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2006-07-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

It turns out the scientists have lots of theories why more of the world is overweight

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-02 14:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Right... "too much food, not enough exercise" can't be the reason. It's gotta be something else!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-07-02 15:29|| 2006-07-02 15:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, it's not my fault! Not my fault at all! Not my fault, not my fault, not my fault! Stop culpabilizing me! And I'm not fat, I'm big-boned, dammit!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-02 15:32|| 2006-07-02 15:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Somehow I just know George Bush will be held responsible.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-02 15:32|| 2006-07-02 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I detect a voracious appetite for grant money...

Posted by Glaitch Groting9149 2006-07-02 15:33|| 2006-07-02 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Just for the record, WHO's 2005 database says the top five countries for obesity are [drumroll, please]: Cook Islands; Nauru; Niue;
Micronesia, Federated States of; and Tonga. Yeah, it has to be either those industrial chemicals or George Bush.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-02 15:40|| 2006-07-02 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, and the population of Niue is roughly 2,200 people. I suppose they have a vote at the U.N. I wonder if they have a fast food restaurant.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-02 15:43|| 2006-07-02 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 my samoan friends are by far the largest I have...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-02 16:26|| 2006-07-02 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's add Nannyism - which scares mothers into holding their children as hostages in their own home. Better a thousand Peds run free than to execute one and free the children.

Let's add Darwinism - since modern living means a lot of kids who would never had made it to reproductive age [childhood diseasess, child labor, etc] are now in their third generation of making more humans.

Note that the WHO doesn't acknowledge that famine and its associated plagues [while still present in Africa] were common prior to the 20th Century and modern food preservation techologies. The world in general was often one or two harvests away from repeatative disaster [real, not Hollywood]. People didn't live long enough to face the complications of 'overweight'. So instead of celebrating success, we all have to listen to more 'experts'.

Posted by Snetch Unater1043 2006-07-02 16:29|| 2006-07-02 16:29|| Front Page Top

#9 viral infection! yeah thats it!

Posted by spazwit 2006-07-02 19:00|| 2006-07-02 19:00|| Front Page Top

#10 "culpabilizing"

Best new word on Rantburg this year.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-07-02 20:01|| 2006-07-02 20:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Yep, it's the air conditioning and not the fact that people won't get off their lazy butts and walk.

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