Why We’re Fat: Is it the Government and Wall Street’s Fault?
Why We’re Fat: It’s the Government and Wall Street’s Fault, Marion Nestle Says
By Morgan Korn | Daily Ticker – 32 minutes ago
Forty years ago, obesity was a small concern -- if one at all -- to
governments, health care professionals and individuals. Today, obesity
rates have skyrocketed around the globe and present one of the single
biggest challenges, both nutritionally and economically, in recent
history.
Nearly 14 percent of women in the world are considered obese, up from 7.9 percent in 1980. Among men, 10 percent are obese, up from 5 percent in 1980. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts the obesity rate will jump from 36 percent in 2012 to 42 percent by 2030. Around the world, 10 percent of adults are obese, and an estimated 3 million deaths worldwide are caused every year by obesity-related illnesses. In the U.S., 70 percent of adults and 17 percent of teens and children are either overweight or obese.
The cost of treating obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes in the U.S. equals $147 billion every year -- that's almost one-fifth of the country's total health expenditures. The CDC defines adult obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. The CDC considers adults with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 a "healthy weight."
Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public policy at New York University, and one of the leading nutritional experts in the nation, has been trying to change how people eat for years. She's written many books on the food industry, detailing how government policy has become intertwined with food choice and obesity. One of the arguments she makes in her latest book, "Why Calories Count," focuses on the impact Wall Street has made on food companies and ultimately what people consume. Obesity rates started to rise in the 1980s, she says in the accompanying video, largely because of demands Wall Street placed on food makers.
Wall Street "forced food companies to try and sell food in an extremely competitive environment," she says. Food manufacturers "had to look for ways to get people to buy more food. And they were really good at it. I blame Wall Street for insisting that corporations have to grow their profits every 90 days."
Traders and analysts may have shifted food companies' focus to producing profits over health, but changes to government policy also contributed to people's relationship with food, she notes. Large government subsidizes given to the corn, wheat, soybean and sugar industries allowed farmers to reap high returns on their crops. Farmers could grow these commodities cheaply and were encouraged by the food industry "to plant as much as they could. Food production increased, and so did calories in the food supply," Nestle writes in her book.
Inexpensive food encouraged more eating, and more eating led to bigger waistlines. "Today, in contrast to the early 1980s, it is socially acceptable to eat in more places, more frequently and in larger amounts, and for children to regularly consume fast foods, snacks and sodas," she writes.
Obesity may be on the rise, but some government officials and private business are trying to stop the upward trend. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed banning large sugary sodas and drinks sold at fast-food restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. A Reuters investigation found that the food and beverage industry has spent $1.5 trillion to defeat soda taxes and marketing restrictions in cities and states and has "mounted referendums to overturn the taxes in the two states" that passed soda taxes. The Walt Disney Company recently announced it would stop airing junk-food TV advertisements on children's programming by 2015.
Nestle supports both initiatives but says individuals will not make healthier food decisions until the government does certain things.
"People perceive fruits and vegetables as being very expensive," she says. "And in fact they are relatively because since 1980 the index cost of fruits and vegetables has gone up by 40 percent. Whereas the index price of sodas and snack foods have gone down by 20 to 30 percent. So there's something wrong with the way we're pricing foods, and that has a lot to do with government policies. I think we need to create a society that makes it easier for people to eat more healthfully."
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I personally think that the single biggest cause of obesity is High Fructose Corn Syrup, lack of enough sleep from struggling to keep jobs while not taking vacations because of worry about keeping one's job. And on top of this people tend to not go to National Parks and beautiful places as much as people used to for a variety of reasons. The "Hiking, swimming, out of doors culture that existed from the 1930s through the 1980s and into the 1990s doesn't exist the way it once did. Our indoor video game culture where one can literally lie in bed and telecommute to work and never leave their home also contributes to obesity. Until people move back to better diets consciously and to fun exercise doing fun things like swimming and hiking beautiful places and riding bicycles and figuring out how to have fun getting exercise things will just tend to get worse where people often die by 25 or 30 from bad diets and lifestyles. During the 1960s and 1970s people died a lot from war, racing cars, suicide from relationships that didn't work out and from drug overdoses. Now people are dying more from ages 20 to 30 from bad diets, no exercise and no sleep and generally bad lifestyles than from the causes of the 1930s to the 1990s.
If you are interested in losing weight one possibility is the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" method with Joe Cross from Australia. You might want to watch his documentary of drinking only fruit and vegetable juices for 60 days while traveling across the U.S. He says it costs about 35 or 40 dollars a day to do this diet but I believe he lost 60 pounds in 60 days and eventually lost about 90 pounds. There is also a truck driver named Phil who was I believe 428 pounds and over time using this diet went down to 200 pounds or below. You watch his progression during the documentary also. here are some of the youtube results of Joe Cross's "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" experiences across America.
Nearly 14 percent of women in the world are considered obese, up from 7.9 percent in 1980. Among men, 10 percent are obese, up from 5 percent in 1980. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts the obesity rate will jump from 36 percent in 2012 to 42 percent by 2030. Around the world, 10 percent of adults are obese, and an estimated 3 million deaths worldwide are caused every year by obesity-related illnesses. In the U.S., 70 percent of adults and 17 percent of teens and children are either overweight or obese.
The cost of treating obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes in the U.S. equals $147 billion every year -- that's almost one-fifth of the country's total health expenditures. The CDC defines adult obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. The CDC considers adults with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 a "healthy weight."
Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public policy at New York University, and one of the leading nutritional experts in the nation, has been trying to change how people eat for years. She's written many books on the food industry, detailing how government policy has become intertwined with food choice and obesity. One of the arguments she makes in her latest book, "Why Calories Count," focuses on the impact Wall Street has made on food companies and ultimately what people consume. Obesity rates started to rise in the 1980s, she says in the accompanying video, largely because of demands Wall Street placed on food makers.
Wall Street "forced food companies to try and sell food in an extremely competitive environment," she says. Food manufacturers "had to look for ways to get people to buy more food. And they were really good at it. I blame Wall Street for insisting that corporations have to grow their profits every 90 days."
Traders and analysts may have shifted food companies' focus to producing profits over health, but changes to government policy also contributed to people's relationship with food, she notes. Large government subsidizes given to the corn, wheat, soybean and sugar industries allowed farmers to reap high returns on their crops. Farmers could grow these commodities cheaply and were encouraged by the food industry "to plant as much as they could. Food production increased, and so did calories in the food supply," Nestle writes in her book.
Inexpensive food encouraged more eating, and more eating led to bigger waistlines. "Today, in contrast to the early 1980s, it is socially acceptable to eat in more places, more frequently and in larger amounts, and for children to regularly consume fast foods, snacks and sodas," she writes.
Obesity may be on the rise, but some government officials and private business are trying to stop the upward trend. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed banning large sugary sodas and drinks sold at fast-food restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. A Reuters investigation found that the food and beverage industry has spent $1.5 trillion to defeat soda taxes and marketing restrictions in cities and states and has "mounted referendums to overturn the taxes in the two states" that passed soda taxes. The Walt Disney Company recently announced it would stop airing junk-food TV advertisements on children's programming by 2015.
Nestle supports both initiatives but says individuals will not make healthier food decisions until the government does certain things.
"People perceive fruits and vegetables as being very expensive," she says. "And in fact they are relatively because since 1980 the index cost of fruits and vegetables has gone up by 40 percent. Whereas the index price of sodas and snack foods have gone down by 20 to 30 percent. So there's something wrong with the way we're pricing foods, and that has a lot to do with government policies. I think we need to create a society that makes it easier for people to eat more healthfully."
end quote from:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-fat-government-wall-street-fault-marion-nestle-175708490.html
Also, if you paste the above web address there is a video that goes along with this article.
I personally think that the single biggest cause of obesity is High Fructose Corn Syrup, lack of enough sleep from struggling to keep jobs while not taking vacations because of worry about keeping one's job. And on top of this people tend to not go to National Parks and beautiful places as much as people used to for a variety of reasons. The "Hiking, swimming, out of doors culture that existed from the 1930s through the 1980s and into the 1990s doesn't exist the way it once did. Our indoor video game culture where one can literally lie in bed and telecommute to work and never leave their home also contributes to obesity. Until people move back to better diets consciously and to fun exercise doing fun things like swimming and hiking beautiful places and riding bicycles and figuring out how to have fun getting exercise things will just tend to get worse where people often die by 25 or 30 from bad diets and lifestyles. During the 1960s and 1970s people died a lot from war, racing cars, suicide from relationships that didn't work out and from drug overdoses. Now people are dying more from ages 20 to 30 from bad diets, no exercise and no sleep and generally bad lifestyles than from the causes of the 1930s to the 1990s.
If you are interested in losing weight one possibility is the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" method with Joe Cross from Australia. You might want to watch his documentary of drinking only fruit and vegetable juices for 60 days while traveling across the U.S. He says it costs about 35 or 40 dollars a day to do this diet but I believe he lost 60 pounds in 60 days and eventually lost about 90 pounds. There is also a truck driver named Phil who was I believe 428 pounds and over time using this diet went down to 200 pounds or below. You watch his progression during the documentary also. here are some of the youtube results of Joe Cross's "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" experiences across America.
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