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.
Again (why must I repeat everything???) There are Admin Moderators who take care of personal attacks. Please feel free to contact them. They are there to help you.
When you are offered the product at wholesale for being a good customer and refuse to pay that in order to pay a higher price you are acting a fool. I learned that the hard way the first (and only) time I refused the lower price. The gentleman I buy my clams from gets a wholesale price from me on jelly and preserves. It's called commerce.
We are capable of conducting business without the government interfering with our commerce.
Gabz is after me...pls advise if I've done anything wrong!
I saw it, SL.........but I'm a bit slow in responding - there have been things going on here - like dinner - that took me away for a while.......
AMEN...........
Again...I wouldn't think of giving them anything less than market price. It's what keeps family businesses in business.
Nite Gabz.
:-)
When I see the apology for your personal attacks on several of us, I will then acknowlege you may be sincere.
I know.
I lost 50 pounds in high school.
Now in my 40s, it has taken me 5 years to lose 30 pounds.
And it requires smaller portions, not eating X-gazzilion of food XYZ.
Why is the left so concerned? If true it will solve the Social Security problem they profess to worry about.
Do you have a right to have places to smoke? Yes.
Do you have a right to have restaurants/taverns to smoke? Yes.
Is smoking disgusting and filthy? Yes.
I support your rights completely, because the next thing you know, they'll be comin' after me.....
Well said, and sadly, so very true.
And though you have the reek of passive-agressive cowardice about you, I support you rights completely, also.
I feel all fuzzy and stuff that we've found common ground.
People tire of their type eventually.
And who's talking about "personal attacks???" I have not changed my statement throughout this thread (except for an appreciated - and acknowledged - hint from Gabz):
Do you have a right to have places to smoke? Yes.
Do you have a right to have restaurants/taverns to smoke? Yes.
Is smoking disgusting and filthy? Yes.
I support your rights completely, because the next thing you know, they'll be comin' after me.....
"Change a few words here and there, and we have the template for the war on Big Fat."
"As we always knew."
Exactly right Madame. They're setting up the new front for their total outright war against the food and hospitality industries.
Hell, these are worse than the smoke threads.
I think the 5th anti-fat panzer division is preparing to launch it's attack........
Of course, there is that annoying mutation generally recognized as girls grown large, who do things like this.
It's as if they were frozen in time, somewhere along the line they just stopped growing mentally and emotionally.
I think you might actually be insane.
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