Posted on 05/21/2015 11:38:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
That’s the British spelling of organization.
America is fighting obesity with a 250 pound First Lady.
In 2009 I spent two weeks touring Mexico with a Mexican family. I watched the people with great interest and one of my observations was that the poor were not fat. Many of the wealthier were. They have Indian DNA and because Indians went through periodic famines they tend to be much more efficient about absorbing calories. (I knew one here who watched every calorie and was still overweight.) There may be lots of fat people but taxes won’t change that. It’s genetics.
Another unrelated observation; Everybody I saw looked as good as they could look. When Mexicans leave the house their shirts are tucked in, their hair is combed and they look neat and put together. People here dress like they’re shopping at Wal-Mart.
*More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese.
*More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to have extreme obesity.
*About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese.
*More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.
Definitions may be overly strict, of course, but those are the statistics.
Have you been to Walmart recently?
I don't buy this theory. Until 200 years ago or so even the most advanced countries of Europe had frequent famines.
All other areas of the world even more recent.
200 years is not nearly enough to change genetic makeup.
“I don’t buy this theory.”
Europe had huge genetic diversity, which dampens out local genetic changes. The American Indians had little interbreeding. The local groups all went through the same famine and the fat-burner thin types failed to pass their genes on as often as the short fat types. The “Indians” we see in movies are either Caucasians dressed up or specially cast Indians who fit our image of what an Indian is. But the ones I’ve seen in Mexico are short and fat. I’m late to work so I’ll just say Google me wrong.
Government subsidizes corn. Corn is extremely high in fructose. Fructose is the worse sugar for weight gain...why do I have this feeling that whatever government decides to do, it will only make the problem worse?
Indians are pretty diverse.
Comanches tend to be short and fat, as do most of the Central American types. Others tended to be tall and slender. The Patagonians were referred to as giants by the first Europeans.
I agree Indians are less genetically diverse than Eurasians. Will consider looking into this more.
But it is still a fact that famines have been a constant in human history till very recently, all over the world. Moderns project the absence of them in American and European history for the last two centuries or so as if that was always the case. It wasn’t.
“But it is still a fact that famines have been a constant in human history till very recently, all over the world. Moderns project the absence of them in American and European history for the last two centuries or so as if that was always the case. It wasn’t.”
I realize that. We have been fantastically blessed, especially in the 20’th and so far in the 21st. All it will take to create the worst famine in all of human history is a very small nuclear war in the middle east. (My money is on Iran vs. Saudi Arabia.) Interrupt the flow of oil or even significantly raise the price and perhaps a billion people in non-blessed areas like Africa will die as never seen before.
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