Posted on 08/25/2011 4:13:40 PM PDT by martosko
In a multi-part series published Thursday, the British medical journal The Lancet recommends national governments impose new regulations and taxes to stop an “obesity epidemic” that is sweeping the planet.
The respected peer-reviewed journal lays out how the world has seen “four decades” of a “rising obesity epidemic.” One paper from Columbia and Harvard University researchers concludes that if “historic trends continue” there will be “65 million more obese adults in the USA and 11 million more in the UK by 2030.” The authors also write that obesity “is increasing in all countries, but rates vary widely.”
In an editorial, The Lancet says the obesity problem lacks a solution because “governments’ reactions so far are wholly inadequate and rely heavily on self-regulation by the food and beverage industry … [T]he obesity epidemic will not be reversed without government leadership.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedc.com ...
A world-wide famine!
Think of all the obese people whose lives would be saved... for a little while.
Personally I think the rising cost of food will help with that. I went to the market today bought a loaf of wheat bread, a loaf of sour dough a dozen eggs and 8 oz of cheese. The cost was $9.32.
When did 7 blade roast start costing $7.99 a lb, can’t even make a pot roast. (enough rant)
Keep using food a fuel and they mey get the famine they want.
The UK doesn’t get it. When you start making food..any food... too expensive by TAXES..the food riots will make the thug party look like a picnic.
How about fines for being too obese. Have them report to weigh stations every other day.Make them were ankle weights. There are not enough big government controls already. What we need is more. NOT.
These regulators of all in the kingdom, are like fat cows, grazing on one regulations issue until it is worked to death, and moving on to the next. All the while, they are throwing out massive cow pies to gum up the system.
> Harvard prof, medical journal: Food taxes, regs solution to
> global ‘obesity epidemic’
Which of us is surprised that a Harvard publication would advocate more taxes and bigger government?
You know, when I was a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s, fatties were rare. There was usually some kind of glandular or metabolic problem that caused kids to be fat.
Because *ALL* of us were outside PLAYING HARD all day long in the Summer, after school in the winter, and on Saturdays. We played baseball, basketball, hockey, ice skating and sledding just for the thrill of it. You know, when you sled down a big hill, you have to walk back up towing your sled behind you.
We had no cell phones. Many of our homes did not even have telephones or TV. Nobody worried about where we were or what we were doing. There were no perverts to bother us, because we usually gathered in groups, were pretty tough, and the authorities electrocuted and hanged perverts or put them in jail for life.
I would leave after breakfast and my mom wouldn’t see me until supper. If she wanted me for something, she would send one of my uncles or siblings to find me. I could usually be located at the park, or at the swamp (skating) or at a friend’s house.
As teens, we WORKED HARD at mostly physical labor in factories or construction. That’s how a lot of us paid for college. I worked at one of the family businesses after school, and on Saturdays, and on Sundays, I worked at the car wash.
I never had any trouble with weight, except that I was a bit skinny, even though my Italian mama cooked the world’s best meatballs and we STUFFED ourselves indiscriminately.
We ate large, played hard, worked hard, and never, ever got fat.
We don’t need any more government regulations or taxes. What we need is for the government to burn the perverts and get out of the way so the kids can work and play and eat the way God intended.
If we’re so damn unhealthy (aka fat), how come we’re living so long. The majority of the elderly people (over 80) that I know are overweight and have eaten meat, potatoes, bread, butter, eggs and chocolate cake or apple pie all their lives. And they’re not on meds.
“telephones or TV”
You’re forgetting party lines and the very small TV screens with the rabbit ears you had to whack every so often.
...the world has seen “four decades” of a “rising obesity epidemic...
Four decades ago the left was telling us how in 4 decades there would be world-wide famine. Wish they’d be a little more consistent in their fear-mongering.
> “telephones or TV”
>
> You’re forgetting party lines and the very small TV screens
> with the rabbit ears you had to whack every so often.
:) :)
Yeah, we got a TV in 1954. It was an Admiral. It came in a heavy walnut cabinet with a phonograph and a big old tube radio. The early equivalent of an “entertainment center.”
The TV never really worked well. Mostly all we got was the tuning pattern, you know, the circle with the bulls-eye and the cross-bars and the 440Hz tone. I remember my dad trying to fix the thing on more than a few occasions. He actually got it to work from time to time, and we were able to see things like John Cameron Swayzey’s news show, and Sid Ceasar’s Show of Shows.
We got our first telephone in 1957, but it was actually a private line. Imagine that! Maybe it’s because my dad waited so long to get one.
:)
The kids were always physically active; playing baseball, cowboys and Indians, and etc. They would play until dinnertime and after dinner would play until it got dark. The moms would be out hollering for their kids to come home. It was time to come in and get ready for bed.
Now everyone distrusts their neighbor and the kids have nowhere to play or are afraid they will be taken by some pervert. No longer do they play until dinner time or go out again to play until bed time. Instead, they have the security behind their locked doors for mental amusements.
Some of the obesity is the natural product of an aging society. With the Baby Boom generation moving into the upper ages, there is a larger number from this demographic sector contributing to the obesity numbers.
Sounds like how I grew up. It really makes me sad to know that kids today cannot grow up the way we did. I was just telling someone at work today: Heck we were gone ALL day during the summer. The only requirement was to to be home by supper! And if you didn’t make it, you didn’t eat! (Unless Mom took pitty on us and snuck us something later. LOL)
obesity = not a problem in Somalia
Why can’t we be more like Somalia, except with taxes?
Harvard professors are the problem
Move out of California!
IIRC, a “7 blade” roast has a bone. Here, boneless chuck roast is under $3/lb. Bread runs about $2.75 and is less if you bake your own. Eggs are $1-$1.80/dz, depending on size and venue. Cheese is expensive, especially if it is good cheese.
$8 is the cost of rib eye in the upper Midwest.
Holy smokes. I was going to make a pot roast and the 7-bone was $7.99 lb, carrots are $1.99 lb. Rib-eye on sale last week $9.99 lb.
My East Coast friends tell me food prices are way high there, as well. I can’t imagine why, unless it is unionized grocery employees.
We routinely see sale rib eye, trimmed and thick-cut, for $5.99. Even seen it for $4.99 on Manager’s Special markdown. Even T-bone and Porterhouse are usually $8.99, although they can go up to $10.00. I just wait until they are in the sale case. Around here, an amazing number of people refuse to pay for a bone-in steak.
If you have a Sam’s Club, you can usually get cryovaced whole muscle cuts for about $1/pound less than pre-portioned cuts. We do this all the time and portion the meat ourselves. You are paying for a lot of poundage, but, OTOH, you have a freezer full of good cuts for months.
I can tell you that right now, our Wisconsin pastures are full of Black Angus steers, so there is no shortage and we have great grass and corn, this year.
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