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Originally Posted by Libertine
Idiotic and ineffective.
If you want to fight obesity, you have to start before people are adults and focus on sustained learning rather than a single course. So that would involve implementing a program throughout high school and middle school, rather than forcing a useless course on college students.
That would also have the benefit of actually reaching the right group. Because, as well all know, the people with the highest chance of being obese (as well as smoking, for that matter) are those without higher education.
But aside from being ineffective and idiotic, this measure also suffers from another problem: it ignores the fact that these students are adults, and are thus supposed to exercise personal freedom and responsibility - especially when it comes to their own bodies.
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It will cover the ass of public health. When government is obliged to care for unhealthy citizens, they're going to lose money. This is just one of the hidden forms of payment for such socialised services - booze tax, smoke tax.... unhealthy tax paid with your freedom to be unhealthy. Realistically there isn't much legislation yet, but approaches toward regulating health throughout schooling are starting to pop up here and there.