Posted on 04/17/2005 8:10:16 AM PDT by qam1
An MD-80 is an aircraft (McDonnell-Douglas).
Don't know what that has to do with this subject, though...
Regards,
And the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine want us to quit? Where would they get their damn money if we did! This is sickening.
Maine uses tobacco money to set up anti-obesity network
By COLIN HICKEY
December 6, 2004
Energy expenditure versus energy consumption.
In an ideal world, a balance exists between the two, and nobody ever has to go on the Atkins diet.
But that is not the reality these days -- not by a long shot.
Dora Anne Mills, director of Maine's Bureau of Health, refers to the increase in obesity rates in Maine among adults and children in the last decade as an epidemic.
She has the numbers to support her claim: Obesity rates since 1990 have risen 75 percent, so that today 59 percent of adults are classified as either overweight or obese.
Children have not escaped the epidemic.
Obesity rates have doubled for them in the last 20 years, with the latest data, based on a 2001 survey, revealing that about 25 percent of high school students are overweight.
"In our society it is an uphill swim for most people to maintain a healthy weight," Mills said. "Our basic approach is to change the tide so it is easier to make healthy choices."
To combat obesity, the state has developed Healthy Maine Partnerships, a network of community organizations funded by settlement money from the class action suit against the tobacco industry.
The Waterville area, however, has an additional initiative, spearheaded by MaineGeneral Medical Center physician Sheridan Oldham, to help in the fight.
On one level, the initiative is a capital campaign to match the $1 million contribution the New Balance Foundation recently pledged to rehabilitate and upgrade Camp Tracy, the Waterville Area YMCA summer camp on McGrath Pond in Oakland.
Oldham, however, said the fund-raising effort is part of a larger campaign to reduce obesity among children and encourage them to make healthier choices in regard to activities and food.
"This is a problem that requires education first of all and also opportunities for people to be more physically active," Oldham said. "Basically, we need to eat less and be more active."
Oldham sees an investment in Camp Tracy as an ideal way to provide that greater opportunity for physical activity. The plan is to turn the camp into a year-round facility, so children can cross country ski and skate in winter and hike trails and swing through ropes courses in the spring and fall.
"After 32 years of medical education and training, I know for a fact it is no fun to be sick, and prevention is the best medicine in the world, and it can be fun," she said. "A lot of time people see exercise as a chore and just don't like to do it, but make activities fun, and they'll do them."
Oldham realizes that combating the forces of obesity will not be easy. Fast-food restaurants are everywhere and sedentary pursuits -- cable TV, video games, computers -- are just as available and just as enticing.
To help overcome those challenges, Oldham realized that she had to recruit others to join her in the fight. And she did.
Oldham said area school systems as well as partners such as New Balance, Inside Out Playground, the MaineGeneral Community Health program, Alfond Youth Center, University of Maine and Maine Dartmouth Family Practice have all joined the effort.
Money raised through the capital campaign will be used to build a lodge and residence hall, reconstruct waterfront shower facilities, and develop trail and ropes courses.
At the same time, Oldham said the coalition is pursuing grant money from the National Institute of Health that would be used for programming at Camp Tracy.
Oldham, like Mills, realizes that convincing people to adopt a healthier lifestyle will not happen overnight.
"People will go day after day without doing enough physical activity to even make them sweat," she said, "and that is a problem ... but basically everybody is affected by this problem, and that's why this is a good community project."
Colin Hickey -- 861-9205
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/1198269.shtml
He's just saying he doesn't have to inhale smoke on his little plane ride. Just the stale,yuk,germ filled smoke-free air. LOL
Ok. I will probably be around FR somewhere. :)
Once they get an industry built around obesity and people are making their living at it, they'll have to keep tweaking those numbers so that obesity remains a problem. The entire country could look like stick people and the obesity pimps would scream the sky is falling.
November 11 - Tobacco Smoke Not An Issue - The stake continues to be driven into the heart of the lie that smoking causes or exacerbates asthma. From the National Jewish Medical and Research Center comes a report that the heavier pollution during the winter months does not worsen asthma.
A three year study focusing on minority children in urban areas found that respiratory infections, such as colds, rather than particulate matter, such as found in secondhand smoke, is responsible for triggering asthma attacks. The press release ends with some common sense advice for parents to not worry about air pollution but pay closer attention to "preventing and treating the real wintertime threat to their children's health - colds and other respiratory infections."
For years the tobacco control industry attempted to fool the public into believing that smoking and secondhand smoke causes asthma. That dead end wasted millions of dollars and deflected attention from the real causes of asthma. Legitimate researchers have moved on to more productive pursuits. Asthma and smoking is just one of many cons that has been foisted upon the public. So intent in linking all ill health with tobacco real research has suffered with neglect.
Anti-tobacco owes us all a huge apology.
Have you noticed that there are more lobby's out there trying to force a certain way of life on the rest of us?
SUV's, Guns, Rifles, Cigarettes, Food Stuff. You name it. If one group doesn't like it, they are going to make damn sure the rest of us can't use it!
I truly wish they would get a life.
Are you sure you will live longer; or will it just seem longer?
Thanks for the info..........you're right, I have no idea either what it has to do with the subject at hand.
Ragweed bothers you? You can get shots for that. Otherwise you can complain to Mother Nature.
UMMMMMMMMMMMMM - Guess what?????????? Smokers are less than 25% of the adult population and you know what else - most of them probably aren't obese.
My bad - I'm doing exactly what I'm saying none of us should do - fall for the divide and conquer tactics...........but see how easy it is to fall into the trap?
We must be ever vigilant to this and ignore the sniping of the non-smokers who think they are superior. They show they are not by the sniping and thus may actually learn something when we do not take their bait. They have fallen for the propaganda, and if we take the high road they will have to listen to us.
Do not fall for the sniping tactic, ignore the superior attitudes, just remind them of this article and the fact they have proven the tactics work, just by their sanctimony and snideness agaist smokers.
The truth hurts, but the truth is they fell for the lies of the anti-smokers and don't seem to grasp the same thing is going to be done to everyone else in one shape or form.
I'm 45 years old, 5'10", weigh 115 pounds, and get a very regular amount of exercise - I could very easily laugh this off and say it doesn't affect me because I'm not fat - just like the non-smokers ignored what smokers have been telling them for years. Well I won't do that - because I saw the handwriting on the wall years ago and have been fighting it ever since.
'If the resident anti-smokers at FRee Republic don't want to work with me because I smoke, that is their problem, not mine. And I say the same to the smokers who refuse to look at the big picture.
To each his/her own.............but it does nothing to stem the tide of the nanny-state.
As the days go by I am becoming more and more adamant with this position - we must work together to STOP the nanny-staters.
The anti-smokers can go pack sand for all I care, but the vast majority are not really interested in that aspect of this, but may start waking up and seeing exactly what is going on.
I would have said wake up and smell the coffee - but that is next on the list...........
EXACTLY..........which is why we must work together and stop fighting with each other when it comes to these nanny-statists and their proposals.
This is not fat folks against skinny folks or smokers against non-smokers...........it is right minded freedom loving people against collectivists or socialists or what ever you want to call Big Brother lovers.
We must stop fighting amongst ourselves.
Or, I could go about my life without whining and blaming everybody who does something I dislike. I like to call it "Minding my own damn business."
Dora is a political fsscist from a family of Rinos and Leftist Radical Dims like Janet Mills and Peter and Paul Mills.
Interesting that the money is used for anti obesity....Dear Dora wants to expand her perview. I thought that ciggie money would be used to give away patches and nicotine gum to all who wanted it....but no! Dear Dora is setting up another little kingdom.
Dora is a political fsscist from a family of Rinos and Leftist Radical Dims like Janet Mills and Peter and Paul Mills.
Interesting that the money is used for anti obesity....Dear Dora wants to expand her perview. I thought that ciggie money would be used to give away patches and nicotine gum to all who wanted it....but no! Dear Dora is setting up another little kingdom.
Maybe you see me as a complainer but I am happy as a clam. I see the smokers as being the complainers, when they are being told more and more places that they cannot smoke.
While I agree totally agree that all the science shows that smoking and exposure to that of others do not CAUSE asthma - there is absolutely no doubt that exposure to SHS/ETS (whatever you want to call it) can and will trigger an asthma attack in some people with asthma.
Again we see here the divide and conquer mentality at work with disinformation. There is no science available to back up the claim that smoking or ETS expsoure CAUSES asthma - so they have fudged their lines..............making it seem like it does when it doesn't.
And because of that "fudging" we have many people believing smoking or exposure is the cause - when in fact neither is the cause and exposure is only the trigger in some people.
In your dreams, nOOb! It's all genetics and I bet that I'll out live you. Oh, and I'm probably older,right now, than you'll live to be. ;-)
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