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Obesity. Where's The "Urgent Fight" To End It?—NY Times

Obesity Is Running Rampant In The USA. People Are Talking About The "Urgent Fight" To End It, But Where's The Fight? Read This Post And Then Look In The Mirror.

 

Jane Brody reports the staggering statisticsbut mentions no solution

In a recent Times article (9-12-11, see link below) entitled "The Numbers Behind an Urgent Fight," Ms. Brody chronicles the latest numbers when it comes to the costs of treating obesity and the obesity-related increase in the number of cases of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. She predicts that if the current trend continues, "about three of every four Americans will be overweight or obese by 2020." She continues...

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By 2030 there could be 65 million more obese adults in the United States than in 2010, according to the epidemiologist Dr. Y. Claire Wang and her colleagues at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The health consequences of such a rise in obesity are staggering. It would mean 8 million more cases of diabetes, 6.8 million more cases of atherosclerotic heart disease and stroke and more than 500,000 more cases of cancer.

Certainly the above numbers would warrant an "urgent fight" as the title reads. But, my question is "Where is the fight?" Who's fighting? Over 90% of Americans are still chowing down on meat, dairy and highly processed foods three times a day. And yes, that means over 90% of the doctors, the dietitians, nutrition professors, the pharmaceutical execs, school teachers, etc. -- almost everyone is still eating some version of our toxic, disease-promtoing Western diet. Continue reading this post...

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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com

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