly obese. On the contrary: McDonalds and Coca Cola stock are excellent investments. And they help to increase  medical cost and thus help medical enterprises to have more profit too.

More about Food Porn

Food porn is a provocative term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media, foods boasting a high fat and calorie content, exotic dishes that arouse a desire to eat or the glorification of food as a substitute for sex. “Food porn” specifically refers to food photography and styling that presents food glamorously or provocatively, as in glamour photography or pornographic photography.

In the United Kingdom, food porn is usually acknowledged as advertisements where food is presented in an ‘arousing’ manner, for example; with water dripping from it in order to imitate a person with sweat dripping from them.

In the United States, food porn is a term applied when “food manufacturers are capitalising on a backlash against low-calorie and diet foods by marketing treats that boast a high fat content and good artery-clogging potential”. The origin of the term was attributed to the Center for Science in the Public Interest which began publishing a regular column called “Right Stuff vs. Food Porn” for its Nutrition Action Healthletter in January 1998.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_porn

Junk Food entices our children to destroy their health

Human Stupidity at its finest: We crate our children to be unhealty fat and sedentary. We actively entice children to become unhealty!

In the study, which is published this week in the journal Pediatrics, Roberto and her colleagues presented 40 children ages 4 to 6 with paired samples of graham crackers, gummy fruit snacks, and baby carrots. Each pair of sample foods was identical down to the clear packaging, except that one of the packages had a sticker of Shrek, Dora the Explorer, or Scooby Doo on it.

Between 50 percent and 55 percent of the children said that the food with the sticker on it tasted better than the same food in the plain package. (The percentage varied with each food.) And between 73 percent and 85 percent selected the food in the character packaging as the one they’d prefer to eat as a snack.

Study: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food (cnn)
Study supports motion to pull plug on food porn: Cartoon-adorned packaging catalyzes America’s journey to obesity

Probably everyone knew this already. The interesting thing is that the cause of premature death of about 30% of our population is not reason for concern and for emergency action and emergency legislation.

“Parents may not set out to buy unhealthy products,” says the lead author of the study, Christina Roberto, M.S., a doctoral student at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, in New Haven, Connecticut. “But kids can be really, really persuasive. They see them and they want them, and it gets difficult to have that battle in the grocery store.”

Facts about Childhood Obesity (CDC)

Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.^1,2

Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed) and is mediated by genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.^3,4 Childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term health impacts:

• Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. In a population-based sample of 5- to 17-year-olds, 70% of obese youth had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease.⁵
• Children and adolescents who are obese are at greater risk for bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor self-esteem.^3,6
• Obese youth are more likely than youth of normal weight to become overweight or obese adults, and therefore more at risk for associated adult health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.⁶

http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/obesity/

Childhood Obesity

	ON THIS PAGE Data & Statistics Science-based Strategies Policy Guidance National, State, and Local Programs References SEE ALSO Nutrition Publications and Links Physical Activity Publications and Links SPOTLIGHT Federal campaign launched against childhood obesity Connect With Kids: The Biggest Generation

Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.^1,2

Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed) and is mediated by genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.^3,4 Childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term health impacts:

• Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. In a population-based sample of 5- to 17-year-olds, 70% of obese youth had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease.⁵
• Children and adolescents who are obese are at greater risk for bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor self-esteem.^3,6
• Obese youth are more likely than youth of normal weight to become overweight or obese adults, and therefore more at risk for associated adult health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.⁶

But obesity appears to be the primary reason South Carolina mom Jerri Gray lost custody of her 14-year-old, 555-lb. son in May. She was arrested after missing a court date to examine whether she should retain custody after doctors had expressed concern about her son’s weight to social services. The boy is currently living with his aunt, and his mother is facing criminal child-neglect charges. [...]“It’s happening more than the public is aware of, but because these cases are usually kept quiet [as a result of child-privacy laws], we have no record,” says Dr. Matt Capehorn, who sits on the board of the U.K.’s National Obesity Forum.

Source: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1930772,00.html

Parents have an obligation to care for their little children. Parents face legal sanctions or loss of paternal rights if they do not provide basic care for their children, for example if children are

• undernourished
• unkept and dirty
• truant missing school education.

It actually makes a lot of sense, to add this list

• morbid obesity, obviously.
  • Unless if  proven it is not the parent’s fault andit persists after
    • medical
    • nutritional
    • and physical education interventions.

The epidemic of obesity that kills more people then all wars together, needs more serious attention. Actually, any lack of movement, any overweight should be considered abuse. The child has no recourse against it, and when it is a fat overweight diabetic adult it is too late.
Of course, this suggestion to require responsible parenting contradicts all  the

Faulty government policy regarding obesity & other health hazards (alcohol, …)

• Promote interest of big beef farmers.
• Let Coca Cola and McDonalds reign and advertise to children without health warnings.
• it is totally insane that the government does not have EMERGENCY plans against all these health epidemics.`Rather, government should be engaged in
  • promotion of healthy nutrition
    • natural,
    • low salt,
    • high in vitamins, l
    • low in sugar,
    • little additives
    • people should NEVER imbibe enough alcohol to get drunk or even tipsy. Alcohol should be taken like in mediterranean countries (Italy, France) who have a tradition of taking one glass of wine with meals.  Society should shun people who drink excessively and get drunk.
  • promotion of healthy exercise

  there should be government emergency programs to promote exercise for children and adults.