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What do you think its necessary to do for avoiding people eats non healthy food?

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Do you believe the new sticker system from Secretaría de Salud has more political than health implications?

Answer: That's totally true, as we have seen this label strategy is a bad implementation of what the government should do. Mexico has an uneducated society which believes that the government is doing the things right, but instead the government just wants the attention of the uneducated people which is more than the half of the population in order to convince that they are doing an amazing job. This strategy is just a lie that the political parties wanted to spread, so that the society thinks that they are actually taking acre of this problematic, but if you take the time to reflect is just a bad implementation which consisted on putting label in EVERY FOOD PRODUCT.

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As we already know, the labels of the Ministry of Health were implemented to raise awareness of the population and restrictions were made in Oaxaca so that children do not consume junk food, taking your research into account, that Do you know a strategy (it may have been applied in another country) to reduce adult obesity?

Answer: A few years ago, President Barack Obama implemented physical activity in private and public schools in order to reduce obesity since an early age. However, when Donald Trump won the elections, this strategy ended. But the USA government said that this strategy have worked in a proper way the time that it lasted.

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Do you think the new stamps the government implemented in food packages will reduce obesity rates in Mexico?

Answer: It might help to reduce obesity rates, but not as it should because of the bad labeling of products. Apart from the fact that most of the people don't even care about the nutritional information of food packages.

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Do you think the nutrition is the only reason for these diseases?

Answer: Not necessarily, just as there may be people with obesity who do not suffer from any other disease, there may be people who are not obese with these diseases either by genetics, or by some other factor apart from diet.

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Which recommendations should average people in Mexico should follow so they can avoid having obesity?

Answer: The recommendations are: going to medical check ups at least three times a year if you do not have any chronic diseases, if it is the case, then going with a specialist every 3 or 4 months, eating food with low amount of sugar and calories, adjusting a diet depending on their height, weight and age, drink 2 liters of water everyday, practicing exercise or any physical activity at least three times a week, consume vitamins, among others.

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Do you think the labels that are now on food will help to prevent malnutrition and obesity?

Answer: No, they are a bad strategy from the government, putting stamps in ALL the food products is not the answer to this problem, education is. At the end of the day, people will still buy these products even if they have a stamp, because they do not care at all of it. Even though, stamps appear on products which do have high levels of sugar or calories, people will still consume them, because we live in a society that doesn't care of their health.

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What do you think that could be the best strategy to prevent obesity in Mexico?

Answer: First of all, it is essential that people are informed about obesity and the diseases that derive from it. Also people should be encouraged by the governments to make and type of physical activity because most of the times people consume more calories than their body can burn and in addition of that, they do not do any type of physical activities.

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What alternative can you suggest to the government to make beside the new label system on food ?

Answer: A good alternative that the government should implement is to give a subject directly related to health including this chronic disease, among other eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia,  etc, this subject must be implemented in both private and public schools. In addition, another alternative is to encourage the population to go to medical check ups in public medical services in order to monitor their health.

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How would you approach the issue towards students of CCM in order to prevent obesity?

Answer: We think that the best way to approach not only this but and kind of problematic is with good, easy and complete information, so we would inform students so that they can see the real problematic that diseases caused by bad nutrition have become. Also it is important to encourage all students to perform any type of physical activity.

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Do you consider that government is giving the adequate information to prevent these disease?

Answer: We don't think that there is enough information about this diseases. Sadly, most of the times government do not care or do not give the attention needed for these type of problematics. And as a result of this, people start to normalize obesity as the governements do not give the example to prevent this disease and the consequences it might bring along.

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Do you think culture, education, society or the government influence the eating habits there are in Mexico?

Answer: We do think that those are factors that influence eating habits. For example: Mexican food culture mainly based on corn and flours, making it not as healthy as food from other countries such as Japan.
Also in Mexico people are not usually encouraged to engage in physical activity.
And the companies that make junk food advertise their products a lot, and as a consequence of this, people increase their consumption.

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What strategies would you place specifically in schools in order to avoid obesity in children? Different than the strategies placed by the government.

Answer: The strategies that the school must imply is to sell healthy products in their facilities, demand that the kids bring healthy products for their lunch, give a subject of health and bring a nutritionists in certain time of the school year in order to monitor their diets.

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What campaigns should the government take in order to educate people in Mexico about the implications of a malnutrition?

Answer: We consider that the campaigns need to be done in an atractive way for people to actually be interested in them. Most of the times the reason why people are not interested in this type of campaigns is because of the way they are done.

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What is your perspective on the new stamps on products that have excess of sodium, sugar, etc.? Do you think that, to some extent, they have helped prevent obesity in Mexico?

Answer: Stamps on products might be a good preventing measure, but the issue is that they are not applied properly. For example if you go to the supermarket and see a product that is supposedly healthy with a label of excess calories, or excess sodium, or excess sugar, people will start to ignore these types of labels since they are not applied on products that really cause damage to the person, and they will think that none of the lables are correct.

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What role do you think the government, population and multinational food companies play into controlling, reducing and/or incrementing diseases primarily caused by obesity?

Answer: The government should be the one that keeps encouraging people to take care of their health because it is a human right that we all must have. In addition, having access to free medical service along with information about this problematic must be mandatory because it is a right of public health. That's why Mexico has such high rates of obesity, since the government does not care at all for this issue. Also, when people have this diseases along with others derived from it, the public hospitals doesn't count with the correct tools and infrastructure to take care of the patient, so this is a right that the government is depriving from people.

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Taking into consideration psychological factors that cause people to be obese, do you think society incites or causes people to have this disease?

Answer: Yes, society incites this disease because our culture has created unhealthy habits that keep increasing mortality rates. Mexican families tend to eat unhealthy, or skipping food times, or drinking soda instead of water in the food hours, our consuming junk food because of their work. Those unhealthy habits have caused the increase of obesity in Mexico and if people do not attend to medical check ups because their afraid of what the doctor might tell them, then the situation gets worse.

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What do you think of the new strategies of the Mexican government with the warnings on food?

Answer: We consider that this might be a good stategy for adults as long as they are well applied and not simply label each and every one of the products we find in the supermarket. On the other hand, we don't consider that this is a good strategy for children as they don't understand the meaning of the lables such as: excess of sodium, or excess of calories, etc.

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Do you think that the strategy that the government did about taking off animated cartoons from fast food will turn down obesity levels in children ?

Answer: We don't think that taking off animated cartoons will reduce obesity level because first of all the kids are not the ones who go to buy the products, but the parents, and also we don't consider that the reason that children consume that type of food was because of the animated cartoons.

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Is it better to go with a nutritionist to have a healthier life-style and why?

Answer: We do think that going to a nutritionist is a good alternative not only for loosing weight or having a healthier lifestyle, but so that they can teach us how to eat healthy because a diet is not necessarily stop consuming candies, but to learn the quantities so that we consume the amount of calories that our body needs.

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What would you recommend to obese people who want to ameliorate their situation (to avoid the sicknesses you mentioned), but whose lifestyle and daily routine do not let them have a healthy series of habits?

Answer: Firstly, we would recommend to attend immediately to a nutritionist in order to change their food habits, but also to a cardiologist or an endocrinologist because they probably suffer other diseases due to obesity. We would encourage them to change their habits because if they continue with that routine he could be taking mortal risks.

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Do we have to visit a nutritionist  to know what diet works best for us?

Answer: Yes, nowadays Society has labeled nutritionists as a taboo when actually everyone should attend to one to know the specific requirements that our bodies need. We need to be aware that the diet that an influencer is promoting on their social media, is not the same diet that our body needs because all bodies are different.

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What do you think are the main causes for poor alimentation at such high levels in Mexico?

Answer: We consider that the main factor for bad alimentation in Mexico is that medias encourages people to consume these types of foods rather than promoting healthy eating or encouraging people to do physical activity

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In your opinion, how much does the socioeconomic status of a person affect their chance of developing obesity?

Answer: We do consider that the socioeconomic status is an important factor for a person to develop obesity mainly because the majority of junk food is the cheapest option so they rather for example eat a coke and a gansito, instead of spending more money on products for a healthy diet.

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How can we prevent obesity in our society?

Answer: We consider that is not an easy task, but the main way to reduce obesity is to educate both, parents and children so that they become aware of the consecuentes that obesity might have on them.

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What would be the best way to decrease these high rates of obesity and its consequences?

Answer: To change Mexico's unhealthy habits that we have created such as not eating at the same hour, skipping food times, eating junk food everyday, skip medical check ups, among others. Those habits must be removed in order to decrease the obesity rates. Education in Mexico is the clue to the solution of this problem, since we have seen that the government does not care at all for obesity.