Okay, I've about had it with this. Tonight, I'm driving home in my car and the news comes on the radio and guess what? Apparently everyone in America has become obese.

"Adult obesity rates rose in 31 states last year and obesity rates did not fall in any states, the report said."

http://www.reuters.com/article/health-SP-A/idUSN2736048520070827

Since we are at the beginning of the obesity fraud where we can take careful note, rather than 40 years behind the curve, where we are on smoking, it might be useful for us to pay careful attention to this.

The scale is rigged on "obesity".

You'd think that maybe you were just overweight? But according to the rigged scale, President Bush, Brad Pitt, Chipper Jones, and Cal Ripken, Jr. are "overweight".


Apparently, you weren't so fat 12 years ago.

"In 1995, WHO accepted our views that the lower body mass index (BMI) for the normal adult range should be changed from 20.0 to 18.5 kg/m2. The full normal range was set at a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2"

http://www.obesityresearch.org/cgi/content/full/9/suppl_4/S228


http://www.bigfatblog.com/bmi-change-1998

The CDC even reversed its obesity death estimates by 75% a couple of years ago (btw,at the time, I saw the original report in USA Today and held unto it.)

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2005/04/estimates-o...-related-deaths.html


No long intellectual essay needed here. The "Obesity Epidemic" is a complete, no-brainer fabrication. Pure crap. Ignore it completely and have a cheeseburger.

http://easydiagnosis.com/secondopinions/newsletter17.html
Check out the link above that I posted over at Smokers Club.

Stat change on overweight:
Overweight:

Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.

Old definition: BMI > 28 (men), BMI > 27 (women)
People under old definition: 70.6 million
New definition: BMI > 25
People added under new definition: 30.5 million
Percent Increase: 43%

The definition was changed in 1998 by U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
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Other changes and dates of change are on the article; Diabetes, High Blood pressure, etc.

Under the watch of the co-presidency (Klintons). They're the ones who got this crap all rolling, folks-neighbor against neighbor, white against black, smoker against non-smoker, young against old,men against women, etc;ect;pitting group of american against group of american for political gain- the 'divide-and-conquer' form of leadership/government-the politics of sheer emotion. The cRAT party had been leaning that way for years, but Bill and Hill honed it to a science.

The 'co-presidency' is also when M.A.D.D. and The Center for Science in the Public Interest began to RAPIDLY gain power.

While I agree that the current measurements used to determine whether one is obese or not is a bunch of crap, I still believe that obesity is a far greater health problem than smoking, alcohol use, and drug abuse COMBINED. I'm 47 and admit to a spare tire in my gut that wasn't there when I was 35, but I've seen people 10 or more years younger than me who are too lazy or out-of-shape to walk in places like grocery stores, Wal-Mart, etc. The overwhelming majority of these people are, well, fat, and won't see 50 if they don't get off their asses and DO something about it. I remember working with a very huge young woman (24 years old) a few years back who must have weighed 400 pounds. She had the audacity to tell me I would die young from smoking when she always wheezed and broke out into a sweat from walking 10 feet across a room! HOWEVER, with that said, I can see how the manipulated stats on just WHO is "obese" will be used to deny people foods deemed "unhealthy." i.,e., McDonald's circa 2018: "Sir, your BMI is beyond the limit, so I can't serve you a Big Mac or french fries. Would you like a Chef's salad and apple slices?"

Pat,

I think we essentially agree. I don't think that anyone denies that a person (of average height) weighing 400+ pounds is obese and, without looking at any statistics, I would guess that there are probably more "super-obese" people in America than in other countries.

I think public health is probably trying to drag "the rest of us" in with those people because public health believes that collectivism is the best methodology.

Call it a kind of childish "Three-hundred-million Musketeers" approach.

"All for one and none for all".

"I think public health is probably trying to drag "the rest of us" in with those people because public health believes that collectivism is the best methodology."

Reminds me of The Borg Collective from Star Trek Next Generation.

You will comply. You will be assimilated.

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Originally posted by Lori:

Reminds me of The Borg Collective from Star Trek Next Generation.

You will comply. You will be assimilated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hv4q-Ry6AE