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Daily exercise is key to health, but what we eat is by far the most determinate factor on our weight as well as our carbon and environmental impact.

Since 1980, the obesity prevalence has doubled worldwide with about 13 percent of the global population now registering as obese, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, nearly 70 percent of the population is either overweight or obese.

A lack of exercise and too many calories have been depicted as equal causes of the crisis. But as researchers put it in an article in BMJ, “You cannot outrun a bad diet.” See: The exercise myth.

This discussion on the far-ranging impact of how we are choosing to produce and consume food is important to grasp.  Watch:  What’s wrong with food in America

The debt bubble in China has helped to push levered capital into realty and financial markets around the world…When the bubble bursts in China, the shock is also likely to further deflate world demand and asset markets.

George Magnus, author and senior economic advisor at UBS, discusses China’s debt buildup, the economy and the possibility of a financial crisis in the country. Here is a direct video link.

A commodity bubble and bust followed by eight years of ’emergency’ rates since, have left a mark on realty markets in producing countries like Australia and Canada.

On the eve of the Federal Budget, Four Corners reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.  Here is a direct video link.