War on Fat Gets Serious - From statehouse to courtroom

LA Times ^ | January 3, 2004 | Melissa Healy

[JoeGar]

... Center for Science in the Public Interest ...

Anytime you see the words "Center for Science in the Public Interest", a red wack-o flag ought to go up. This is the anti-theater popcorn, anti-Mexican food, anti-SUV wack-o crowd.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It's their fault in the first place with their poisonous food pyramid and insistence on people adhering to it.

[leadpenny]

Yup! This thread's going for a thousand replies.

[Support Free Republic]

"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
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Make your statement.

[CDHart]

I wonder if this will be as successful as the War on Drugs? [sarcasm]

Carolyn

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A New Take on Weight-Loss Resolutions*** Paying more attention to the act of dining can also help weight-control efforts, Blackburn says. "When you eat, settle down, take 20 minutes to finish and think happy thoughts," he says. Don't multitask while eating, such as reading a book or watching TV.***

[Cincinatus' Wife]

July 7, 2003 - Vigilance urged for patients' lifestyle choices -AMA policy signals a renewed commitment to fight smoking, obesity and underage drinking.*** Delegates widely recognized that smoking was by no means the only lifestyle factor impacting health. Alcohol and obesity also got their due.

According to new AMA policies, the organization will work to create a higher level of awareness about the harm caused by underage drinking and encourage more research in this area. Taxes on tobacco and alcohol should be increased to fund health care and health education.

Several physicians gathered to form an alcohol caucus to push these issues to the fore.

"We have no interest in prohibition, but we are particularly concerned about the growing use of alcohol among adolescents," said AMA President-elect John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, who led the meeting.

AMA delegates also called on the organization to study and recommend changes to the government's food pyramid to reflect racial, regional and ethnic differences in diet.***

[Kerberos]

"Paying more attention to the act of dining can also help weight-control efforts, Blackburn says. "When you eat, settle down, take 20 minutes to finish and think happy thoughts," he says. Don't multitask while eating, such as reading a book or watching TV"

I have to agree with this statement because I know it works.

[savedbygrace]

An obese person would pay more for health insurance than someone of appropriate weight and would have no legal recourse if passed over for a job because of their weight.

The fools at the Science in the Public Interest apparently don't foresee the Unintended Consequences of this combination. The obese won't be able to get jobs, so their health problems will fall on the state and federal governments, and taxpayers will have to pay for them, rather than insurance companies.

But since they're unemployed, they won't be paying taxes, and the HoHo taxes they incur will be paid for with food stamps and other government handouts.

Science in the Public Interest is a dangerous organization, staffed by idiots.

[GeronL]

Howard Dean calls for government fat camps where they will "conquer fat by slaughtering the pigs!!"

[Kerberos]

"a nearly 40-year effort that has helped drive down smoking among American adults from about 42% in 1965 to about 25% today."

Well one has to admit, unlike the WOD, this program has actually produced some results.

[GeronL]

*** Paying more attention to the act of dining can also help weight-control efforts, Blackburn says. "When you eat, settle down, take 20 minutes to finish and think happy thoughts," he says. Don't multitask while eating, such as reading a book or watching TV.***

I bought the cupcakes and I will eat the cupcakes however I like!

Reading a book or watching TV while eating the cupcake does not make the cupcake any more fattening.

[leadpenny]

Don't multitask while eating, such as reading a book or watching TV.***

There goes my routine; Imus in the Morning, Cheese Doodles, and posting on FR.

[GeronL]

Taxes on tobacco and alcohol should be increased to fund health care and health education.

Several physicians gathered to form an alcohol caucus to push these issues to the fore.

These 'issues' are already at the fore.... we call them TAX and SPEND.

[GeronL]

#9

LOLOLOLOL

hahahahahahaha

oh please.

[GeronL]

Science in the Public Interest

No science involved... and they could care less about the public.

[Kerberos]

"oh please."

Hey, don't knock it till you have tried it. It basically is the same thing you mother use to tell you, "Chew your food 20 times."

[pawdoggie]

Another "absurd" Rush Limbaugh prediction realised.

[GeronL]

think good thoughts.... do not multi-task..... have ZERO effect on the fat and calorie content