I will try to be brief.
I've been listening to your comments and I find your research very interesting. Of course, this is such a complex problem that I'm not sure how we are ever going to resolve it. As you also pointed out, the industry is very powerful. The television, video game and Internet industries are very powerful indeed.
This is the social context: parents work and arrive home tired, they're busy, and young people end up in front of the television or on the Internet. In a way, this suits their purposes. I experienced that when I worked in a CLSC. There are prevention programs in Quebec and we found ourselves grappling with this. What interventions do you have in mind?
I really think we have to act collectively. You talked about raising awareness of obesity at an individual level and among parents in the community. But there is also a problem in the community. It may be beautiful weather outside, but you never see children outdoors anymore. They're all inside the house. Even if someone tells a child to go outside, often he'll end up being alone, because the others are all inside. So I really think we have to take collective action. In my opinion, the trend in our society is to value physical inactivity, as evidenced by the use of all kinds of different games, the Internet and television watching.
What action can we take in that regard? If we don't take any action in that area, we can conduct all the studies and research we want, but we won't ever find a solution, in my opinion.