From: Alan Cairns 

I agree with Gene. I would just have omitted the phrase "with the
exception of those with glandular problems". Anybody at all who gets
fat got it from eating too much. Where else can fat come from? Air?

The real world health problems are calorie malnutrition and infectious diseases.

Alan

On 1/16/04 12:05 PM, in article b0hg00t9d7f7ekad0brgoqtolog9rtfme9{at}4ax.com,
"Gene McAloon"  wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:42:54 +0100, Phil Payne 
> wrote:
>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21073-2004Jan15.html
>>
>> "The Bush administration announced yesterday it will demand significant
>> changes to a major World Health Organization initiative to battle obesity
>> globally, saying the plan is based on faulty scientific evidence and
>> exceeds the U.N. body's mandate.
>>
>> The move prompted intense criticism from U.S. and international health and
>> nutrition experts, who charged that the U.S. objections are a thinly veiled
>> attempt to placate the food and sugar industries and derail a vital
>> international assault on one of the world's biggest health problems.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> WHO estimates that perhaps 1 billion adults are overweight and at least 300
>> million are obese. In the United States, more than two-thirds of adults are
>> overweight, and nearly one in three is obese. Researchers have blamed the
>> skyrocketing rates largely on a combination of people getting less exercise
>> and consuming more inexpensive, high-calorie junk foods."
>
> One of the world's biggest health problems my ass. One minute the WHO is
> telling
> us malnutrition and even starvation is the biggest health problem and now we
> are
> to believe that people eating too much and becoming fat is the real problem.
> The
> real problem is the WHO and its propensity to follow every health fad that
> comes
> down the pike.
>
> Only in this case it is not even eating too much that is seen as the problem,
> but eating so-called fast food. Not snacking on fast food almost constantly
as
> many do, but simply eating the stuff. They would have you believe that having
> a
> cheeseburger for lunch several times a week is bad for you. Idiots.
>
> The Bush people are right on this one; the science isn't even there. There
are
> only statistical correlations and the assumptions derived from them. That
> doesn't begin to be good enough. The assumptions held to so vociferously
about
> the "food pyramid," preached by nutritionists and the
medical profession, are
> now being seriously questioned by many in those same professions. So much for
> the science.
>
> With the exception of those with glandular or whatever problems, if they are
> fat
> it is because they eat too much. Unfortunately the usual diets don't keep the
> weight off, so they are now trying to get people to change, not how much they
> eat, but what they eat. That will be just as ineffective as the diet approach
> was.
>
> There is no science here, just faddish approaches to a perceived problem
along
> with the usual gross exaggerations about the alleged dangers involved. Not
> junk
> food, but junk science is the real problem.
>
>
>
>
>

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