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Ellison Barber: Government Regs Not Solution to Obesity Epidemic
http://freebeacon.com/ellison-barber-government-regs-not-solution-to-obesity-epidemic/
What do you suppose the Secretary of Obesity, Michelle Obama, Obama’s new “Fat Czar”, is going to do? Order troops at the entrance of every McDonald’s?
They’re going to find a way to start taxing our food one way or another.
People the world over are emulating Michelle.
Government intervention is what caused the obesity situation.
Why tax food?
Want food to cost more? Stop subsidizing it.
Want people to be thinner? Stop giving them food stamps.
The fattest people as a class are the poor. Maybe we should stop paying the poor to eat and sit around doing nothing.
Fat is way down the priority list of british flaws. Stupid or suicidal might be up there.
"Nazibastards" has a nice ring.
Since Big Government must control everything to bring about Utopian perfection, it looks under every rock to find something that it can fix. Obesity has been with mankind since the Garden of Eden. So has sex. Big Government will waste taxpayers’ money in the money pit of obesity.
Wrong.
The issue is how much food ends up in your tummy.
There are numerous studies that show that people who maintain a BMI between 20-25, regardless of diet, are just as healthy and live just as long as people who have the same BMI but eat a “perfect” diet.
Also important, all the people in the 20-25 BMI group have a lower rate of smoking, a higher rate of exercise, and are more likely to drink in moderation compared to groups with higher BMI’s.
“For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Obama for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
They are all orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.
Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane"on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.
Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.
Though they crave government control over the food they eat, the truth is that researchers are narrowing down on the reasons for much obesity to the intestinal flora.
Basically three classes of microorganisms that are most influential.
The first class are bacteria that produce waste products that *cause* weight gain. It has been proven that if you consume just this waste, not the bacteria themselves, you will add on fat.
“At least 26 species of bacteria in the human gut microbiota, and the entire genus of *Enterobacter*, appear to be linked to obesity and related metabolic complications, with obese people having flora that instead of having 30-40 of dominant strains, only have a limited number that take up most of the space. As much as a third of the gut flora of morbidly obese people is Enterobacter.”
The second class of bacteria are those that actually *fight* obesity. Akkermansia muciniphila, and even the genus Bacteroides. The exact mechanism by which they do this is not yet established, but it is likely that they either inhibit digestion of food, over-digest it themselves which makes it less nutritious, or create or destroy enzymes related to digestion.
The third class look like bacteria, but are not. They are Archaea, as different from bacteria as we are. Archaea will consume things that bacteria will not, and even consume the waste gases of bacteria. Normally, these waste gases, typically carbon dioxide, inhibit the growth of digestive bacteria. But if the Archaea eat CO2, the bacteria can more fully digest our food, and make more nutrition available to us. And thus we gain weight.
The Archaea Methanobrevibacter smithii is about the only Archaea that lives in us and does this.
Wonder when the ugly tax kicks in?.
We’re From The Gov’ment and We’re Here To Take Your Fat Kids!!