Posted on 10/16/2014 8:45:57 AM PDT by traumer
Some politicians come under fire for being corrupt or incompetent, but Belgium's new Minister of Public Health is the first political figure to come under fire for being too fat for the job.
Maggie De Block - who is Belgium's most popular politician and was once tipped as a future premier - surprised many when it was announced she would take up the role of Health Minister in the centre-right coalition which has just taken office.
The 52-year-old, who weighs in at more than 20 stone, was not considered to be exactly setting a good example in a country where obesity is a growing health problem.
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General rule: don’t take nutrition advice from fat people.
What their waistline is telling you is one of:
- the advice doesn’t work
- the advice is too hard too follow
- the advice is only for little people
Another general rule is: don’t take nutrition advice from governments.
In the specific case of the MyPlateOfMetabolicSyndrome diet from the USDA (which all other agencies parrot), read either “Death by Food Pyramid” (Minger) or “The Big Fat Surprise” (Teicholz) for the whole facepalm story of how we ended up with a flat out toxic official diet.
The some things you might THINK you know about diet:
- get most of your calories from “healthy whole grains”
- that amounts to 60% from carbohydrates, which is OK
- low fat is ideal
- avoid saturated fat
- use “vegetable oil”
- unfermented soy is fine
- count your calories
Suppose ALL of that is completely false.
Who would tell you?
Well, any number of paleo/primal/LCHF MDs have been proposing more sane diets for some time, but the most up to date guidance is “Wheat Belly Total Health” (Davis), which is about much more than the serious problems with wheat.
“Crikey! It’s Mrs. Creosote!”
ok....but one is enough
We’re ahead of the curve in the United States. Sure, we have do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do dietary busybodies dictating the country’s nutritional requirements, but we don’t elect them to office. They get there by marriage.
Whoa !
She made a statement to the press, but it must have been garbled in translation:
“Pah. Manga wanjee kohkpah (ooohl) Peecha wahnjee kohkpa tahng nahngee toochantkee troi. (puhhh) Fohtooh ma Solo kaychahlah.”
They must vote for them by the pound—or the stone. They get more for their tax money that way (?).
Is that Polynesian or what?
LOL!!!
As a friend of mine says, "She's big enough to burn diesel."
Personally I see their point, my Son was heavy as a child and we took him to a physical exam at our new HMO, the friggin DR. was HUGE, a good 400 pounds of opulence. The whale proceeded to berate my 12 year old son for all of about three minute before I told him to shut his gaping pie hole and follow his own advice first. It’s not that someone oversize doesn’t know of what they speak but it makes accepting their wisdom tuff on certain subjects.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She could be mayor of Houston!
Not “what” — “Hutt”!
Why do they still use the “stone” as a unit to express the weight of a person?
I remember the UK when they still had crowns, half crowns, shillings and farthings, but is the UK not on the kilo/liter/meter system, today?
Barely big enough for a Division 2 college lineman.
It’s Hutt, from Star Wars.
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