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To offer healthier options in schools vending machines and lunch options for students can influence their behaviors into what they put into their body on a daily basis. In addition, due to the growing technologies many people are walking less using cars, buses, and escalators, to get from one place to another. Therefore, environmental changes in the transportation systems and by having more stairs and sidewalk can allow people to walk more and to get their daily exercise they need in order to prevent from being obese. As Wexler stated, “ Policy makers were exhorted to create more community-based obesity prevention and treatment programs... They also were advised to enact public policy to create and maintain safe and accessible sidewalks, walking and bicycle paths, and stairs.” (Wexler 2007) However, the disadvantages that environmental changes follow by can be due to the limiting resources such as land to provide sidewalk in a community, or providing fresh produce to students due to funding of the school lunches programs or limiting access for fresh produce.
In addition, by promoting obesity as a major public health concern, more people are aware that obesity in the United States is a problem that needs to be address to show that obesity can cause major problem in their health. For example, by being more aware about the effects of overweight on health can cause a support of healthy eating and in physical activity. In the article of the mental Health Weekly Digest, it stated “...encouraging them to watch less TV can save