Speaker Comments:
The speakers reviewed some of the major topics in prevention today including the research on obesity and how prevention can bring down the cost of our health care system. Silent Venom film Much of the discussion centered on obesity in children, and particularly how the system in which humans operate has to change in order to encourage healthy behaviors.
Audience Comments:
The audience asked questions including:
•How can employers get people to engage in health wellness programs?
•Do incentives work?
•How do you get people to pay for prevention when it isn’t an immediate concern?
•How can you use stimulus and other money to change the system?
Key Quotes:
•“Out of sight is out of mind.
If junk food isn’t there then kids won’t eat it.”
•“If [junk food] is not at school they won’t eat it and they won’t eat twice as much at home.”
•“Humans are responsive to their environment and will make choices based upon what’s around us.”
•“Focus on changing behavior, not changing weight.”
•“7 conditions cost us $1.12 trillion a year in health care costs and lost employee productivity.”
•“People’s lives get in the way of thinking about their health.”
•“I have little confidence in the ability of education alone to solve the obesity problem. We have to build an environment where it’s easy to do what we want people to do. For example we could subsidize healthy foods.”
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