Obesity pandemic engulfing world

Breitbart.com ^ | Sep 03, 2006 | AFP

[Mrs. Don-o]

Obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the greatest single contributor to chronic disease, an international conference was told here.

"This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world," Australia's Monash University professor Paul Zimmet, chair of the 10th International Congress on Obesity, said on the opening day of the conference.

The spread of the problem was "led by affluent western nations, whose physical activity and dietary habits are regrettably being adopted by developing nations," Zimmet told more than 2,000 delegates.

The world now has more fat people than hungry ones, according to World Health Organisation figures, with more than a billion overweight people compared to 800 million who are undernourished.

The congress on obesity is held every four years, with the last three staged in Toronto (1994), Paris (1998) and Sao Paulo (2002).

"The conference will treat obesity as the keystone of all health priorities because it is the single greatest contributor to chronic disease throughout the world," said University of Sydney professor Ian Caterson, the event co-chair.

"There are now more overweight people in the world than undernourished and we are seeing the double burden of the extremes of malnutrition -- undernutrition and overnutrition -- in many developing countries.

"We know this is not about gluttony -- it is the interaction of heredity and environment. We know that small changes can make a big difference in peoples weight and health."

Zimmet said the problem needed urgent solutions -- not just widespread changes to diet and exercise but the rethinking of national policies on urban and social planning, agriculture policy, education, transport and other areas.

He also warned in an opening address that the growth of obesity-related diabetes, or so-called "diabesity", was set to bankrupt health budgets all over the world.

Around 370 speakers and presenters at the six-day congress will discuss a range of issues, including scientific research on how the brain regulates energy and advances in the prevention and clinical management of obesity.

The conference is being attended by academics and health professionals from Australia, Japan, the United States, Britain, Canada, Sweden, Indonesia and New Zealand.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Last timer I saw that fat, bloated sweathog, she was so well fed, she alone could have fed a medium-sized village for a week!

[metalurgist]

Government has no business taking my money and producing stupid :public service" announcements unless we are being attacked, invaded or a pandemic is under way. I don't want to be taxed to have a politically connected advertising group tell me to eat my fricking vegetables, brush my teeth and get plenty of exercise and rest.

I'm grown up and don't need a mommy.

[SheLion]

Actually, I don't think of you in that way at all. It was an attempt at humor. Sorry if I offended.

Well, apology accepted.  Thank you!

That sure is some gross picture though.  LOL  And I am sure a lot of people's computer area does look like that.  But I couldn't stand it, myself.  My whole computer system is black (a Dell) and I have to dust it a few times each day.  I can't stand dust on it even.

Although I HAVE dropped some ashes on the keyboard at times when I get hot and heavy over the smoking issue.  haha!

But you didn't offend me.  Especially now that you told me you did not mean it that way.  Thank you!!!!

[SheLion]

Fox is no better than anyone else when it comes to the "Crusade du Jour," unfortunately.

I've emailed them several times in the past week about their bashing of smokers.  And I keep reminding them that they are "Fair and Balanced??"  Well, they sure aren't when it comes to their fans that smoke.  I'm getting just a little tired of it!

[Madame Dufarge]

I don't want to be taxed to have a politically connected advertising group tell me to eat my fricking vegetables, brush my teeth and get plenty of exercise and rest.

Uh oh.

Resistance to assimilation into the hive is tantamount to a crime against humanity these days.

The neighbors are ever vigilant.....

[paulat]

I can feel my brain cells dying even replying.

Must be painful to lose both of them...LOL!!

Hey... chill!

I support your right to be disgusting! I really do!

Repeating #297

[Madame Dufarge]

They're riding the tide.

Nobody gives a damn about smokers because they're a minority.

Mob rule has taken hold.

It'll be some time before the rest of them get it, and it might be too late by then.

Shame on them.

[Madame Dufarge]

I support your right to be disgusting! I really do!

As I support your right to display your stupidity to the universe. I really do!

[paulat]

Repeating #297.

[SheLion]

When you made the above post, I took it to mean that you agreed with their stats.

Oh Lord no!  Any of those idiots can pad the numbers and make the stats come out the way THEY want them to be.  And sadly, the general public believes it. 

Medical Liars - Do It For The Money

The American Heart Association

Admits It Deliberately Lied

To The American Public

Don't Trust Your Doctor

Cancer Society fined for lack of disclosure in anti-smoking ads

There is another link about the American Cancer Society lying about their numbers, but I haven't been able to find it yet.

[isom35]

even in Ethiopia?

[raybbr]

Hmmm..... I didn't think if you quite that way.

More like:

No offense intended here either. Actually a compliment. Hope you take it that way.

[SheLion]

Wow! paulat! Where have YOU been? We haven't seen you on the smoking threads bashing and trashing us for quite some time now!

[metalurgist]

Thanks to the long nosed nanny staters, my children are no longer permitted to bring cup cakes or candy to school when it's their birthday or a holiday to give out to their home room classmates. The GOVERNMENT has proclaimed that there will be no "UNHEALTHY" snacks allowed in school.

[paulat]

Been lurkin'.

Just to reiterate:

You misjudge me. I am fully for your rights to smoke. You are disgusting, you smell disgusting (espcially when you can't smell yourselves) and I don't want you around me.

Do you have a right to have places to smoke? Yes.

Do you have a right to have restaurants/taverns to smoke? Yes.

Are you disgusting and filthy? Yes.

I support your rights completely, because the next thing you know, they'll be comin' after me.....

[Madame Dufarge]

You misjudge me. I am fully for your rights to smoke. You are disgusting, you smell disgusting (espcially when you can't smell yourselves) and I don't want you around me.

Do you have a right to have places to smoke? Yes.

Do you have a right to have restaurants/taverns to smoke? Yes.

Are you disgusting and filthy? Yes.

Honestly,Carrie, if it were within my power I would have gotten you a date for the prom.

But can't you just put it all behind you and let the wound heal?

Must you carry the bitterness to the grave?

Why weren't you able to grow beyond the experience, as normal adults do?

Why are you people so frozen in time?

Adolescence is a hard time for everyone, but some never seem to get beyond it, like you.

Acknowledging your role as a social engineer, I'm curious why your type has never explored this phenomenon.

Wait - let me guess - lack of government funding?

[paulat]

Okay...rinse and repeat...rinse and repeat...

Do you have a right to have places to smoke? Yes.

Do you have a right to have restaurants/taverns to smoke? Yes.

Are you disgusting and filthy? Yes.

[kittymyrib]

Oh for the good old days when people were starving!

[durasell]

You know what they say, you can't be too fat or too poor.

[Madame Dufarge]

The poison the educrats pour into their brains every day is AOK, though.

But NO CUPCAKES!!!

I imagine these are the same conversations that took place at the dawn of the fall of Rome.

People better start sitting up and taking notice, real soon.