Obesity: five facts

[psychoslice]

As I said, its sad, are you over weight ?.

That doesn't really have any bearing on the discussion, does it?

The fact of the matter is this: the american public was advised by the USDA to eat in ways that we now know are quite unhealthy - the advice was to eat approximately twice the bread and grains that are now advisable, and that much carbohydrate demonstrably leads to both obesity and risk of diabetes.

Many people followed this advice in good faith, and became overweight and sick. Recent science tells us it's extremely difficult to take off that weight and successfully keep it off.

Yet, your position is that people are too stupid to eat properly. How the actual fuck are they supposed to know this when the authority tasked with providing that information gave such horrible advice (in hindsight), and now many of those same people have irreversible health conditions?

I expect another reply that reeks of smug superiority.

I only reply the way I am replies to, the thing is there has been a heel of lot of information about obesity and how to avoid it, this has been going on for years, well at least here in Australia. As I said, many only hear what they wan to hear, food can be a drug to these, as anything can be. If we carry on feeling sorry and making up excuses for these people we are only adding to the dangers of their health and the health of generations to come. I will not patronise these people just so to not hurt their feeling, its far better to have your feeling hurt than to die of a obesity related disease.