Obesity as a public health problem

Obesity should be considered a public health problem, since its existence shows us that there is a cultural problem: how we eat and what we can eat, a cultural problem that requires education, on the one hand, about habits healthy food and how conscious eating is an integral part of a good lifestyle, and on the other, the most important in my opinion, is that it requires a democratization of what we consider good nutrition, since not everyone can access vegetables all week, not everyone has time to plan their meals and not everyone has money to go to the nutritionist. However, there are also those who defend the idea that obesity or big bodies are not always synonymous with poor health, thinness has always been part of the hegemony of beauty, so the existence of big bodies revolutionizes that hegemony and shows that the existence of big bodies not necessarily mean sick bodies.

However, with regard to Chile, I do not know how feasible it would be, since economic interests are crossed as always with the well-being of the population, this avoiding, for example, that exist more restrictive measures on junk food in schools and that the “Healthy food” is accessible to the entire population and not only to those who can afford it. The fast food business is very profitable and provides a capitalist solution to the same problems that capitalism generates.