More Obesity

Obesity is being thrust at us from all directions at the moment. The obesity forum has decided that the figures so far are wrong – and it is worse, worse, I tell you! than previously thought. Well, yeah, if you keep changing the starting point for obesity, it will get worse. It doesn’t mean that people are getting fatter, merely that those who were not obese are now being classed as such. That’s what happens when you manipulate statistics – they say whatever you want them to say. There is a word for this; lying. And lying big time is what the health Nazis have been doing. They have been using the flawed BMI measure as a baseline – despite the fact that BMI does not differentiate between muscle and fat, and despite the fact that while BMI might be useful for helping an individual decide whether they are overweight or not – it is not a useful measure of a population because populations consist of individuals and there is no such thing as an average human being. What might be healthy for one may not be for another.

So, we have people who are slightly overweight – and therefore do not have a health problem being lumped in en masse with those who are obese and the whole shebang is based upon junk science, flawed measuring systems and downright lies.

So we are supposed to panic as a consequence of the scary numbers, because, apparently, there is a crisis. The BBC asks how worried should we be? The answer being; we shouldn’t. At all. Some people are fat. Well, that is up to them to deal with. It is not up to the government and it is not up to various quangos and fake charities – because it is none of their business how heavy we are and how fit we are. That is up to us, individuals. And seeing as I do, many, many individuals out and about who are not even close to being overweight, let alone obese, they have nothing to be concerned about. Once again, we have the doom and gloom merchants preaching the end of the world and once again, they will be proved to be wrong. They always are. Unfortunately, while they are preaching, they are sucking on the taxpayer’s teat, ripping us off for millions in the process. Now that is something to be worried about.

In the meantime, I plan to eat and drink what I choose – I don’t care if it is laden with salt, sugar or transfats. I only live once and I plan to enjoy it. If I die before my time, at least I won’t have to listen anymore to the nannying fussbuckets lecturing me about my lifestyle – death, it seems, has its upside.

17 Comments

  1. Did you see the fat woman waddling into the sunset after her appeal to the government to help? Pathetic, fat helpless 27 year old child. “Please teacher, the other children are calling me names, take away my kit kat in case I eat it” Fuck off Missis, you must like stuffing your face and getting fat otherwise you wouldn’t do it. In any case it’s not the job of government to enforce 3rd Reich notions of idealised humanity. Oh wait….

  2. “The BBC asks how worried should we be? The answer being; we shouldn’t. At all.”

    I’m not sure, I think we should be worried, maybe even very worried.

    Not for the fatties of course – their life, their choices.

    But because of what they might decide to impose on us using this as an excuse.

    • There is certainly something chilling in the range of relevant vocabulary packed into such a short article – ‘hard-hitting campaigns’, ‘proactive engagement’, ‘earlier intervention’, ‘government leadership’ and ‘whipped into shape’ (the last applying to industry rather than the individuals concerned).

  3. Following food poisoning just before Christmas I lost a stone and a half in two weeks; NOW do I get a far king knighthood? Probably for services to toilet paper sales . . .

  4. If you think being obese doesn’t matter wait until you are over 70 years of age and need hospital. You will find yourself somewhat unwanted and unadmired.
    Sure they have spcial beds and they like – if they can find them. And if the nurses on at night feel energetic.

  5. I think that you might be missing the point John. Some people are obese and that is a problem for them. The vast majority of people are not. The obesity forum has to lie about there being a huge epidemic of obesity just around the corner to justify its own existence.

    • Spot on, Stonyground. Being morbidly obese is an individual not a societal problem, that is if the person sees it as such. It requires an individual solution, just as eating disorders are an individual problem (caused in some cases, I suspect, by the obsession with the ‘obesity epidemic’).

    • “…The obesity forum has to lie…”

      And will they ever tell the truth?

      Fat chance!

      OK, I’ll get my coat 😆

  6. Meanwhile, @ age 68, I’m still taking the same trouser-size as when I was 30.
    I drink quite a bit of beer, too!

    • Meanwhile, @ age 68, I’m still taking the same trouser-size as when I was 30.

      It doesn’t count if you can only just get them passed your knees.

  7. “Once again, we have the doom and gloom merchants preaching the end of the world and once again, they will be proved to be wrong. They always are.”

    It’s worse than that, and your own statement explains why: the more we hear these morons crying “Wolf!”, the less likely we are to pay attention when a genuine crisis actually happens. (There’s a damned good reason for that fable’s existence.)

    The problem today isn’t that the information to work out whether there really is a wolf at our doorstep isn’t available to us, but that the media are too focused on ad revenues to actually do any fact-checking of their own to filter out all this dross.

    • Of course it was always so: I remember back in my early 30’s (in the early 1980’s) many eminent members of the medical profession informing us that people would be dropping dead from AIDS like flies on street corners, and that the human race was facing Armageddon, etc., etc.

      Didn’t happen of course, but these “experts” did have their moment of glory:- names/piccies in the paper, guest-spots on GMTV and so on.

    • “the more we hear these morons crying “Wolf!”, the less likely we are to pay attention when a genuine crisis actually happens.”

      On the money, Sean. This is why these people are not only self-serving, anti-social nags, but also deeply irresponsible and dangerous to boot.

      They’re the modern incarnation of Matthew Hopkins.

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