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The BBC reports:
Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said.
Great idea! First we’ll get Al Gore to make a documentary about the problem of global fatness ... well, maybe not Gore. Maybe the DiCaprio boy instead; he’s still got a few years left before he bloats into something big enough to play the title role in Titanic II.
Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so great that action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options.
He really is treating this the same way as climate change.
Professor James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, was speaking in Boston at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
You tell ‘em, AAAS man.
He commented: “This is a community epidemic that is actually a response to all the wonderful apparent industrial and economic development changes that we’ve seen ...”
Another point of commonality with climate change - it’s all the fault of “apparent” advances. A blanket law opposing advancement is required.
(Via Rob Read)
Does Professor James wear an AAAS hat?
By Jove, though, this does sound serious. Perhaps Professor James, whose expertise seems to be tropical medicine, should consider some scheme for introducing various tropical diseases into the obese portion of the population: say, ascariasis or strongyloidiasis. That should generate some weight loss. Of course, the non-scientific mind would probably suggest something simplistic, like eating sensibly and adopting an exercise routine; but we know better, don’t we professor?
I am now selling fat offset credits. Paypal is accepted.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2008 02 19 at 11:03 AM • permalinkYes, all those “apparent” benefits we’ve gotten from medicine and technology…
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 19 at 11:04 AM • permalinkIf only we could make it warmer so that people would sweat off that extra weight . . .
Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2008 02 19 at 11:08 AM • permalinkI think I’ll start telling people we need to tackle perceived problems in the same way as global warmingcooling. Regardless of whether the problem exists or not.
“I want hundreds of committees formed to remedy the unfortunate results of national championship games played by the Ohio State Buckeyes”.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 19 at 11:55 AM • permalinkI, too, have started my own fat offset program. Send me twenty bucks and I’ll drink that second beer for you. Forty and I’ll order another hamburger.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2008 02 19 at 12:10 PM • permalinkGood lord, I need help with a fat offset program. I’d lost 100 pounds, now I’ve put 30 of that back on. I blame stress—down to two developers on a project that kept five in overtime and the return of my ex-fiance.
In reality, I just need to refocus on eating well and resist the temptation to eat crap.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 02 19 at 01:01 PM • permalinkFinally, the anorexics of the world have a purpose: fat offsets!
Order me another burger while you’re at it, rick mcginnis. Keira Knightley’s covering for me.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2008 02 19 at 02:37 PM • permalinkHow about just leaving people the fuck alone, and letting them get on with their lives.
Even if they are too fat to get off the couch. That’s their choice.
Freedom of choice.
That’s what I wantPosted by mr creosote on 2008 02 19 at 03:34 PM • permalinkHow about just leaving people the fuck alone, and letting them get on with their lives.
Not allowed. They may make choices Mrs. Grundy doesn’t like.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 02 19 at 03:42 PM • permalinkI’m NOT fat!
I just have big stomache bones.Posted by jaycee1953 on 2008 02 19 at 05:28 PM • permalinkAny obesity campaign is doomed to failure due to the Law of Conservation of Fat. The Law states that the amount of fat in the universe is a constant. Simply put, any time you lose weight by decreasing your amount of stored fat, somebody somewhere puts on an equal amount of weight by increasing their stored fat. Resistance is useless!
#7
If they shed pounds, where do think the pounds go?
It’s a universal truth that weight is never really lost, it just redistributes itself around the universe.
A bit like carbon.
#8
Feed the fat kids to the starving kids. Problem solved and a win/win.#12
In the famine the skinny ones will be the first to die.That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
#21 Dang, Ubique. See my reference to #7 above.
it’s truly true!!
I recommend this cure for fat kids. Leave ‘em in a well for seven weeks.
Worked for Milly. She lost half her body weight with zero carbon credits needed.Australia is well positioned to show the world the way on the war on obesity.Our very own Chairman Rudd is in the unique position of being in close and intimate domestic contact with two little porkers.He must be encouraged to immediately institute a home based experimental dieting regime and if successful he can again strut the world stage,this time as a leader not just as Kyoto Kevvie-Come-Lately.As an additional benefit the money saved on overfeeding these two should more than pay for his new child minder.
We should feed the fat people to the starving people.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 19 at 09:41 PM • permalinkIt appears to be the best way to lose weight is to be very, very poor (see Africa).
I guess all Krudd economic policies are therefore tightly geared to the obesity issue. If he can’t make us exercise more, he will make us too broke to eat.
On another note, bloody leftie governments start by regulating what is allowed to come out of your mouth (as in restricting free speech), then they regulate what you can put into it.
I guess that’s why talking out of your arse is the only safe option these days (as demonstrated by most of the ABC).
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 19 at 09:47 PM • permalinkWhy not be environmentally friendly and issue everyone with one of these?
(makes my skin crawl)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 19 at 09:55 PM • permalink“Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said.”
What, by lying about it?
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 02 19 at 11:59 PM • permalinkDistribute free Vegemite, professor. That’ll do it.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2008 02 20 at 12:12 AM • permalinkI guess in order to fight Global Lardening, we’re going to start hearing about how we all have to reduce the size of our environmental fatprints now.
Posted by Christopher Johnson on 2008 02 20 at 01:03 AM • permalinkObesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said.
You mean cripple the most productive economies on the planet and then place the others under centralized transnational control?
Okay, I’m game. Can’t hurt to try.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2008 02 20 at 02:49 PM • permalinkMaybe the DiCaprio boy instead; he’s still got a few years left before he bloats into something big enough to play the title role in Titanic II.
There goes my keyboard.
Thanks, Tim. Invoice is in the mail. :)
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 20 at 04:47 PM • permalinkhas anyone mentioned yet that this obesity “epidemic” is a load of b.s.? Michael Duffy wrote a good column on it a month or two ago.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 02 21 at 09:15 PM • permalinkarticle on obesity epidemichere
some other thoughts on this:
over the past few centuries we’ve moved from more labor-intensive jobs to less labor-intensive jobs. You’d expect people to be on the whole, a little less muscular and have more flab. Anything else would be astounding.
But maybe that’s the price for not having to hand-wash your own clothes and milk cows at 5 am every day.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 02 21 at 09:21 PM • permalink
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I’m really scared. If I don’t get murdered by global warming, the ‘fat’ epidemic is going to get me. The only really good news is that islamofascism isn’t real. The NYT told me so.