Posted on 08/25/2011 4:13:40 PM PDT by martosko
In a multi-part series published Thursday, the British medical journal The Lancet recommends national governments impose new regulations and taxes to stop an obesity epidemic that is sweeping the planet.
The respected peer-reviewed journal lays out how the world has seen four decades of a rising obesity epidemic. One paper from Columbia and Harvard University researchers concludes that if historic trends continue there will be 65 million more obese adults in the USA and 11 million more in the UK by 2030. The authors also write that obesity is increasing in all countries, but rates vary widely.
In an editorial, The Lancet says the obesity problem lacks a solution because governments reactions so far are wholly inadequate and rely heavily on self-regulation by the food and beverage industry
[T]he obesity epidemic will not be reversed without government leadership.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedc.com ...
Thanks for the tip.
Tax my raisin cookies, and it’s war!
Nanny State PING!
LOLOL! Thanks for the ping!
Peer reviewed = your fellow Researchers/grant junkies skimmed your report and liked the pre determined conclusion.
As long as the taxpayer money keeps flowing who cares? Except those people who like their freedom and value honesty.
Peer reviewed = your fellow Researchers/grant junkies skimmed your report and liked the pre determined conclusion.
As long as the taxpayer money keeps flowing who cares? Except those people who like their freedom and value honesty.
Smokers tried to warn everyone what was headed their way.
If you think billions of dollars were spent on bogus studies and smoking bans because anyone cares that you find smoke annoying and smelly you need to start thinking with something other than your nose.
That said, once one gives Government the authority to ban harmful substances from user discretion, one also grants Government (or government will usurp) the authority to regulate any substance one consumes, including food.
Now there is just one more excuse to kick down the front door, stomp the kitties and shoot the dog.
Dude, I’m on YOUR side! I can’t stand the smoke gnatzies either. They should leave the fatties alone, too!
In all fairness there has been perverts picking up kids.. What happened was John Walsh made a movie about his kid and then all of the sudden kids can be no longer kids..
I’m not a smoker and I said this was going to happen.
It has been a boon to the nanny industry via Toboacco, why not expand it for further cash influxes....
“That said, once one gives Government the authority to ban harmful substances from user discretion, one also grants Government (or government will usurp) the authority to regulate any substance one consumes, including food.”
I agree and will only add that now that the Federal gov’t has a financial interest in each individual’s health, it will get worse. Health insurance was the last straw in total control of our physical beings......
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