Maggie's Farm

Re: "A World Drowning In Fatties".
There is a reason that these statistics conflate the overweight with the obese. The intent of course is to inflate the problem and misinform. Is a 6' 185 lb man really a "fattie". They are counted with the fatties just as a 6' 350 lb man is. This is a political agenda not so different from the income inequality issue in that it is to be used to promote a specific agenda. They want the government to make some foods illegal and to prescribe what should be eaten. Next they will take children from their parents because they served some food on the "no-fry" list. The left commonly blames fast foods or meat or refined foods as the culprit in this "fattie" pandemic. But what percentage of the "fatties" are obese and worthy of regulating? Certainly not the 33% they would have you believe since most of these people are comfortably overweight but at no risk of becomng obese. Lets say that 15% of Americans (or the world) are truely obese. But yet we all eat the same foods. Sure there is a small clique of people who are vegans or on a paleo diet or something of the sort but 95% of us eat the foods commonly found in the supermarkets in our nieghbrhoods. So 85% of Americans are not obese and yet they eat the same foods. You would think this fact would slowly dawn on those who want our government to control what we eat. How can it be the food making us "fatties" when 85% of us are not fatties and eat the same food? But this oposite side of the arguement never comes up. If junk food made us fat why doesn't it make all of use "fat"? It must be something else, something obvious, something the food police are blind to. Hmmmm. Could it be it's genetic? Since it tends to run in families and in ethnicities could it possibly be that it is genetic? How could the food police have missed this obvius answer? Oh wait! You can't use that fact to gain political control of our food and eating habits. Scratch that theory. The science is settled and 97% of food police agree it's our diet that is making us all obese. All dissenting opinions will be deleted or edited to conform to the politicaly correct view.

Let me simplify:
Everyone with a BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight. Everyone with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. But in fact we all know people with a BMI of 30 or more who do not look obese. The BMI cutoffs were choosen arbitrarily and the people with the most input to this were vegan activists whit an agenda. But even if you use the activist own data which lumps normal weight people (BMI 25) with obese people to inflate their stats you are still left with the inconvenient truth that 2/3rds of the people are neither over weight nor obese. This is significant because as I pointed out we all eat the same things (pretty much all) and yet 2/3rds failed to become "fatties". What this should tell you is it isn't our diet. If fast food or supermarket prepared foods caused obesity then we would all be obese. This is a classic case of looking at the glass and calling it half full (actually 1/3rd full) unstead of half empty (2/3rds empty). Obesity is genetic, yu get it from your mom or dad not from McDonalds. The BMI is a phony scale created by food nannies with an agenda.