Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
Posted by M Morgan on August 6, 2020, 4:35 pm, in reply to "Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
If this ban actually works (remember the plastic bag ban?), there will be a lot more shelf space in OXXO for..???? | ------------Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
Posted by Valerie D on August 6, 2020, 5:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
in Oaxaca only, at this time, and the storekeepers are protesting. | ------------Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
Posted by Lynne on August 6, 2020, 9:32 pm, in reply to "Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
I think that kids are often sent to tiendas and Oxxos to buy junk food for the entire family, so this ban (if enforced) would simply require that someone older do the shopping. | ------------Prohibition, will it work?
Posted by Cruz on August 7, 2020, 2:07 pm, in reply to "Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
Hola, Lynne. I think you are right. Oaxacans will get around the rule, just as we did in the US around prohibition of alcohol. In Mexico, we love our sweets and now junk foods along with the coke and other sweet drinks. Coke, the main culprit, is insidious as it is manufactured with salt, masked with mounds of sugar to keep us both, thirsty and addicted. It isn't termed the 'coke conspiracy' for nothing. This company knows what it is doing and causing, no doubt about it. But it can't be sued like we did the cigarette companies in the US. Profit, profit is its only motto, and its billionaire owners contribute/ return almost nothing back to the community. Maybe so in bribes. Now we sit or ride, especially the kids, on computers, cell phones and motos. No more walking around the neighborhood, to school or at night, at the plaza, except during fiestas. So you couple this new diet propensity with less exercise and boom, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Reduction of junk food consumption may happen along with life style changes but it's a long up-hill trudge. Many of us are doomed, though at a slower rate, than death by pandemic. Cruz | ------------Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
Posted by Frances Jablonca on August 7, 2020, 9:29 am, in reply to "Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
One article spoke of both unclean and the sparse amount of water available to towns in Chiapas. Likely similiar situation for many towns whose populations then begin to rely on drinking pop. Could that be part of someone's strategy? The lack of water treatment in Mexico is a whole other can of worms but falls into the category of large corporations controlling important resources. It's scary to read but a book by Maude Barlow " Whose Water is it Anyway" is a must read. | ------------Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
Posted by Daniel H on August 7, 2020, 11:52 am, in reply to "Re: Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children"
Al Jazeera Latin America has picked up the story
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/mexicos-oaxaca-state-bans-sale-junk-food-children-200807114245453.html This topic was mentioned on this message board recently https://members5.boardhost.com/lamanzanilla/msg/1595539860.html You said "One article spoke of both unclean and the sparse amount of water available to towns in Chiapas. Likely similar situation for many towns whose populations then begin to rely on drinking pop. Could that be part of someone's strategy?" As president Fox said in the NPR interview "it was a different time back then" but Diabetes doubled during his presidency. To go back and prove that water availability was not given the level of importance that it should have been given is not productive unless you are going to file a class action suit against Coca Cola similar to the one against the tobacco companies in the US. Personally I would like to see Coca Cola treated the same as hard drugs and be made illegal. 80,000 deaths per year! When is enough enough? The bottom line issue (not just for corporations but humanity as a whole) is conformation bias. The information was there for Fox to see but he preferred not to look. Now Oaxaca has taken a much needed step in calling attention to the elephant in the room. What we are not reading about is all of the grass roots work that has been done in the past (and currently) that has led to the main source of diabetes being confronted on the level of legislation. It is a first step of many and will meet massive resistance by those who do not want the existing paradigm to change.
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