Christine Ferguson, director of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance (STOP), said that obesity needs to be a part of any health care legislation that Congress passes.
Posted on 09/18/2009 3:24:03 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Health care experts, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, said on Wednesday said that obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is a threat to security in the United States and abroad.
“Obesity is not just a health issue,” said Richard Carmona, who served as surgeon general in the George W. Bush administration. Carmona is now with the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance (STOP), a coalition of consumer, government, labor, business, and health insurers that advocate “innovative and practical strategies” to combat obesity.
Obesity “affects our national and global security,” said Carmona. He said the U.S. has reached a “tipping point,” at which obesity “now impacts every aspect of our society, including the future of our health system.”
Obesity is crippling individuals and hurting American families, the workforce – even work productivity and the nation’s ability to be prepared for natural and manmade disasters: “When we look at one of the top reasons why young men and women fail to be retained on active duty in our uniformed services, obesity again rises to the forefront at a time when we need them more than ever.”
Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, a disease-prevention advocacy group, echoed Carmona’s concern about obesity, the military and national security.
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Christine Ferguson, director of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance (STOP), said that obesity needs to be a part of any health care legislation that Congress passes.
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Fat chance.
Hey Christie the COW....don’t look now but Iran has a nuclear bomb and Al Qaeda was just found plotting attacks in America.
Geez...these people are going to get us all killed!
Uh oh. Clear evidence the terrorists have won.
Hey Christine you first. Once you attain your correct weight, then I will follow. Or is it "Do as I say, not as I do." Come to think of it, that is pretty much the Washington attitude.
“Fat chance.”
Have you no shame, sir?
Mark
She just retaining water or has a thyroid thang .........
Somebody give her a box of Ding Dongs and maybe she’ll go away. Any good ‘RAT worth their weight in stimulus dollars knows that closing our borders is the “biggest threat to National Security.” Just ask one of them.
Does this mean that DHS will include fatties in their profile of domestic terrorists now? Will they be rounded up and sent to Fat Camp?
That’s a lovely portrait of her FAT head.
Christine needs to STOP eating carbohydrates.
False, false, I tell you false! Big Butts Build Better Barricades.
Don’t these people have a job?
Food for thee, BUTT not for me? lol
How long befor Napolitano tells us that people who serve double cheeseburgers, french fries and sugar drinks are domestic terrorists?
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