The Ethics of Food
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Advising patients about how to prevent diet-related chronic diseases such as obesity, type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease presents significant challenges. Hardest of all may be communicating consistent and realistic messages, and ensuring that patients are willing and able to comply with this advice.
Because food choices influence and are influenced by economic, social and political institutions, it is difficult -- if not impossible -- to alter individual dietary behavior without also improving the economic, social and political environment within which individuals make food choices.
Excerpt from The Ethics of Food
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