Posted on 03/10/2014 1:22:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tolerance for regulation is growing even though we know little about its effectiveness.
There is a glimmer of hope for the fat countries of the world for Mexico, which has recently outstripped the US as the most overweight population in the Americas, and for Britain and Hungary, which vie for the title of Europes most obese nation. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a steep drop in obesity among US toddlers. While a seventh (14 per cent) of children aged two to five had a very high body mass index a decade ago, only a 12th (8 per cent) did the last time they were measured in 2011-12. The study has been somewhat oversold. The JAMA authors stressed that they had found, overall, no significant changes in obesity prevalence. But the good news among the two-to-fivers has left nutrition and fitness advocates fighting over the credit. Who deserves it?
Michelle Obama, the US presidents wife, is ready to claim her share. She is the public face of government campaigns against childhood obesity. In a press release issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the JAMA study, the first lady professed herself thrilled at the progress weve made over the last few years. But this progress largely antedates Mrs Obama. Most of the period covered in the JAMA study came during the presidency of George W Bush. Mrs Obamas exercise programme Lets Move was founded only in 2010. While she has assiduously promoted new, health-conscious school menus ordered by Congress and regulators, the menus themselves have been a flop. Scraps of meat, grainy pasta . . . As a critical government report euphemistically put it in July, schools have experienced various challenges related to student acceptance of some of the foods.(continued)
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I know there are "tons" of people here who hate the fatties, so this should get interesting.
Well, duh.
If the War on Obesity turns out anything like our ‘War on Poverty’ and our ‘War on Drugs’, we’ll all be Supersized before the decade is out..................
Everything the Rats do is an assault on our liberty. They literally want to control everything in your lives.
Michelle Obama, the US presidents wife, is ready to claim her share. She is the public face of government campaigns against childhood obesity.The Moose should concentrate her efforts on adult obesity - her own is a good place to start.
She's not exactly svelte and well toned in spite of the leftist media fawning over her arms.
She is trying to look at the dog, in a svelte kind of way, but finding the view is blocked.
Don't worry, the Republicans want that, too!
Are you referring to that bloated paunch filled with lobster and Kobe Beef?
Yes, but not all of them like the Rat party.
I choose not to eat processed food, only fresh, and I’m slender-but that is my personal choice, like my occasional cigarette and glass of wine. If someone chooses to be overweight, that is their choice-none of my business, and none of the government’s business. But I don’t want to hear them whining about how anyone else is at fault, or seeking government assistance when they get charged extra for 2 seats on an airplane, or because they are injured when they break a chair by sitting on it and fall. We all need to accept responsibility for our actions and choices-that is what adults do...
Michelle Antoinette has a fat ass and thunder thighs-she definitely does not practice what she preaches.
I never thought about it that way before. While I agree - choke - that one should not feed ones babies and toddlers bad foods and help cause childhood obesity, it is true that adults should be allowed to be obese.
Why is is saintly to engage in gay sex but sinful to enjoy pie and chocolate????
Let everyone live the way they want. We joyfully support peoples illnesses from bathhouses and anal sex. So let’s joyfully support sequelae from overeating as well!!
Raise your bars of chocolate!!! Be who you are! Come out of your pizza closets !! We’re here, we’re chubby, get used to it!!!!
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Is this sarcasm?
The problem isn't just that the government's trying to force us to take their advice - it's that the advice they're trying to force on us is the cause of the problem.
Sarcastic?? Yes, yes it is. ;)
Good to hear it.
it is true that adults should be allowed to be obese.
While I agree, I'd don't think many would choose to be so. Most aren't actually happy with being overweight, they are simply resigned to being overweight, because their repeated attempts to lose weight have failed.
What they don't understand is that the reason they've failed is not because they are slothful and gluttonous, but because the the low-fat, low-calorie advice that our public health officials have been pushing for the last 40 years is demonstrably wrong.
Oh, you are preaching to the choir. I was tongue in cheek, really.
People always complain about the taxpayers’ health costs from obesity (and they are not wrong), but the same folks scream for MORE MONEY FOR AIDS and other problems which can come from indiscriminate gay sex. I just wanted to make a little point about their hypocrisy. Gay is good, fat is bad.
And yes, indeed, the government going along with the carby food pyramid and the low fat craze definitely did it.
Honest food that tastes good, very little of it processed, and good, healthy fats will keep people satisfied, their brains fed, and enhance the nutrient absorption from the rest of their food!
Lol!! I had thought I’d laid it on pretty thick!
:)
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