A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

hsu973 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:42:28 GMT

Unfortunately, it's all too true. The majority of workers do not cook anymore, and the company where I work, the younger people just starting in the field of financial asset management don't have time to cook as they practically live in the office the first 2-1/2 years. They have given over their trust for healthy foods to someone else (restaurants, fast foods, government). It seems the poorer population cook home meals to save money. The others eat out.

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

jkroot — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:54:49 GMT

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

All who are within earshot, Hear Ye!

Who the heck is Ye?

Lend me thine ears (and please don't gross me out).

Thou who art phat are cool.

Thou who art fat are still cool, but heavy.

Give us this day our daily bread (without the HFCS).

HIGH fructose corn syrup is the beast of thy heavy burden.

Rid the temple (body) of the beast and ye shall be as a feather.

A somewhat heavy feather, but you are on your way.

etude:

What you put in your body, you become.

Junk begets junk.

Processed food begets a very sickly processed body!

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

fredh — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:40:18 GMT

Most mothers do not cook any more, eating out is easer. Fredh

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

curious7 — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:18:21 GMT

We are overweight because we are uninformed. Many of us do not know what it takes to be healthy. Too many of us prefer "Factory Food," and shun farm fresh foods. The latter is quickly becoming just a memory, as we pave over, and develope more of our farmland. Too many of us refuse to read, and too many of us put our faith in Doctors, who have no more than a "Poisin, and Cut," education. Sadly many Doctors have not been taught anything about disease prevention. Why teach prevention, "Big Pharma" has a magic bullet for what ever ailes you. If not we can always cut away a part of your anatomy, whether you need it or not.

Are we not better off with a bunch of strange chemicals running through our bodies? Besides we can have just as rich a life with one lung. Right? Heart attacks, cancer, hypertension, and diabetes are good for the economy. These disorders keep many doctors busy, and we need these miracle workers. Besides a little puge around the waist is good for us. Cottage cheese thighs are glamourous. You think?

Oh did I mention we can grow more with less. We just change the genes in the plant, and we now have higher yields. Good for you. Are we not a great country? We have the FDA looking out for our well being, and "Big Pharma" is doing a bang up job embalming us before we croak. All this and it only costs a few trillion, we can afford that.

As humans we need sunshine, exercise, fresh air, clean water, rest, a good spiritual posture, and farm fresh whole foods should be the majority of our meals. Some agree, and many disagree. we do not need to consume flesh foods to be healthy. A simple lifestyle can lead to a full healthy life, and a cleaner enviroment.

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

imtheredrum — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:42:29 GMT

What a prestigious looking study. With all of the intelligence that went into this study why was the most significant bullet left of the 6 listed reasons for the blowing up of America? Who paid for this study, the food industry? Why aren't the 15,000 chemicals that the food industry uses to process our food listed at the top of the list?? Why does our Govt. allow the food manufactures not to list them? Get rid of the lobbyists, get rid of the chemicals, get rid of the FDA, and America will slim down again like Europe!

re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

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re: A Fat, $100 Billion, Crisis

Patty D — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:32:57 GMT

This may give ya'll a laugh. I've said before I was extremely obese, very sick, starving myself yet gaining weight. Well, I've lost nearly 50lbs, etc etc...but a recent comment from my doc when I mentioned eating meat, coconut oil, whole milk (yes raw) etc..."You're killing yourself". Yet, the evidence was sitting in the chair beside her, no cane, weight loss, almost no meds...but I'm killing myself? Give me a break!!!

re: A Crisis of Great Magnitude

Islander — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:36:54 GMT

Today, September 6, a man of great girth and greater voice died of pancreatic cancer.

RIP, Luciano Pavarotti.

re: A Crisis of Great Magnitude

mmc88121 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:24:27 GMT

Many cultures associated being rounder with being more affluent. In the days of Shakespeare that was true. But what was also true then as now was that just because you had money did not mean you were healthier. You can also be to thin, everybody needs some body fat to keep their bodies running efficiently.

Mary

re: A Crisis of Great Magnitude

Russ Bianchi — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:48:09 GMT

Dr. M's Soliloquy:

"To be healthy or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind & body to suffer
The slings & arrows of outrageous Pharma & FDA,
  Or to take light & truth to their sea of troubles,
  And by opposing, end them. To LIVE, to sleep;
The heart-ache from HFCS & many unnatural shocks
Flesh is vulnerable to - tis a FRAUD!
Devoutly to be ceased. To LIVE, to sleep, to be tranquil;
To sleep, perchance to make dreams come true. Ay, there's the rub,
  For in power naps a-many, allow dreams to come true,
We shall not shuffle of this mortal coil quickly,
  Pause indeed gives us health. There's the respect
That makes calamity by reading Vital Votes into long life,
For by bearing the whips & scorns of negative dingers
Big Sodas wrong, the proud fast food's conjecture,
  Tobacco's pangs of despise in being outed, the law's delay,
The insolence of the USDA, & their ilk
  Overt evil of K Street Lobby takes,
When we might our quietus make
With bare postings? who will fardels bear,
To use it or lose it in this joyous life,
But that dread of something prior to early death,
The known country of profit & harm at consumer expense,
A discovered country from who born,
All travelers may return, no longer puzzles the will,
  & make us bear no ills imposed
  & fly to health we now know of!
Thus conscience does NOT make cowards of us all,
  & thus the native hue of resolution
Is healthier o'er with vitamin D sun ray cast,
& enterprises of GREAT pitch
Are Won By Action!