"obesity is so commonplace that people are beginning to see it as normal"

"One of the first things I noticed when I came to this country was the
taste of the food. Everything is sweet. Everything. Even food that is
supposed to be in no way sweet is sweet. The bread is sweet. Soup is
sweet. Corn chips are sweet. Soy sauce is sweet."

"It wasn't long before I started to scan ingredient labels looking for
the source of this excessive sweetness. And you've no doubt guessed
the culprit already from the title of this blog post: high fructose
corn syrup."

"In the USA, there is a surplus of corn. The government gives
subsidies to farmers who grow corn, which is an incentive for farmers
to grow even more. These subsidies are in place because they are
politically advantageous. With so many people's and companies'
livelihoods dependent on the production of corn, the government tries
to do everything they can to assist so they can win election points.
The problem, of course, is that America doesn't need all that corn.
Nobody does. One of the ways America gets rid of the ridiculous excess
of corn these farmers supply is by turning it into the cheapest form
of sugar out there."

"Are you eating or drinking right now? Chances are, you're eating some
kind of processed food. Check the label. See "High Fructose Corn
Syrup" on there? Ten bucks says you can. When high fructose corn syrup
is included in food as simple as bread and crackers, you know there's
something wrong. When it's put into all kinds of supposedly healthy
foods such as oatmeal, frozen vegetables, fruit juice -- and yes, even
fruit itself -- and yet the government refuses to admit that there is
a problem, you know there's something more at stake."

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here. I had also
never in my life seen an entire aisle of every local supermarket
devoted to food and products for sufferers of diabetes. Americans
might think such aisles are normal, but they're not. They occur only
in America."

"Meanwhile, Americans get fatter and fatter every year. The lifespan
of the average American is starting to slide after centuries of
increase because the population is killing itself with sugar. The
medical system is overloaded (literally) with diseases caused by
obesity. Cultures of obesity acceptance have even sprung up because
obesity is so commonplace that people are beginning to see it as
normal. "

http://www.progressiveu.org/160824-h...syrup-and-the-
image-of-fat-americans-around-the-world

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"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here.

Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.

wrote in message
ups.com...
"One of the first things I noticed when I came to this country was the
taste of the food. Everything is sweet. Everything. Even food that is
supposed to be in no way sweet is sweet. The bread is sweet. Soup is
sweet. Corn chips are sweet. Soy sauce is sweet."

"It wasn't long before I started to scan ingredient labels looking for
the source of this excessive sweetness. And you've no doubt guessed
the culprit already from the title of this blog post: high fructose
corn syrup."

"In the USA, there is a surplus of corn. The government gives
subsidies to farmers who grow corn, which is an incentive for farmers
to grow even more. These subsidies are in place because they are
politically advantageous. With so many people's and companies'
livelihoods dependent on the production of corn, the government tries
to do everything they can to assist so they can win election points.
The problem, of course, is that America doesn't need all that corn.
Nobody does. One of the ways America gets rid of the ridiculous excess
of corn these farmers supply is by turning it into the cheapest form
of sugar out there."

"Are you eating or drinking right now? Chances are, you're eating some
kind of processed food. Check the label. See "High Fructose Corn
Syrup" on there? Ten bucks says you can. When high fructose corn syrup
is included in food as simple as bread and crackers, you know there's
something wrong. When it's put into all kinds of supposedly healthy
foods such as oatmeal, frozen vegetables, fruit juice -- and yes, even
fruit itself -- and yet the government refuses to admit that there is
a problem, you know there's something more at stake."

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here. I had also
never in my life seen an entire aisle of every local supermarket
devoted to food and products for sufferers of diabetes. Americans
might think such aisles are normal, but they're not. They occur only
in America."

"Meanwhile, Americans get fatter and fatter every year. The lifespan
of the average American is starting to slide after centuries of
increase because the population is killing itself with sugar. The
medical system is overloaded (literally) with diseases caused by
obesity. Cultures of obesity acceptance have even sprung up because
obesity is so commonplace that people are beginning to see it as
normal. "

http://www.progressiveu.org/160824-h...syrup-and-the-
image-of-fat-americans-around-the-world


Not to defend the fattie Americans, but it's just as "big" a problem in
Australia...in fact, Australia may be fatter than the US according to recent
studies:

per http://www.katelundy.com.au/obesity.htm
"In the year 2000, the United States had the dubious distinction of having
the world's highest proportion of overweight adults. Recent statistics
indicate that the unfortunate mantle of the world's fattest nation may have
passed to Australia. First or second is irrelevant. The simple fact is that
this is a podium finish, we would rather not have.
The increase in overweight and obesity incidence rates in Australia in the
past 10 years is distressing. Results of the National Heart Foundations
National Risk Factor Prevalence Study showed that in Australia 52% of adult
males and 36% of adult females were either overweight or obese in 1998.

By 2000, the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study showed that
these rates had increased to 68% for males, and 53% for females. That
represents a combined increase of over 30%."

per
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...?from=storyrhs
"Australia still has an adult-obesity rate (16 per cent) lower than that in
the US (21 per cent), but the report says the rate of obesity is increasing
at similar rates in both countries.

The proportion of Australians obese and overweight is already the same as
the American figure in 1995."


GG
http://www.WeightWare.com
Computer-Assisted Weight Management

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
...
wrote in message
. com...

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here.

Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty
resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.

Yeah, things were much better when we worked from daylight to dark and
barely earned enough to eat gruel.

"GaryG" wrote in message
...
wrote in message
ups.com...
"One of the first things I noticed when I came to this country was the
taste of the food. Everything is sweet. Everything. Even food that is
supposed to be in no way sweet is sweet. The bread is sweet. Soup is
sweet. Corn chips are sweet. Soy sauce is sweet."

"It wasn't long before I started to scan ingredient labels looking for
the source of this excessive sweetness. And you've no doubt guessed
the culprit already from the title of this blog post: high fructose
corn syrup."

"In the USA, there is a surplus of corn. The government gives
subsidies to farmers who grow corn, which is an incentive for farmers
to grow even more. These subsidies are in place because they are
politically advantageous. With so many people's and companies'
livelihoods dependent on the production of corn, the government tries
to do everything they can to assist so they can win election points.
The problem, of course, is that America doesn't need all that corn.
Nobody does. One of the ways America gets rid of the ridiculous excess
of corn these farmers supply is by turning it into the cheapest form
of sugar out there."

"Are you eating or drinking right now? Chances are, you're eating some
kind of processed food. Check the label. See "High Fructose Corn
Syrup" on there? Ten bucks says you can. When high fructose corn syrup
is included in food as simple as bread and crackers, you know there's
something wrong. When it's put into all kinds of supposedly healthy
foods such as oatmeal, frozen vegetables, fruit juice -- and yes, even
fruit itself -- and yet the government refuses to admit that there is
a problem, you know there's something more at stake."

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here. I had also
never in my life seen an entire aisle of every local supermarket
devoted to food and products for sufferers of diabetes. Americans
might think such aisles are normal, but they're not. They occur only
in America."

"Meanwhile, Americans get fatter and fatter every year. The lifespan
of the average American is starting to slide after centuries of
increase because the population is killing itself with sugar. The
medical system is overloaded (literally) with diseases caused by
obesity. Cultures of obesity acceptance have even sprung up because
obesity is so commonplace that people are beginning to see it as
normal. "

http://www.progressiveu.org/160824-h...syrup-and-the-
image-of-fat-americans-around-the-world


Not to defend the fattie Americans, but it's just as "big" a problem in
Australia...in fact, Australia may be fatter than the US according to
recent
studies:

per http://www.katelundy.com.au/obesity.htm
"In the year 2000, the United States had the dubious distinction of having
the world's highest proportion of overweight adults. Recent statistics
indicate that the unfortunate mantle of the world's fattest nation may
have
passed to Australia. First or second is irrelevant. The simple fact is
that
this is a podium finish, we would rather not have.
The increase in overweight and obesity incidence rates in Australia in the
past 10 years is distressing. Results of the National Heart Foundations
National Risk Factor Prevalence Study showed that in Australia 52% of
adult
males and 36% of adult females were either overweight or obese in 1998.

By 2000, the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study showed that
these rates had increased to 68% for males, and 53% for females. That
represents a combined increase of over 30%."

per
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...?from=storyrhs
"Australia still has an adult-obesity rate (16 per cent) lower than that
in
the US (21 per cent), but the report says the rate of obesity is
increasing
at similar rates in both countries.

The proportion of Australians obese and overweight is already the same as
the American figure in 1995."


GG
http://www.WeightWare.com
Computer-Assisted Weight Management


Too Many UK Women Are Overweight At Start Of Pregnancy
29 Jan 2007

UK scientists are predicting that by 2010 over one fifth of pregnant women
in the UK will be obese at the start of their pregancy. This puts an
enormous strain on the pregnancy, increasing the risk to the health of both
mother and baby.

The study is published in the BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology.

The research team comprised scientists from the North East Public Health
Observatory NEPHO), based in Teesside, UK. The NEPHO has a special interest
in studying the prevalence of obesity in the North East UK because it has
been increasing at a higher rate than the national average.

They studied the records of 36,821 women who had attended a local maternity
unit between the start of 1990 and the end of 2004 (15 years). They used
statistical regression methods to look for correlations between maternal
obesity and demographic and socio-economic variables over the 15 year
period. They used National Census data to put the local data in the context
of the general population.

The results showed that the percentage of women who are obese at the start
of their pregnancy rose from 9.9 to 16.0 per cent in the 15 year period.
Using a quadratic statistical model the researchers showed that the rate is
accelerating, that is the speed of the growth is getting bigger each year.
The incidence of obesity in newly pregnant women is predicted to be 22 per
cent if the trend continues.

The results also showed a significant correlation between maternal obesity
at start of pregnancy and living in a deprived area, and also with being
older. Women from poorer areas were twice as likely to be obese at time of
conception.

Pregnant women who are obese have a greater risk of miscarriage, get blood
clots, suffer from pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure with too much protein
in the urine). They are also more likely to give birth by Caesarean .
Accroding to a Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
report, 35 per cent of women who had a pregnancy-related death were obese.
Babies born to obese mothers also tend to be larger and have a slightly
higher risk of dying.

"Maternal obesity is something that has crept up on us," said one of the
study team, Professor John Wilkinson who is Director of the NEPHO.

The researchers draw attention to the bigger load this will place on
maternity services and called it a serious "public health time bomb". They
called for public health interventions to try and reverse the trend.

"Trends in maternal obesity incidence rates, demographic predictors, and
health inequalities in 36 821 women over a 15-year period."
N Heslehurst, LJ Ells, H Simpson, A Batterham, J Wilkinson, CD Summerbell.
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 114 (2),
187-194.
doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.01180.x

Seth Hammond wrote in message ...

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here.

Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty
resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the
collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.

Yeah, things were much better when we worked from daylight to dark and
barely earned enough to eat gruel.

They certainly were for your beloved dickyank corporations. Now they have
to outsource their sweatshop practices to other third-world countries --
spoilsports.

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
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Seth Hammond wrote in message ...

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
.. .
wrote in message
. com...

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here.

Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty
resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the
collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.

Yeah, things were much better when we worked from daylight to dark and
barely earned enough to eat gruel.

They certainly were for your beloved dickyank corporations. Now they have
to outsource their sweatshop practices to other third-world countries --
spoilsports.

Foreign workers in field and fen
Turkey mogul Bernard Matthews has revealed that he has employed more than
600 workers from Portugal at his Norfolk processing plant because he cannot
hire enough local people.
New figures indicate there could be as many as 20,000 foreign migrant
workers in the east of England, picking produce on farms and working in
factories.

At a lettuce farm in the shadow of Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, almost
the entire crew harvesting a crop for supermarket chains consists of
agricultural students from abroad.

The workers are in the UK legally, and employers say they are desperately
needed.


" We pay an average of £5.80 an hour. Could you run a home on £5.80? "
John Buckman
Employment agent



Sharon Cross, who hires the pickers, said: "What we basically have here is
very seasonal work, and we find it very difficult to recruit."

Employers say local people do not want the jobs, because the pay is too low.

John Buckman, who recruits workers with his firm Jark Resourcing, said:
"People who live locally with the UK overheads can't perform to the income
that agencies like us can give them.

"We pay an average of £5.80 an hour. Could you run a home on £5.80?

"We need the migrant workers, who can convert that money back into their own
country at a higher rate."

Andre Martins, who works at Bernard Matthews' plant in Great Witchingham
with his father and brother, said: "The money's very good. What I earn in
Portugal in a month, I earn here in a week."

In Portugal, the unemployment rate is 11%, compared with East Anglia's 2%
unemployment rate. In Thetford, Norfolk, there are about 3,000 Portuguese
workers, many of whom work in food processing for firms such as the bacon
packer Tulip International.

Foreign workers come to the UK under two schemes: If they are EU citizens
they are free to work here although they must pay tax and national
insurance.

Those from outside the EU come in under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers'
Scheme under which the government will give them a permit to work for up to
six months.

Problems and perks

Confusion about the workers' immigration status may have contributed to some
difficulties, as in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Police have appealed for witnesses after a group of about 40 people
reportedly attacked Portuguese men in the town last week.

Work in the fields and other agricultural sites can be hot and difficult,
but it is not without some perks.

Judy Randon, of Polehouse Nurseries in Essex, said the company's 180 foreign
workers are provided with amenities like housing, English lessons, a games
room, internet access and trips.

Thomas Moras, a lettuce-picker from Lithuania working near Ely, told BBC
Look East he enjoys his work.

"Students always need money - I like travel, and other people and other
countries are interesting."

"Seth Hammond" wrote in message
...

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
...
Seth Hammond wrote in message ...

"gnarled gnu direct" wrote in message
. ..
wrote in message
. com...

"Something else I noticed right away when I came to thise country was
the rampant obesity. There is a stereotype around the world of the
"fat American." I had previously dismissed it as an exaggeration or
outright fallacy. But I was wrong. We have our fair share of obese
people in Australia, but I have never seen obese people in such large
numbers - or with such wide girths - as I've seen here.

Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty
resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the
collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.

Yeah, things were much better when we worked from daylight to dark and
barely earned enough to eat gruel.

They certainly were for your beloved dickyank corporations. Now they have
to outsource their sweatshop practices to other third-world countries --
spoilsports.

Foreign workers in field and fen
Turkey mogul Bernard Matthews has revealed that he has employed more than
600 workers from Portugal at his Norfolk processing plant because he
cannot hire enough local people.
New figures indicate there could be as many as 20,000 foreign migrant
workers in the east of England, picking produce on farms and working in
factories.

At a lettuce farm in the shadow of Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, almost
the entire crew harvesting a crop for supermarket chains consists of
agricultural students from abroad.

The workers are in the UK legally, and employers say they are desperately
needed.


" We pay an average of £5.80 an hour. Could you run a home on £5.80? "
John Buckman
Employment agent



Sharon Cross, who hires the pickers, said: "What we basically have here is
very seasonal work, and we find it very difficult to recruit."

Employers say local people do not want the jobs, because the pay is too
low.

John Buckman, who recruits workers with his firm Jark Resourcing, said:
"People who live locally with the UK overheads can't perform to the income
that agencies like us can give them.

"We pay an average of £5.80 an hour. Could you run a home on £5.80?

"We need the migrant workers, who can convert that money back into their
own country at a higher rate."

Andre Martins, who works at Bernard Matthews' plant in Great Witchingham
with his father and brother, said: "The money's very good. What I earn in
Portugal in a month, I earn here in a week."

In Portugal, the unemployment rate is 11%, compared with East Anglia's 2%
unemployment rate. In Thetford, Norfolk, there are about 3,000 Portuguese
workers, many of whom work in food processing for firms such as the bacon
packer Tulip International.

Foreign workers come to the UK under two schemes: If they are EU citizens
they are free to work here although they must pay tax and national
insurance.

Those from outside the EU come in under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers'
Scheme under which the government will give them a permit to work for up
to six months.

Problems and perks

Confusion about the workers' immigration status may have contributed to
some difficulties, as in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Police have appealed for witnesses after a group of about 40 people
reportedly attacked Portuguese men in the town last week.

Work in the fields and other agricultural sites can be hot and difficult,
but it is not without some perks.

Judy Randon, of Polehouse Nurseries in Essex, said the company's 180
foreign workers are provided with amenities like housing, English lessons,
a games room, internet access and trips.

Thomas Moras, a lettuce-picker from Lithuania working near Ely, told BBC
Look East he enjoys his work.

"Students always need money - I like travel, and other people and other
countries are interesting."

Will somebody please tell me why you engles have to bring in foreign workers
when there's so GODDAM many engles on the dole? Has slacking become the
national pastime?

"Seth Hammond" wrote in message

Turkey mogul Bernard Matthews has revealed that he has employed more than
600 workers from Portugal at his Norfolk processing plant because he
cannot hire enough local people.

So the gist of your cite is how the engle economy is booming and that people
are flooding here from abroad due to our great prospects?

"Seth Hammond" wrote in message

Will somebody please tell me why you engles have to bring in foreign
workers when there's so GODDAM many engles on the dole? Has slacking
become the national pastime?

Only the truly useless (windowlicker photographers and other such scum) are
on the dole.

Do you have to do the housework while sweet wife is out earning?