School posters, virally marketed videos, healthy-eating classes, mandatory swimming lessons, minimum school-recess times, celebrity chefs in charge of school-meal recipes, bicycle lanes, junk-food ad bans, calorie-content labels, hectoring physicians, birthday-cake bans, monetary rewards for weight loss—they've all been tried, and they've all largely failed.
Se il problema è troppo complesso non resta che mettere in campo una moltitudine di intelligenze. In altri termini: non resta che la libertà.
Drawing a direct analogy with the effect of vouchers in the education system... Messrs. Seeman and Luciani suggest "healthy-living vouchers" that could be redeemed from different (certified) places—gyms, diet classes, vegetable sellers and more. Education vouchers, they point out, are generally disliked by rich whites as being bad for poor blacks—and generally liked by poor blacks. A bottom-up solution empowers people better than top-down government fiat...
Neil Seeman/Patrick Luciani - XXL: Obesity and the limits of Shame -
