tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post7405782596656869157..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: The new obesity pandemic, the same as the old obesity pandemicChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-60751515726926083142011-08-26T12:24:15.453+01:002011-08-26T12:24:15.453+01:00Just seen that September's NCD summit gets ano...Just seen that September's NCD summit gets another mention in the Graun piece. It's going to be a righteous feeding frenzy!Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-17814971585566396772011-08-26T11:33:35.080+01:002011-08-26T11:33:35.080+01:00Anon at 5.23 above make a good point.
We observe...Anon at 5.23 above make a good point. <br /><br />We observed exactly that happening in <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8141335.stm" rel="nofollow">India</a>.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-64931713986788576302011-08-26T10:51:58.299+01:002011-08-26T10:51:58.299+01:00Soon everyone will be too fat to get away from the...Soon everyone will be too fat to get away from the cigarette smoke. Oh, the humanity...Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-40811535631941640862011-08-26T10:17:23.006+01:002011-08-26T10:17:23.006+01:00Gosh I hope I'm obese by 2030. It will mean I&...Gosh I hope I'm obese by 2030. It will mean I'm still alive . . . .George Spellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06566990991084867385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-486228029669154292011-08-26T09:42:40.725+01:002011-08-26T09:42:40.725+01:00The talk this morning was of a fat tax. They will ...The talk this morning was of a fat tax. They will keep on with these predictive studies until they get their fat tax.<br /><br />Health minister said "smoking is different from obesity, we want to stop people smoking but people need to eat and we want to make them eat sensibly."<br /><br />No room for conjecture there then, is there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-17959118600838594152011-08-26T09:39:22.794+01:002011-08-26T09:39:22.794+01:00Did I really just hear Nicky Campbell on 5 live sa...Did I really just hear Nicky Campbell on 5 live say that giving a kid a McDonald's shake is poisoning them? Yep, the debate really <i>has</i> become that absurd.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-21268282482869983772011-08-26T08:45:49.250+01:002011-08-26T08:45:49.250+01:00These scientific frauds should at least specify wh...These scientific frauds should at least specify what they mean by obese.<br /><br />I think that Peter Walker is an ugly fucking idiot. Do I set the bar high or low? I'm not telling.<br /><br />"Governments around the world need to make immediate and dramatic policy changes to reverse a pandemic of obesity which could affect an extra 11 million people in the UK over the next 20 years, public health scientists have warned."<br /><br />Read that again:<br />Governments around the world<br />and again:<br />Governments around the world<br /><br />Ivory Coast, Sudan (both), Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Vietnam, Japan, Mexico, Belize...<br /><br />These bungling twerps boil my piss - shamelessly lifting money which could be used to help sick people, and just writing a pile of wank that's no more than a toddler smearing the wall with its diarrhoea.<br /><br />Thes people should be stripped of their qualifications and forced to work in Aldi.Twenty_Rothmansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-61314568661536208682011-08-26T05:23:12.416+01:002011-08-26T05:23:12.416+01:00They will make it come true, they will simply redu...They will make it come true, they will simply reduce the BMI ranges AGAIN:<br />It is so easy. If you want millions on antidiabetic, antihypertensive or cholesterol lowering drugs just reduce the normal ranges. Voila, overnight millions become ill and in desperate need of medication. <br />After a while you don't even have to do it officially, normal range deflation takes over all by itself, after all if low is good, lower must be better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-82267903826431760242011-08-26T02:40:12.393+01:002011-08-26T02:40:12.393+01:00"Passive over-eating"?
Does this mean i..."Passive over-eating"?<br /><br />Does this mean if I sit near someone eating a cream cake, I get fat?<br /><br />No doubt there's overwhelming evidence to support such a notion.Trooper Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01505221473081871071noreply@blogger.com