Glenn Beck wanted to know what the fascination about food is all about....well here it is in all its controlling freakish glory. Somebody get this to Glenn, because control of the food...control of your food...is around the corner.
scroo the “influential Institute of Medicine”
This is a prime example of why people HAVE to get government out of these personal (albeit stupid) choices.
Government is responsible for both the smoking issue and the obestiy issue.
There is proof now that the obesity rate has risen in direct inverse proportion to the number of smokers who have quit.
Smoking curbs appetite, and also ups metabolism. Quit smoking, you start eating.
Government getting in people’s lives to get them quitting smoking just made them get fatter.
Now government wants to meddle into the problem they created - obesity increases - and start dictating changes again.
It is time to tell the govt to STFU and GTFO of micromanaging aspects of our lives they have NO RIGHT to be mucking in. Back to the fed govt of 1800. Seriously. Weak federal government. Strong state government.
Price-support programs for wheat, cotton and other commodity crops prohibit participating farmers from planting fruits and vegetables on land enrolled in those programs. Partly as a result, U.S. farms do not produce enough fresh produce for all Americans to eat the recommended amounts, and the IOM panel calls for removing that ban.
I am not a fan of farm subsidies, but this is deliberate mischaracterization. These do not prohibit farmers from growing anything, they merely make it more profitable to grow certain things. There is no "ban" to be removed.
The average person cannot maintain a healthy weight in this obesity-promoting environment.
That would be news to the 66% - I'm using the article's numbers - who manage it quite nicely at the present time. However, through the illimitable power of linear extrapolation that figure may dwindle to a mere 58% of the population by 2030, who may find some sort of niggling objection to a program that places the government in charge of a personal problem that does not exist. One is accustomed to those in need of a self-discipline to appeal for help to a higher Power but not to those in no need having the appeal made for them to the government, however godlike its constituent pressure groups feel themselves.
The Institute of Medicine is the “objective, scientific, fact-based” group that decided hormonal contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion are “preventive care” for women.
They’re straight from Hell.
We’ve heavily subsidized corn since the 70’s, which wouldn’t make money without government assistance. That corn is used to make corn fructose (a form of sugar), which is nearly in everything...SO YES, this has to be addressed.
To act like there is no problem and that it’s all personal chose is silly. But I’m not for extra taxes....I’m just against government funds pushing bad food.
If you think this whole effort is about 'obesity' (or 'global warming is about 'global warming') think again.
Saying this is 'unbelievable' just does not touch the insanity; the sickness for power over another; these people have. It is 'their life' and they cannot be happy (not that they EVER are) unless they can claim yours.
Liberalism is worse than a killer epidemic; and should be treated as one.
If Repubs started distinguishing themselves from these sicko policies; they could win any election; and in a heartbeat.
Some interesting recommendations in there.
Nanny State PING!
“Personal blame.” Nice.
The intended shift, of course, is from personal responsibility to government control. I wonder if any liberals will experience a dim sense of uneasiness when Big Sister tells them what they can and can’t have for breakfast.
If there is no peer pressure to be normally thinner, being fat becomes acceptable on a broader scale.
Keep in mind that anyone who has been carrying those extra pounds will have very well developed leg muscles, and even if they slim down will still likely BMI out as 'overweight', even if they reduce their body fat to Auschwitz levels.
“America’s obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted..”
the planting was the change in measuring obesity. When the standards were changed, then we created an epidimic that “requires government dictates of behaviours.”
Shifting this from personal responsiblity makes an opening
for government to step in!
ping and bump!