Gosh, Really?

Let’s get something straight, OK? Governments invent crises from whole cloth so they can then pass laws and legislation and claim they are “solving the problem”. Which never existed, but the end result is more laws and less liberties. Case in point (at least the Australians have the guts to say this in their press).

AUSTRALIA’S childhood obesity epidemic has been “exaggerated” and government-led national prevention efforts may be misdirected, with childhood obesity only increasing in lower-income families.

Controversial new research into childhood obesity rates has called into question whether the millions of dollars allocated by the Federal Government for obesity prevention programs should be targeted to the highest-risk groups, rather than focused at the general population.

The findings, based on measurements taken from thousands of Australian children in two nationally representative samples in 2000 and 2006, found that the growth in childhood obesity overall has slowed to a crawl, and the only statistically significant increases are now among boys and girls from low-income homes, The Australian reports.

The same BS is true here. Look around. Do you really see fat people everywhere? They claim the majority of Americans are fat. Most people look perfectly fine to me. Certainly even the chubby ones I see are rarely obese. I won’t deny I’m obese. I am working on it. At least I exercise and watch what I eat (usually). But frankly, I think this growing fanaticism against obesity, which sounds too much like anti-smoking zealotry (and global warming hysteria) is not a good thing. Sure, it might help and encourage some people to eat better and lose weight, but it will lead to more laws restricting choices and punishing those who don’t have a weight problem. Why should the majority be punished for the (alleged) sins of the few?

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