RECIPE FOR DISASTER

We spotted this article on the web but can't recall at which site. And we're re-publishing it in the hopes that whoever owns the copyright doesn't object. The ramifications of its content is unimaginable.

"Ninety percent of Americans' household food budget is spent on processed foods, the majority of which are filled with additives and stripped of nutrients. Discover which common ingredients in the foods you eat pose the greatest risk to your health.

Grab the broccoli with cheese sauce from the freezer, the box of instant rice pilaf from the pantry, or the hot dogs from your fridge and squint at the ingredient list's fine print. You'll likely find food additives in every one.

Is this healthy? Compared to the foods our bodies were built to eat, definitely not.

Processed, packaged foods have almost completely taken over the diet of Americans. In fact, nearly 90 percent of our household food budget is spent on processed foods, according to industry estimates.

Unfortunately, most processed foods are laden with sweeteners, salts, artificial flavors, factory-created fats, colorings, chemicals that alter texture, and preservatives. But the trouble is not just what's been added, but what's been taken away. Processed foods are often stripped of nutrients designed by nature to protect your heart, such as soluble fiber, antioxidants, and "good" fats. Combine that with additives, and you have a recipe for disaster."

THE BEST NEWS

According to yesterday's papers, a young boy who was taken from his parents and put into care because of his extreme obesity, has lost 20kg!

The child was the only confirmed case of a young Australias being removed from his family because of excessive weight problems.

He is now living with carers in Sydney's western suburbs, and is doing well.

He was nine years of age in 2007 when he was removed from his family by the Department of Children's Services.

CURE FOR OBESITY

Don Tolman noted author, public speaker, trainer, educator, entertainer and experimental nutritional-eating researcher has the definitive answer on what's crippling the Western World today.

Just like the Obesity Police, Don says "obesity is NOT a disease."

"Eat in moderation. Eat whole foods (not processed foods), get out and about and get plenty of fresh air, sunshine, walk every day, drinks lots of water, have healthy relationships and have a passion for what you do."

Naturally, the medical world sells it quite differently.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Despite obesity eating up the largest part of global health budgets, the "health-care" industry's profits reach trillions of dollars annually while they "attempt to find a cure".

To learn more on Don Tolman's healthy approach to living go to
www.dontolmaninternational.com

EASY

The increasing number of studies into obesity has us wondering whether it's the new recession-proof growth industry: no one is prepared to say that the solution is simple, and we can not understand why. To our mind using our God given intelligence is the answer that the geniuses are looking for. Eating junk-food will make you fat. Eating natural food will not do that.

OUTRAGE

Splashed across the front page of Sydney's Daily Telegraph today comes the appalling news that babies as young as one are being diagnosed as obese, with a major hospital treating youngsters twice the size they should be.

The children are developing adult conditions including liver and heart disease, diabetes and sleep apnoea.

This atrocity is being thrust upon our children by those in the community who couldn't give a shit!

The Obesity Police cops a lot of flack over the stance it takes on obesity, its causes and effects, but the passion with which we highlight the dangers of this scourge now highlights the most abhorrent situation to arise to date.

If we reported that children in Australia as young as one were purposely being starved to death there would be outrage.

So why not the outrage when children as young as one are being fed so much crap that they are ending up twice the size that they should be.

And don't go using the argument that these children have "inherited" an obese gene or that their keepers simply have "no idea". That just won't cut it.

All creatures great and small know instinctivey how to care for their young, and care they do: for if they didn't there would be no World for us in which to live.

Due to their keepers malevolent attitude to life, these children have inherited a lifetime of misery, of catastrophic psycho-socio-physical problems, that will plague them for the rest of their life.

We say hang those responsible for creating this preventible, shameful historic mess.

LITTLE BRITAIN FAT FIGHTERS

FAT CATS

Why are we not surprised at the results of a recent Choice investigation into popuar diet plans such as Betty Baxter, MediTrim and Tony Ferguson.

Choice found that most did not provide the minimum required micronutrients and all except Betty Baxter were very low in fibre.

It seems the pharmacies were doing very nicely out of the sales, but not so the customers. Once again more dollars for more quickfixes.

What is so hard about eating fresh, wholesome, nutritious food?

FAT TAX

It has been suggested that an extra tax be added to junk food. The thinking that it would encourage people to buy healthy products. This may sound good in principle but it would not work in practice.

Experience has shown, the higher the cost for junk food the less will be spent on healthy food. You can see this every day of your life. Follow lovers of junk food around a supermarket as they pick and chose what to eat.

How may trolleys filled with fresh wholesome food do you see? Not many. How many trolleys do you see laden with junk? Nearly all.

Our suggestion?

Have a fat tax, taxing fat individuals. The fatter they are the more tax they pay. Just as we supposedly do with income tax. The more we make the more we pay.

Call it the "Obesity Tax". The more we weigh the more tax we pay.

Far fetched? Some may think so. Realistic? We think so!

Economic indicators show that an increasing burden is being placed on the economy by overweight and unhealthy people.

Hit them where it hurts and we may start to put an end to this seemingly untenable war.

HEAVEN HELP US

"Experts" are calling for more lap-band surgery to be performed to help fight the obesity epidemic. Of course they would. It puts more money in their pocket.

Lap-band surgery costs approximately $AUD 15,000. That's right, fifteen THOUSAND dollars.

For your money you get a silicone belt implanted FOR LIFE around the top of your stomach. Supposedly you get "full" more quickly and supposedly lose weight.

Sure there are success stories. Every product on the market place has success stories. You seldom read about the disasters.

What lap-band doesn't address is the fact that how a man thinks, he is. So therefore, the thinking on food isn't changed by "the band", the gut is merely tied up: like a hostage.

Nutrition isn't addressed either, 'cause you can eat whatever you want. Lap-band doesn't help you eat any more heathily. You can eat whatever you want. You may shovel in whatever crap you like. With "the band" you just can't shovel in as much crap.

Sensible? Practical? Desirable? We think not.

It's the blight of our society, the notion that there should be a quickfix for everything. Because for every quickfix there's an "expert" out there making a quickbuck. In this instance it's the medicos making $AUD 15,000 for every quickfix.

A report released this week by Access Economics Australia’s premier economic consulting firm, estimates the total cost of obesity for 2008 - just in Australia - at a staggering $AUD 58.2 billion. That's 58.2 million million dollars.

Comparable figures for the USA will reach gargantuan proportions at $AUD 842 billion: eight hundred and forty-two million, million dollars.

Heaven help us!

FAT CHANCE

A Cairns (Queensland) woman claims she was discriminated against by Jetstar for being overweight.

According to several newspapers, the woman, an IT worker who weighs 160kg, claims she was forced to pay for a second seat for herself 'for other peoples comfort' when she flew from Cairns to Coolangatta yesterday.

On the basis that discrimination means behavior that treats people unequally, the woman's notion that she has been discriminated against is completely misguided.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight for an adult female in the US is 162.9 pounds (or 76.95kg).

The 160kg woman is more than twice the size and weight of the average adult female and could not under any circumstances be expected to be treated equally.

She herself expects preferential treatment because of her size. If she did not expect preferential treatment she would be satisfied to purchase one seat and attempt to squeeze her over-sized body into it for the joy-ride.

In this instance the Northern Belle's choice to allow herself to become so grossly overweight (that she becomes equal in size to a Northern Fur Seal which weighs 160kg) is just one of the many costs of being out of whack with nature.

We'll have more on that later!

EDITORS NOTE: In the event that such a person became ill, it would take a champion power lifter to move her to safety.