Nutrition should be a required subject in every school starting in populations as young as 10-12

The amount of people who do not understand what a calorie is and how they work with your body (I used to be one of them until self education) is astounding. The reason these fad diets and crazy fitness marketing strategies work is because people are not educated. I was never once told what calories were (except you can find them on labels) and how you need X amount of calories and if you eat X-a calories you lose weight. People who follow diets such as Atkins, Paleo, etc lose weight yet they don’t understand why they lost the weight. They fail to understand the core principle at work because they were never taught it.

It’s such a simple thing to know and yet no one seems to talk about it or understand it. How can you fix America’s obesity problem when a large % of the population doesn’t even understand why they’re obese to begin with.

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