New research has shown that global obesity rates have doubled since 1980. Doubled in thirty years! Before you get jealous that the rest of the world is catching up just know that America is still number one. Yes, amongst developing countries, USA still wears the crown as the fattest. USA! USA! USA! This article on the MSNBC website warns that the increasing numbers of obese people could lead to a "global tsunami of cardiovascular disease." I know this isn't funny but put on your visualization cap and picture a global tsunami of cholesterol plaque just washing over entire cities. It's not pretty.
Once again I want you to remember these numbers as you see ads for the supposed global hunger epidemic. Question them. Ask how can there be so many hungry people (especially in developed countries) if the obesity rate has doubled? The response will be the bogus term "food insecurity". Yes, I agree, the world is hungrier and we are getting fatter because of it.
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It is possible to be obese,hungry and malnurishied (or undernurished), all at the same time. See Gary Taubes "Why We Get Fat and what to do about it" or, even better his book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Very good science reporting.
I read an article yesterday that described a program of Bariatric Surgery for obese children. You have got to be kidding me!!! Take away their junk food and soda pop! Get them off their fat butts and make them exercise! Yes it hurts for a while, but long term it helps them.
As all enlightened Doctors, and informed citizens know, the Food Police have it all wrong. Simple carbs, such as grains, sugar,rice potatoes, etc. are not the answer to good health and a slimmer physique. It is proteins, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and complex carbs. Vegetables, such as those that look pretty on your plate, the reds, green, and yellows. These along with nuts, seeds, and herbs will enable diabetics to reduce, or eliminate their insulin, benefit arthritics, and thyroid patients,along with many other health problems. Check out Neanderthin: Eat Like A Caveman, and Dr. Robert Atkins Diet which was much maligned by those very food police in the 70's, such as the unenlightened first lady now preaching on a subject on which she is woefully uninformed.
Both books should be available at your local library.And both give you detailed information, and recipes to enable your successful transition into good health.
"Trust, but verify." It could save your ife, and enable you to have many healthy years of life.
I come at this from a different angle, and as usual, a libertarian one. I a private individual wants to be big as a damn house, I don't care. Stuff away free man or woman, eat to your heart's content, and have that supersize with extra cheese and gravy! Really, I mean it!
But don't demand that I pay for it. Don't hit me up for extra Medicare unfunded liabilities because you couldn't keep your diabetic claws out of the candy bowl. Don't expect me to acquiesce over increased Medicaid taxes because herds of food-stampers are driving Cheeto's stocks through the roof and want to enrich the bariatric surgeons. If you are so damn stupid as to have a 200 lb 9 year-old (true story) then its sad that the kid had such a lousy breeder; that does NOT justify taking from everyone else to fund the critical care (and eventual nursing home) that is the end result of your unwillingness to say "NO."
I am for free choice and for busybody doctors staying the hell out of everyone's business, except when an individual asks for help and counsel. Nutrition is great and still the most effective weight-loss prescription of all is "Nikes, one pair - use PRN "
But if you don't want to use it, preferring rather to start working on your own bountiful crop of bed sores, and will just keep your hand out of my pocket and your finger off the 911 button, then by all means bon apetit!
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