Welcome to Food for Thought.

     My name is Sue. I would like to welcome all bloggers to my blog Food for Thought.  This blog is for feeding your thoughts as well as my own. The thoughts here are mostly my own opinion unless it is noted facts from my research. The topic of today’s blog is on diabetes brought on by obesity.

    The growing number of obese Americans and the overwhelming number of diabetics growing in our society is alarming. The national statics show " More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese'. This being said the link below will show the number of people developing the disease of diabetes.
http://www.nmadiabetesnet.org.

      So my question to my fellow bloggers is  should the government place higher taxes or prevent the sale of certain foods. Could it help control the rise in obesity, and help lower the disease of diabetes Is there a fine line that is going to be crossed? I would like to know how the people in our country feel about this topic.