[AnotherUnixGeek]

But hell, if you can blame genetics or something else, it makes life so much easier.

There's a growing obesity epidemic, not just in the US but in the world as a whole, including nations in the Third World. Finding something to blame is irrelevant, as are anecdotes about how someone managed to knock off some pounds. Mankind did not evolve in an environment where we could consume the amount of food available to most of the world now, and it's clear that our bodies are not capable of handling it. It's also clear that all the moralizing and finger-pointing in the world will not fix it. What might fix it is early childhood education and conditioning about good eating habits and exercise, along with bans on the use of food ingredients found to be harmful, such as trans-fat and corn syrup.

[flashbunny]

“What might fix it is early childhood education and conditioning about good eating habits and exercise, along with bans on the use of food ingredients found to be harmful, such as trans-fat and corn syrup.”

Hillary and bloomberg couldn’t have said it better themselves.

[muawiyah]

Just ban carbohydrates. No one needs them. Your own liver will produce all the sugar necessary for normal life.

Time to put down the wheat smugglers too.

[mvpel]

What might fix it is early childhood education and conditioning about good eating habits and exercise, along with bans on the use of food ingredients found to be harmful, such as trans-fat and corn syrup.

Advocacy of more and bigger government on Free Republic? Who'd have thunk it!

[Rembrandt]

“Mankind did not evolve in an environment where we could consume the amount of food available to most of the world now..”
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My parents both grew up on farms during the Depression. When my brothers and I were born and raised, the portions my Mother prepared and served were not large, probably because the money couldn’t stretch real far. Our stomachs didn’t either.

In the ‘60’s, I believe a lot of the anti-establishment types decided that MY kids are not going to be deprived. We’re going to have two meat courses and potatoes and bread at every meal. Eat all this, then we’ll have three different desserts.

You kids should remember to raise your kids this way. Don’t go out to play, remember, we have a big new color TV - go lay on the couch after we eat.