Your nation's handling of Obesity?

[Picentia]

Bullying.

[Hokaida]

Considerating the enormous social stigma and the fact that obesity brings memory of one of the most hated king that ever ruled in Hokaida, most peoples do sports for the sole purpose of fighting obesity. Bullying is school is mainly due to obesity. Not the best way to fight obesity but it works.

[Iespon]

Causes of Obesity:
There are many causes of obesity such as diet, lack of physical activity, depression, genetics and other disease states. Thus we need to be precise in the categorization of obesity.

1) External Obesity = {Diet choice, lack of physical activity, food composition, environmental toxins, medications}
2) Internal Obesity = {genetics, hypothyroidism, other diseases}

Hypothesis: The broadest cause of obesity are diet choices, composition of food and lack of physical activity.

Solution/Testing:
Diet control is an individual responsibility. There is not much that the government can do to force people to eat healthy or not. However placing a penalty on poor choices may prompt the population to move towards healthier choices. Thus the Iespon government will start a program of placing a high tax on carbonated beverages (coke, pepsi, sprite, mountain dew, juice products ect). In the meantime soda companies would be recommended to significantly reduce sugar contents in their beverages and once such reductions have taken place the company can be taken off the high tax levels. Overall the method is to promote competition in soda companies to develop healthier drinks while also reducing the high sugar demand on the citizens. Along with this another possible technique is prevention of cars or motor vehicles in central locations in cities which forces citizens to walk or bike. A reduction in drive thrus would also be promoted.

[Autarkheia]

The government promotes health through intrusive programs and obesity is scorned as decreasing the fitness of the Folk to procreate and wage war. Unhealthy foods are heavily taxed though pro-business lobby groups push for deregulation.

[Ungvarnfjall]

It's highly uncommon, as people have lots of manual labor to get to-both men and women-so you either work or starve, neither of which really promote a lifestyle of being overweight. If we have any weight-related problems, it's probably people actually not eating enough rather than too much.

[Cat-Herders United]

Our traditional lifestyle involves riding around herding cats across the wilderness, so it is a very active lifestyle. Our food is very healthy too, lots of cat-milk, cat-cheese, cat-butter, as well as fruits, vegetables, beans, and fish. Not much sweets though.

So we haven’t really developed a problem with obesity yet.

[Eskaai]

Schools try to make children as healthy as possible. They are encouraged to keep fit and have a healthy diet.

[San Prospero]

*RETCONNED*

[Typhlosion Republic]

Typhlosion fights obesity by getting people to eat healthy. However, she thinks that the way this will happen is by banning fast food restaurants and raising the prices on snack food. It slims people down, sure, but those who want fast food will probably just go nearly anywhere else in the region to get some. Exercising is also encouraged.

[Manokan Republic]

Everyone is required to serve in the military, and thus receive nutrition and exercise guidelines as well as codes to stick to. It's great for a lot of reasons xD

[Lanoraie II]

Usually, a family member or friend will talk to them privately about their concerns long before they get to obesity, but if they're at that stage and are seeking help, they can go to wellness groups that focus on physical activity, or hire a life coach. It's not something typically seen in Lanoraie, however; the obesity rate is just 0.2%, and the overweight rate is 5%. There's more people underweight than there are overweight, and typically it's the older generations that carry a few extra pounds.

[The Fedaration of Russia]

We would usually encourage weight loss among the obese and overweight populace by putting posters and putting restrictions on food companies on what they can sell as food.

[The Huterric Union]

The Huterric Government does not see obesity as a "real problem" in the sense that it has always been the national view that obesity is an issue of oneself, not the nation. Thus we do nothing about it. No public health adverts against it. No taxation on junk foods. The Department of Public Health is much more concerned with tobacco consumption and asbestos to even give obesity a glance.

Huterric Culture has always seen those who are chubby as beautiful, so the people wouldn't be greatly for action either.

[Bluelight-R006]

To the public, we keep striving to push obesity out of the nation. 3% of Lightians are obese, and are gradually declining every year, however is also countered by the fact that a few Lightians are becoming obese, and that increases every year.

There’s no punishment, we’re very lenient, but it’s a health issue, which can affect your life, even if we have medical treatment.

[Hystaria]

We more have a malnutrition from the overwork that my people do. Sedentary life is rather unknown in Hystarian culture.

[Trinadaed]

5% of Trinadaedians are overweight, but about 0.25% of those 5% are obese, with the numbers slowly declining.

Obesity and whatnot is usually not a problem in government, but some doctors protest the government for not taking action against obesity.



A bigger problem now is malaria. Although non lethal with insanely good healthcare service, about 41% of the population is infected with it. This is because mosquitoes were recently introduced by foreign ships into Trinadaed and caused a massive malaria issue. The government provides free-healthcare services, so the problem is declining, since a lot of people go to healthcare to treat it.
Malaria is more common as one gets closer to the Trinadaedian Jungle Ridge, a huge rainforest in the center of Trinadaed.

Also don't forget about 47% of the population is a Scorpio Spikal and therefore cannot get diseases humans normally get due to the fact each body works differently. And, they don't eat too much. They're also herbivorous
Scorpio Spikals are a scorpion-like sapient species.

[Gutulia]

We have a national dietary program

[Five Nations]

We are planning to change way of buying fast-food by ration stamps.

[Felsigberg]

Its there fault, its not the governments job to make you eat healthy.

[Victorious Decepticons]

For Robots

The laws of physics dictate that a robot (or other machine, for that matter), not exceed the weight that its infrastructure can support. Otherwise, something will break - not 70 years later like with some biologicals, but within minutes to months depending on the severity of the imbalance. Alternatively, the person's engine simply won't be powerful enough to move the new load, instantly rendering his weight-bearing parts immobile. As you might imagine, this is a very strong incentive to making sure to do all upgrades in the ways taught by engineers.

Fortunately, we cannot automatically get heavier merely by keeping our Energon tanks full all the time, at least not beyond the weight of the fuel itself. Therefore, obesity - in the true sense - is not a thing among Decepticons. Poor engineering, on the other hand, is sometimes seen.

Engineering problems can be considered self-correcting from a species-wide standpoint, since many people will haul a disabled bot off to a foundry because it's easy money to sell him as scrap. Needless to say, we do our level best to never become unable to defend ourselves against these greedmongers. This includes being sure to upgrade our underlying weight-handling abilities before we add heavier body components.

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For Biologicals

We can very easily do custom DNA upgrades that simply bring a person's metabolic speed in line with however much they usually eat. That said, since we make more biologicals at our Cloning Centers, we just coded the ideal metabolic rate for their expected conditions into the Approved DNA Codec for their species. This metabolic rate has actually been made extremely efficient, rather than the other way around, so that we can feed them very little despite making them do heavy labor. If a Decepticon slave were to find itself freed and became able to enjoy a cush life, he would soon weigh 1,000 lbs. even on an "average" diet.

For foreigners, though, our ability to adjust metabolism can be a great thing. Just bring a suitably large payment of Energon or crude oil, and we can easily adjust your metabolism so that you remain lean on your current dietary intake. We can even adjust your Code so that your body is FAR more prone to use extra calories to create muscle instead of fat (even if you don't do any physical labor at all), so with enough food, you can look as buff as a roid monster without ever lifting.

Do keep in mind that such an adjustment to your DNA will render you unable to adapt to food availability conditions outside of the parameters that have been set. Therefore, it's best to only get this recode done if you are certain that your access to food will remain the same as it is now - for the rest of your life.

Also note that the specific nutrients you need will remain mostly the same, so you may still need to take vitamin and mineral supplements if your goal is to be able to eat thousands of calories of junk food a day but not much else.

[Sheboyganite Union]

Well all citizens are required to do a mandatory exercise in every Sheboyganite household