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The War On Obesity
* War on Terror *
The airwaves are buzzing with talk of a War on Terror.
Surely this is a war that can neither be waged nor won. There is no defined enemy, but the label 'terrorist' seems to be one size fits all. The terrorist is whoever the caller decides to drag into his net. This is why it cannot be waged according to any understanding of the rules of engagement. Criminals are for the courts.
Also how such a war be won when terror is under the control of the ones calling for war. It is not a war that will take away their terrors because these are their own feelings. They need instead a rational analysis of probabilities.
The hidden sniper may well get you, but not before you kill yourself with your own chosen drugs or your lethal highways or by your own stomachs *:
* War on Obesity *
Boy age 8 years old - 14-stone www.metro.co.uk
Diet now, or you will look like me, say Nathalie 15 www.metro.co.uk
Community approach can help slow children's weight gain: Study www.womenone.org
___________________________________ ___________
:( On one end of the world a significant number
of children are overfed and obese.
#: On the other end, a large number of children
are malnourished and starve to their death.
___________________________________ ___________
Hunger in Africa, Arab & Asian and other Countries
I'll tell you what we need; a war on obesity. Whichever way I look at it, if I check my body mass index and find I am outside the range for my height and build, I must have been taking in more calories than I can use.
So, alhamdullilah for Ramadan and the battle with the nafs. It is true that fasting is challenging, but in England where suhoor ends at 5.30 am and iftar comes at 4.00 pm the struggle really begins at iftar time.
-How much of the available food will you eat?
-How much unnecessary food will you eat?
-How much of someone else's share will you eat?
Reports of famine filter in all the time but it is Ramadan when they really make an impact. My own stomach was growling a little bit because I missed the time to have breakfast before fajr but I was shamed into forgetting all about my own excuse for hunger when the Ethiopian Muslims began to talk about their plight on TV.
One mother was desperate to find she was too hungry to breastfeed her baby. Another mother declared that she had not a scrap in the house to feed her children. A young boy solemnly said he was ready to die. Their crops had failed apparently but we had also failed them. It seemed inadequate for such an urgent case and I knew there were other urgent cases elsewhere.
It haunted me for several days whether that woman in Ethiopia finally found food for her family or was she and others like her left to starve?
The airwaves are buzzing with talk of a War on Terror.
Surely this is a war that can neither be waged nor won. There is no defined enemy, but the label 'terrorist' seems to be one size fits all. The terrorist is whoever the caller decides to drag into his net. This is why it cannot be waged according to any understanding of the rules of engagement. Criminals are for the courts.
Also how such a war be won when terror is under the control of the ones calling for war. It is not a war that will take away their terrors because these are their own feelings. They need instead a rational analysis of probabilities.
The hidden sniper may well get you, but not before you kill yourself with your own chosen drugs or your lethal highways or by your own stomachs *:
* War on Obesity *
Boy age 8 years old - 14-stone www.metro.co.uk
Diet now, or you will look like me, say Nathalie 15 www.metro.co.uk
Community approach can help slow children's weight gain: Study www.womenone.org
___________________________________ ___________
:( On one end of the world a significant number
of children are overfed and obese.
#: On the other end, a large number of children
are malnourished and starve to their death.
___________________________________ ___________
Hunger in Africa, Arab & Asian and other Countries
I'll tell you what we need; a war on obesity. Whichever way I look at it, if I check my body mass index and find I am outside the range for my height and build, I must have been taking in more calories than I can use.
So, alhamdullilah for Ramadan and the battle with the nafs. It is true that fasting is challenging, but in England where suhoor ends at 5.30 am and iftar comes at 4.00 pm the struggle really begins at iftar time.
-How much of the available food will you eat?
-How much unnecessary food will you eat?
-How much of someone else's share will you eat?
Reports of famine filter in all the time but it is Ramadan when they really make an impact. My own stomach was growling a little bit because I missed the time to have breakfast before fajr but I was shamed into forgetting all about my own excuse for hunger when the Ethiopian Muslims began to talk about their plight on TV.
One mother was desperate to find she was too hungry to breastfeed her baby. Another mother declared that she had not a scrap in the house to feed her children. A young boy solemnly said he was ready to die. Their crops had failed apparently but we had also failed them. It seemed inadequate for such an urgent case and I knew there were other urgent cases elsewhere.
It haunted me for several days whether that woman in Ethiopia finally found food for her family or was she and others like her left to starve?
Comments on this journal
Obesity fuelled by cheaper food
It was around 8 years ago that the number of overweight people in the world began exceeding the number of underweight people - many of them seriously undernourished.
The figures switched because, contrary to popular prejudice, it's not just Americans and Belgians who
now tend to be fat.
Citizens of the developing world - from Mexico, for exple, Egypt & South Africa - are also tipping the scales as fat.
Since the turn of the century," said Barry Popkin, Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, "we've seen big reductions in poverty, particularly in India and China."
"So we've had large reductions in the number of people who are underweight. At the same time we've had far faster increases in the numbers of those overweight."
Professor Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina
"In every country in the world, the rate of increase in the number becoming overweight and obese has accelerated."
"So today we have reached a point where we have, depending on the estimates, between 1.3bn and 1.6bn overweight people in the world, but fewer, between 700m and 800m, who are underweight."
news.bbc.co.uk
Obese Aussies get big ambulances
Australia's obesity crisis has forced health officials to revamp their fleet of ambulances to cope with a sharp rise in overweight patients.
Super-sized vehicles have been introduced and new air ambulances will be remodelled to carry heavier people.
Studies estimate that 67% of Australian men and over half of all women aged over 25 are overweight or obese.
So many Australians are now bulging at the waistline that ambulances are being equipped with heavy-duty stretchers.
These are capable of carrying patients weighing up to 220kg (34 st 9 lbs).
In the country's most populous state, New South Wales, officials have said that more super-sized ambulances may well be needed to cope with this health crisis.
Special vehicles with over-sized wheelchairs and a hydraulic tailgate were introduced a few years ago to transport larger people.
www.bbc.co.uk