Posted on 05/08/2012 11:52:13 AM PDT by EBH
America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures - from overhauling farm policies and zoning laws to, possibly, introducing a soda tax - to fix it, the influential Institute of Medicine said on Tuesday.
In an ambitious 478-page report, the IOM refutes the idea that obesity is largely the result of a lack of willpower on the part of individuals. Instead, it embraces policy proposals that have met with stiff resistance from the food industry and lawmakers, arguing that multiple strategies will be needed to make the U.S. environment less "obesogenic."
The IOM, part of the Washington-based National Academies, offers advice to the government and others on health issues. Its report was released at the Weight of the Nation conference, a three-day meeting hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cable channel HBO will air a documentary of the same name next week.
"People have heard the advice to eat less and move more for years, and during that time a large number of Americans have become obese," IOM committee member Shiriki Kumanyika of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine told Reuters. "That advice will never be out of date. But when you see the increase in obesity you ask, what changed? And the answer is, the environment. The average person cannot maintain a healthy weight in this obesity-promoting environment."
Shortly after the report was released, the Center for Consumer Freedom, which is funded by restaurant, food and other industries, condemned the IOM as joining forces with the nation's "food nannies."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“I CANNOT maintain a healthly weight...
I CANNOT live within my means....
I CANNOT stay faithful to my spouse....
I CANNOT save any money for retirement....
I CANNOT stop viewing pornography on the internet....
I CANNOT teach my children responsibility and discipline...”
We’re all helpless worms in need of cradle to grave care, apparently.
The obese are a problem, and the obese are a voting block. What to do? I’ve got it! We’ll just say it isn’t their fault and that there’s a “smartest-guy-in-the-room” government solution for making Jabba-the-Hut look like Matt Damon! Now the fatties won’t be mad, and we are looking like we are doing something. In fact, we can grab more power and money while we’re at it. Whee!
If calories consumed > calories burned weight gain will occur. If calories consumed < calories burned weight loss will occur. If calories consumed = calories burned neither gain nor loss of weight will occur.
SO why don’t they just ban the sale of fat foods to fat people, just like alcohol/tobacco can’t be sold to minors.
Quick! Everyone stockpile the Twinkies!
Seriously, this is just yet another infuriating power grab! Obesity may kill ya? Well here’s news! You gotta die of something.
Since the .gov is ready to jump on the blame game, how about dishing out a healthy portion of the blame to the USDA (government) food pyramid?
That is a sure recipe for diabetes and obesity...
(have they replaced it with a ‘plate’ or something lately?)
Beck already knows.
Within the next week or two he will have another “bakery show” to prove it.
I love those!
However, the IoM is not some beknighted group working in white lab coats fro your benefit. Read here.
Some quotes:
In falsely reporting this study from the IoM, however, the old media reporters never bothered to even read the adverse reactions report. Nor did they ask a few simple questions such as "Who is funding the Institute of Medicine? And what is the agenda of the IoM?"
Today, NaturalNews publishes a stunning story about the IoM which reveals this government-created non-profit to be a key player in the military medical complex involving a shady network of weapons manufacturers, the Department of Homeland Security, top pharmaceutical companies and population control globalists such as Bill Gates. Here, we expose who's giving the IoM money and why the actual sources of funding behind the IoM destroy any credibility it once claimed to have on the subject of public health.
Even the Washington Legal Foundation (http://www.wlf.org), a group that advocates free choice in health care (and personal freedom in general), charged that the FDA could not legally accept recommendations from the Institute of Medicine because the committee members put forth by the IoM did not meet the lawful requirement of being "fairly balanced."
"Using advice from a committee that lacks fair balance encroaches upon Congress' mandate that each Advisory Committee should be representative of a broad range of viewpoints and should include affected individuals," said WLF Chief Counsel Richard Samp after filing WLF's Citizen Petition. (http://www.policymed.com/2011/07/institute-of-medicine-fda-510k-advis...)
Government subsidizes the corn growers. Boom! High fructose corn syrup in everything because it’s so cheap.
Government FDA puts out guidelines for diet that are High Carb, low fat (the same diet given to cattle before slaughter to fatten them up) Boom! Everyone gets fat.
Government listens to lobbyists from Weight Watchers, Slim Fast and others in the weight loss industry. Boom! Herbs that speed up the metabolism are taken off the market.
Government refuses to enact tort reform so doctors are scared to death to prescribe anything proven to help people lose weight because they might get sued out of existence. Boom! People become grossly obese and are turning to surgery to help.
So the government has to fix the problem they created. Nice.
Now, I may have a little 'reserve' (most of which will be gone by summer's end), but can still lift over 100 lbs and walk away with it. Not bad for a great-grandpa.
Get between an old dog and his dinner dish, and you might get bit.
“We’re all helpless worms in need of cradle to grave care, apparently.”
Absolutely! Since the public schools and universities have been pushing the psychobabble drek ....these are your emotions, they have control, there is nothing you can do about it, you are helpless, everything is going to be ok...
instead of
You, as a human have volition, the capacity to decide. Decisions have consequences, so gather as much information as you can, and make good ones. If you make bad ones it is your responsibility to make things right, no one else’s. You are not the content of your emotions, but the content of your character, and you are responsible for the content of your soul!
It is NOT the government’s job!
Ding, ding, ding!
We have a winner!
scroo the “influential Institute of Medicine”
In a very general way, your thinking is correct, but it’s more complicated than that because calories are not a measure of weight.
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.
They really start it doing here in State of CA they got annoying commerical called for California for change show moms lecture about eating healthier
It is true they saying they are annoying busy bodies
http://www.cachampionsforchange.cdph.ca.gov/en/MyKitchen.php
They really start it doing here in State of CA they got annoying commerical called for California for change show moms lecture about eating healthier
It is true they saying they are annoying busy bodies
http://www.cachampionsforchange.cdph.ca.gov/en/MyKitchen.php
One professor in school said the the US food pyramid was upside down. He said it was modeled on something a Russian doctor made. The low fat craze actually started the fat revolution.
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.
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