Diabetes In The Film Bite Size

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In the film Bite Size, one of the four children who is interviewed is an 11-year-old boy named Moy who is on a slippery slope towards diabetes because he is a very inactive kid who loves to snack throughout the day. Moy doesn’t see a need to change because his father, Felipe, sits around all day and eats the same things Moy is eating himself. Moy struggles with unhealthy habits; his father has a very unhealthy appetite so this leads Moy to believe that he shouldn’t have to listen to what his father has to say about how being healthy is important because if his own dad is doing one thing, why shouldn’t he be able to do the same?

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