Comments on: America: We’re #1 All Right http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mark http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5078 Mark Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:08:15 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5078 By the way, what Nestle (formula) is doing abroad is atrocious. Actually discouraging mothers from nursing which is creating a huge epidemic of ill/dying babies because the formula is being mixed with unsafe water. By the way, what Nestle (formula) is doing abroad is atrocious. Actually discouraging mothers from nursing which is creating a huge epidemic of ill/dying babies because the formula is being mixed with unsafe water.

]]> By: Mark http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5043 Mark Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:01:28 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5043 Hey gang, I'm back. Sonagi, I'll get on it. I notice for a couple of you this happens. Eventually Akismet will figure it out.... Hey gang, I’m back. Sonagi, I’ll get on it. I notice for a couple of you this happens. Eventually Akismet will figure it out….

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5038 Sonagi Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:58:41 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5038 If you get a chance, could you please rescue a couple of my comments from the spam trap? They got caught because of links. If you get a chance, could you please rescue a couple of my comments from the spam trap? They got caught because of links.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5031 Sonagi Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:58:17 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5031 <i>"Our advertising and public/federal health education are inconsistent. Just one example: on the one hand, the government talks about the need to reduce obesity and preventable disease; on the other, it spends more money subsidizing huge food corporations (in the form of subsidies, marketing, and tax breaks) than it does on school lunches or education."</i> Yes, indeed, and school meals are an insidious partnership between government and the food industry. Breakfast foods are all packaged carbo-junk sweetened with either HFCS or artificial sweeteners to keep within federal limits on sugar content. Cereal manufacturers use the school breakfast program to turn poor children into brand-loyal consumers. Likewise, infant formula manufacturers use the WIC program to increase market share, for WIC coupons are good only for the brand listed, and the number of cans on the coupon are insufficient to feed the infant. The logic is that the parent will buy additional quantities of the same formula brand specified on the WIC coupon. One of my favorite champions against the powerful food and agriculture industries and their government friends is Marion Nestle. Confused by all the claims and counterclaims about what's safe and what's not, I bought her book <i>What to Eat</i>. “Our advertising and public/federal health education are inconsistent. Just one example: on the one hand, the government talks about the need to reduce obesity and preventable disease; on the other, it spends more money subsidizing huge food corporations (in the form of subsidies, marketing, and tax breaks) than it does on school lunches or education.”

Yes, indeed, and school meals are an insidious partnership between government and the food industry. Breakfast foods are all packaged carbo-junk sweetened with either HFCS or artificial sweeteners to keep within federal limits on sugar content. Cereal manufacturers use the school breakfast program to turn poor children into brand-loyal consumers.

Likewise, infant formula manufacturers use the WIC program to increase market share, for WIC coupons are good only for the brand listed, and the number of cans on the coupon are insufficient to feed the infant. The logic is that the parent will buy additional quantities of the same formula brand specified on the WIC coupon.

One of my favorite champions against the powerful food and agriculture industries and their government friends is Marion Nestle. Confused by all the claims and counterclaims about what’s safe and what’s not, I bought her book What to Eat.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5030 Sonagi Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:39:57 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5030 We're #1 among OECD countries but not globally. The world's fattest nation honor goes to Saudi Arabia. We take the bronze behind Panama. http://www.iotf.org/database/GlobalPrevalenceofAdultObesityFeb07.mht I read in the news this week that if current obesity trends continue, 75% of all US adults will be overweight or obese by the year 2015. If you look at the statistics in the above link, you will see that obesity really is a global problem found on every continent. There are now more overweight than underfed people on the planet. We’re #1 among OECD countries but not globally. The world’s fattest nation honor goes to Saudi Arabia. We take the bronze behind Panama.

http://www.iotf.org/database/GlobalPrevalenceofAdultObesityFeb07.mht

I read in the news this week that if current obesity trends continue, 75% of all US adults will be overweight or obese by the year 2015. If you look at the statistics in the above link, you will see that obesity really is a global problem found on every continent. There are now more overweight than underfed people on the planet.

]]> By: Crystal http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5015 Crystal Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:54:18 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/obesity-stats/#comment-5015 Sara-Yes and school lunch is horrendous. They should just put everything in a trough and let the kids line up. Hypocrits. Sara-Yes and school lunch is horrendous. They should just put everything in a trough and let the kids line up. Hypocrits.

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