Why is a healthy diet the individual's responsibility?

Is it isn't it and if it isn't, whose is it? The only person who is completely in control of what he or she eats is that person. So sure, it is that person's responsibility. read more

If you want to give someone else the responsibility for your diet, commit a crime and go to jail. Besides, different people have different ideas about what is a suitable and healthy diet. I was vegetarian for years, and would have recommended that as a healthy diet. read more

A balanced opinion would therefore suggest that lifestyle behaviours are influenced by a complex interplay of intrapersonal and extrapersonal factors. And responsibility varies for individuals along a continuum. Key Concepts: Individual personal responsibility for lifestyle choices lies on a continuum between complete free will and no choice. read more

But I do think that it is the responsibility of the government to educate the general public about the dangers of an unhealthy lifestyle. In addition, it is the responsibility of the government to to make sure our food supply is safe and to go after those who put the public's health at risk. read more

Because we don’t live in a nanny state. If you want to give someone else the responsibility for your diet, commit a crime and go to jail. Besides, different people have different ideas about what is a suitable and healthy diet. I was vegetarian for years, and would have recommended that as a healthy diet. read more

Providing people with genetic risk information may induce a sense of ‘fatalism’, the belief that little can be done to reduce the risk. Fatalism may be particularly relevant to perceptions of responsibility and control now that many diseases are thought to have a genetic aetiology. read more