BTW, Trump does not drink or smoke. His commute is taking the elevator from the penthouse down to his office. His only exercise is coiffing his comb over, grunting on his wife, and getting in and out of the golf cart.
Posted on 09/03/2006 5:56:04 AM PDT by 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.
Which exists no more.
You're exactly the type of person the Founders recoiled at and the erosion of time has bestowed crediblity on your type.
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.
OOPS!!! LOL!!!
I COMPLETELY SUPPORT YOUR RIGHTS!!! WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??? (golly, you guys are dense...)
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.
Plenty of obese people in NYC and there is no Walmart here. NYC is even supposed to be a skinnier state.
When I see fat little kids with their fat parents I want to be sick.
That's fair, when it comes to smoking, I am a bigot. I smoked for 25 years, and now I can't stand the filthy vile things. My own risk of lung cancer and emphysema will never be as low as a non-smokers, and I'll have to live with that the rest of my days.
I suggested Walmart because its customers are a cross-section of society, just as the streets of NYC are.
Thanks for the ping.
I was at the allergist the other day and the nurse there is quite tall but looks pretty good weight wise, not fat at all. When she was at HER dr. recently, after he weighed her she pointed out to him that his chart declared that she was obese. He looked at her, then the chart, then her again and told her "Never listen to a chart".
It's just like with the LDL cholesterol standards; they keep lowering it and lowering it and ooops, dontcha know, all of a sudden lots of people now have cholesterol problems and need medicine to fix it. hmmmm....
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It's Darwinism all right. The fat gluttons will die early, and those who take care of themsleves will produce more offspring and live longer.
I had zoomed up to 215 LBS even though my job required walking 4 to 6 miles a day and lifting about 4,500 LBS of equipment. I even developed a mild case of diabetes. Now I am trying to reduce my caloric consumption. One danger is that a narrow food selection for their low fat, low sugar, low salt qualities can cause boredom. Since the main battle of a diet is hunger control, boredom sabotages hunger control. Boredom will lead one to binge eating which can cause one to lose control of their hunger battle. Going to an all you can eat restaurant after a diet of tofu and vegetables is a good example. After such a boring diet, such a restaurant would make one go nuts eating everything you can. Afterwards, you suffer. It would cause you to spend a week getting your hunger back under control. All the while your hunger can affect you thinking and job performance. For the work I do, to lose weight I need to exert enough self discipline to keep my caloric intake in the limits of no more than 2,000 calories a day. One needs to understand that with one eating binge one will undo the hunger control task. One should eat a wide variety of food to overcome the temptation of junk foods that have the seduction of high taste appeal.
Portion control is the key to hunger control. The way you set your portions will moderate your hunger control. I try to keep meals at the same caloric count. I eat small meals every two hours. I avoid high fructose corn syrup and other foods with sugar. A calorie book for different foods is a good method to set your mealtime limit. I found that if I eat a meal with a large caloric count, the next time I am hungry, it is harder to stop eating when my caloric limit is set lower than the calories consumed in the previous meal. I am tempted to binge eat. I call this the rebound effect. The previous meal will determine how hungry you feel at the next meal. As you get into a routine, the portion control becomes more predictable and the hunger felt after you stop eating you will have learned by habit how to deal with. This routine takes many days to establish because of the nature of the body's hunger mechanism.
Those who let themselves get really obese have a big task ahead of them to loose weight. What I have learned is a way to do it with the least pain. However, I am seeing nothing from these diet fascists in making the weight control--hunger control--as painless as possible. Because it can be a real painful cost, many will fail. With the failure, there are those who want to lay down more laws and lawsuits.
We lived in a welfare town for a LOOONG time and those welfare people had a great propensity to be fat but it wasn't for lack of money to eat right or lack of time in which to exercise. The ADULTS ate fine since they spent all the money on themselves (at least they couldn't get their hands on their kids free school breakfast and lunch money) and they had plenty of time to sit around and drink while they played computer games on their computers all day.
Lived there, seen that, hate welfare.
You seem to believe that you aren't.
Or are you unable to think abstractly?
Obligatory "LOL."
When one stops smoking the effects start to reverse themselves within 24/48 hours. Don't let that stop you from worrying yourself to death.
Repitition is one sign of a slow mind.
The manatees at the Mote Marine Museum in Sarasota eat lots of lettuce and they're fat. Must be the lettuce.
ROTFLOL!!! How PC.
That's for you to infer. I never said that. If anything...I reek of garlic!!!
BTW, Trump does not drink or smoke. His commute is taking the elevator from the penthouse down to his office. His only exercise is coiffing his comb over, grunting on his wife, and getting in and out of the golf cart.
So, you would consider yourself in the forefront of the "desirable" reproducibles.?
How, as an alleged "conservative" would Whittaker Chambers fit into your definition of "fat gluttons."
I'll give you time to do a Google on who he was.
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