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all agitating for a panoply emment anti-obesity initiatives, including prohibiting junk food in school vending machines, federal funding for new bike trails and sidewalks, more demanding labels on foodstuffs, restrictive. I totally agree with Pg 395 2S I agree because There are other better ways in which,Balko stresses in this article that have a better direct impact on the decisions that consumers make without necessarily seeming to intervene in people's food choices. The government should enhance a sense of responsibility among individual consumers.Health care is counterproductive. I feel that health insurers are not allowed to impose higher premiums on obese and overweight clients. As a result, obese and overweight people do not have the financial incentive to make decisions that lead to healthy lifestyles. Private health should be managed by each individual yet this has been made a public affair. RADLEY BALKO is a senior editor at Reason, a monthly magazine that claims to stand for "free minds and free markets" and to provide an "alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines." Balko specializes in investigative writing on civil liberties and criminal jus- tice issues. He is also a columnist for FoxNews.com and has contributed to such publications as the Washington Post and Playboy. At The Agi- tator, his personal blog, he describes himself as a "small-" libertarian. This essay was first published on May 23, 2004, on Cato.org, a site sponsored by the Cato Institute, a foundation that aims to promote the principles of "limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace." Pg 395 entire 2paragraph I will always have a Argumentative stance when social media input is involve in hard challenges people face when it comes to in house situations of health choices. In my opinion social can be the wrong way to fight obesity because it’s is an attempt to manipulate consumers' food options. To me social media is a outlet that can misinform or represent an attempt to intervene in people's food menu which goes against expectations. That means freeing insurance companies to reward healthy lifestyles, and penalize poor ones. It means halting plans to further socialize medicine and health care. Congress should also increase access to medical and health savings accounts, which give consumers the option of rolling money reserved for health care into a retirement account. These accounts introduce accountability into the health care system, and encourage caution with one's health care dollar. When money we spend on health care doesn't belong to our employer or the government, but is money we could devote to our own retirement, we're less likely to run to the doctor at the first sign of a cold. We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices. Pg 398 the entire paragraph In my opinion we as a society assume that all race,class, and gender have the same access to a healthy wellness. Meaning access to the best of food choices, the access to the best jobs that allow a family to afford the healthy choices, the best access to time management to get to the best health choices. Are we assuming that the poor have the same choices as the people with a financial balance family have when it comes to having access to healthy choices of food purchases? We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices. Pg 398 last sentence In my opinion, this statement should aspire us all because when we truly understand choices and chances than life will be a much better place All thoughts was inspired from the reading of the article What You Eat Is Your Business By RADLEY BALKO