[Theoria]

Gary is a great.

[Venturer]

The Germans had an anti-obesity campaign against the Jews at Dachau.

I think I will just stay fat.

[driftdiver]

Stupid article. Actually using WWII era nazi culture as an example.

[Obadiah]

Hmm... let's see, if government controls the health care in the nation, and they control the fuel supply in terms of high cost, and then the food supply, then they have their collective hands tight around the throat of the populace. A little national squeeze here or there and it will be funny how quickly people will fall into line with government coercion.

[discostu]

Even he misses the point. It doesn’t matter what part of our diet is the “cause”, the reason all these programs fail is the same reason the WOD fails, people don’t give a crap. When the government tries to tell a whole bunch of people who are engaging in voluntary behavior to stop because it’s “bad” in general the people don’t listen. I dropped pounds because I wanted to, not because the government said anything, I didn’t like being fat so I stopped, it was a hard trip but it was worth it for me. For others, not so much. They’re eating food they like, doing activities they like, not doing activities they don’t like, and when the government starts bitching and moaning they change the channel.

[trailhkr1]

Obesity= basically calories in calories out and we as a nation are getting less physical excercise but this statement below is also a factor-

There is an alternative theory, one that has also been around for decades but that the establishment has largely ignored. This theory implicates specific foods—refined sugars and grains—because of their effect on the hormone insulin, which regulates fat accumulation.

Way too many processed foods in diets today.

[eclecticEel]

I don’t know why he’s demonizing the food pyramid - honestly, how many people structure their diets according to its dictates in the first place?

[Gulf War One]

Government. Food. Pyramid.

Try Paleo. That's our more natural diet.

[jimmygrace]

The pinheads are blaming Twinkies and soda for obesity the way they blame guns for crime. Murder and robbery is a sin, but so is sloth and gluttony. If they used an approach of personal responsibility and personal pride... but no, you can’t mix state and religion.

[Signalman]

The lowfat craze started in the 1980s and peaked in the 1990s. The experts told us to cut out meat and fat and eat lots of pasta, and grains and even sugar was OK. Just as long as it’s fat free. This lowfat campaign, “coincidentally”, happened at the same time as the explosion of obesity and diabetes took off.

Turned out the “experts” were all wrong.

[G Larry]

Parents don’t parent anymore.

Mother’s don’t cook and prepare “healthy” family meals.

Kids are inactive, they have fewer siblings to play with, they’re playing with electronics, recess activities are so “safe” that they can’t be termed “activities”.

[MrEdd]

Another thing that is nonnegotiable to swallow the BS on the modern obesity problem: you must under no circumstance study crowd photographs taken before the first World War.

Before the rationing of the two world wars, sandwiching the great depression people ate well and a whole lot of them were fat. If you only have a mental picture, rather than inconvenient empirical evidence then you can imagine they were all fit and trim.

[freekitty]

When you have Wookie Wide Load and Bloomy Pants running it; there’s your answer.

[Wordkraft]

Government intervention on this, and other personal issues, fail because the citizens say, very loudly, “Mind your own F’ing business!”

[Mr. Jeeves]

The latest clinical trials suggest that all of us would benefit from fewer (if any) sugars and fewer refined grains (bread, pasta) and starchy vegetables (potatoes). This was the conventional wisdom through the mid-1960s, and then we turned the grains and starches into heart-healthy diet foods and the USDA enshrined them in the base of its famous Food Guide Pyramid as the staples of our diet. That this shift coincides with the obesity epidemic is probably not a coincidence.

Come on - take the next step: Dr. Atkins was absolutely right, and Archer Daniels Midland bought off the government to say otherwise.

[Perdogg]

I saw some of that crap on HBO, it pretty said that we should treat “big food” like we treat “big tobacco”. Which means nationalization of food.

However, I think we need more specific definition of what obese is rather than on a bmi number. I have been labeled as “obese” but I doubt any one who truly obese could do the workout I do every week.

[mo]

See the “Pure Food and Drug Act”- 1906....

Grants the USDA the power to regulate the food industry as well as the CONTENT of the American Diet.

[trisham]

I’ve seen a number of photos from that time and the vast majority of the people in them were very thin.