Posted on 07/24/2012 1:51:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ScienceDaily (July 23, 2012) With widespread hunger continuing to haunt developing nations, and obesity fast becoming a global epidemic, any number of efforts on the parts of governments, scientists, non-profit organizations and the business world have taken aim at these twin nutrition-related crises. But all of these efforts have failed to make a large dent in the problems, and now an unusual international collaboration of researchers is explaining why.
Publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers argue that while hunger and obesity are caused by a perfect storm of multiple factors acting in concert, the efforts to counter them have been narrowly focused and isolated. Overcoming the many barriers to achieving healthy nutrition worldwide, the researchers argue, will instead require an unprecedented level of joint planning and action between academia, government, civil society and industry.
In particular, the authors of the papers in the PNAS special feature propose an ambitious plan to remake the ways food is grown, processed, distributed, sold and consumed. The plan focuses on innovations that simultaneously take into account the needs of farmers, the complexity of nutrition-related human biology and decision-making, and the power of profit incentives in the commercial sector. The result, the researchers say, is "a roadmap for a transdisciplinary science to support change of sufficient scale and scope" to carve out "an alternative path from tradition to industrialization" -- one that "promotes healthy lifestyles and environments rather than undermining them."
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The solution to gun violence? Big government and central planning.
The solution to high medical care prices? Big government and central planning.
The solution to gun violence? Big government and central planning.
Overcoming the many barriers to achieving healthy nutrition worldwide, the researchers argue, will instead require an unprecedented level of joint planning and action between academia, government, civil society and industry.
The solution to both hunger and obesity? Once again, no surprise. I read book 3 of the Hunger Games, but unlike big government liberals, I did not see District 13 as a desirable utopia.
Because they aren’t supposed to.
“joint planning and action between academia, government, civil society and industry.
In particular, the authors of the papers in the PNAS special feature propose an ambitious plan to remake the ways food is grown, processed, distributed, sold and consumed.”
Yeah, a food system based on soviet principles WOULD take care of the ‘obesity’ problem!
When you are standing in the express line with a pound of hamburger and the 300 pound plus person ahead of you... has huge T-Bone steaks, doughnuts and cheesecake they pay for with Food Stamps, you really do wonder?
The War on Climate Change is kaput. The War on Obesity is now underway.
Thanks for the ping!
It’s analogous to the Shakespearean approach to perfect justice — “kill all the lawyers”. If we’d have a zero tolerance policy toward the various public scolds and other jackoffs who manage to make good money criticizing the food producers, who at least work for a living, we’d have better nutrition, better overall health, and improvements in longevity.
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
No food, no problem! Easy-peasy!
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