The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO

Post #357,482 by Ashton 5/14/12 5:22:55 PM 5/14/12 5:30:09 PM Reply	The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO (Won't see it, of course; I'm strictly 'via-air' for my video advertainments--when the weather/sky-trajectory is right.) Fresh Air Why We're Getting Fat One third of Americans are obese, and another third are overweight. Kelly Brownell joins the show to explain why changes in eating habits, the food we eat, and our sedentary lifestyles pose a serious threat to adults and children. He's one of the experts featured in a new HBO series about obesity, called "The Weight of a Nation." Well, we Knew that.. Kelly Brownell has been observing the Whats & Whys of the lucrative Diet Industry Roulette (as follows immediately from the cynical $mischief of the Pitch-fattening-SWEET-ugly-substances --targeting children: via all means possible to any retarded/ethics-free Ad-Man.) He's head of the The Rudd Center for Food Policy and -??- at Yale, and has been studying How We Got Here since the '70s.. Yep: same greedheads who got rich via Big Tobacco, Ethanol and the other substances where they give you the razor for free --sell the blades forever at %huge markups. Speaks concisely, with thinly-veiled anger at our collective stupidity for our tolerance, here in the Land of Capitalist-Vultures: of allowing the arming of the Nastiest predators ... with $unlimited budgets to persuade. TAX the mofos, as with the ciggy-butts. Tells why diets never work for long and suggests solutions we have all heard: including that most-effective TAX on cigarettes, which -we see- have dramatically reduced That lifetime addiction. (Not the desire, natch--but armaments against yielding to it, once the short-term physical addiction is broken and the results Felt.) Government--be grateful that we have at least the remnants of that necessary means of keeping 300M+ loonies from ... offing each other over a $sports spectacle.. Bon appetit oTyp: title .hr Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all. Edited by Ashton May 14, 2012, 05:30:09 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #357,498 by dmcarls 5/15/12 9:45:09 AM 5/15/12 9:56:05 AM Reply	Re: The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO I am also on the antenna, so I don't get HBO. However, there's a good Youtube video from 2009 explaining why this is such an insidious problem. (90 minutes) http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=dBnniua6-oM I have been following this off and on since the book "Sugar Blues" came out in the middle 80's (25+ years!). It's one of America's worst problems (IMO) and there's no real solution in sight. http://www.amazon.co...1337089378&sr=8-1 In your post, you recommend taxing them, but look what happens: http://www.motherjon.../more-sugar-lobby "...Since there wasn't much else going on that would have seriously affected them, that means they spent $34 million just to defeat the sugar tax." There's also a very recent interview with Kelly Brownell on NPR's Fresh Air: (30 min) http://www.npr.org/2...-obesity-epidemic Anyhow, thanks for the post! Edit: various changes Edited by dmcarls May 15, 2012, 09:49:08 AM EDT Edited by dmcarls May 15, 2012, 09:56:05 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #357,499 by boxley 5/15/12 9:56:40 AM Reply	taxing the wrong end of the pipeline instead of adding a tax to cornsweetened drinks, lets end the subsidies to both sugar and corn. At least modify the fuel subsidies for corn and eliminate any subsidies that go to corn sugar. Still support/create any needed subsidies for feed and food Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #357,506 by drook 5/15/12 1:18:04 PM Reply	+5 damn right -- Drew
Post #357,517 by Ashton 5/15/12 6:07:00 PM Reply	See? .. You Can be substantive, even in *nix brevity :-0 .hr Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all.

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