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Originally Posted by CFrance
The intent of my posting the article is to point out that there is not a mega-cure for everything with diet.
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We're not talking about "everything" and I'm not sure what you mean by "mega-cure". Your interpretation of what I said is that diet is a mega-cure for everything?
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It doesn't seem to matter what diet you're on if air pollution is causing the obesity.
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How do you know for sure that air pollution causes obesity? Dr. Perera stated that there is a correlation between air pollutants and childhood obesity. She tracked 720 mother-child pairs. Then she said "there is a tendency for some children to become more obese." It doesn't sound very definite to say "there is a tendency". Nothing was said about the study having a control group for comparison purposes.
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Of course teaching children to eat right is an important component of raising a healthy child, but it is not the cure-all that some people propose it is. There are other factors that impact health, and preaching otherwise is a disservice.
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If you want to maintain a civil discussion, I think it's counterproductive to keep using the word
preaching. It's offensive. Suppose I took the opposite point of view that you are preaching about the evils of air pollution?