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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

KILLING ME SWEETLY III


Killing me sweetly III


THE SILENT EPIDEMIC THAT IS BECOMING
A NATIONAL SECURITY DISASTER



Obesity causes directly or indirectly 300,000 deaths each year in the US!
(US military casualty in Iraq 2003-2010: 4,385)

The economic cost of obesity in the United States was about
$ 117 billion in 2000
Are the US making the wrong war?

Experts consider that up to 70% of all cancer may be linked with bad eating habits
and sedentary lifestyle. Among all preventable cancer risks factor,
only smoking claims more lives



WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?

Inspector Clouseau did not went to Iraq to find them?
Actually he found them in our very own kitchen
even in the vending machine in schools.





There are many time bombs in our kitchen,
but we know already the most powerful one,
hiding in almost every item we eat or drink since we are babies:



HFCS is of course not the only culprit for obesity epidemic,
but is probably the major one





In 2006 Dr. Richard Carmona.
former US General Surgeon wrote:

“Obesity is the terror within unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt”

Since then the situation is worse

In February 2010 First Lady Michelle Obama launched her
“Let’s move”
campaign and hopefully help remedy the current childhood obesity epidemic.
If you think epidemic sounds a little too dramatic, then consider this:
It is estimated that one of every three children in the US is obese!
And 13% of the children and adolescents have NAFLD
(Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease)
directly caused by HFCS



Obesity slowly but inexorably spread
all over the world we should talk now about
“GLOBESITY”





Obesity and
high fructose corn syrup


The number of Americans who are obese has quadrupled in recent years,
a study shows. At the same time,
high fructose corn syrup consumption has risen at parallel rates.

The diagram shoes the perfect parallelism between consumption of HFCS and obesity. Today Westerners consume a staggering 142 pounds a year of sugar 63 pounds from HFCS



Among these children and adolescents an overlooked proportion has NAFLD
(Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease)
why because fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup is NOT glucose
remember our previous
“KILLING ME SWEETLY” I and II

Fructose is a dose dependent chronic hepatotoxin
It is ALCOHOL WITHOUT THE BUZZ



FAT FOR LIFE



Yes, we are all fat for life
IF NO Governmental action is taken.

Obesity is a public health issue stemming from biochemistry
not an individual one stemming from behavior
Every other stimulator of reward
(nicotine, morphine, ethanol, amphetamine, cannabis)
has required governmental action:

* Education
* Regulation
* Interdiction (in some case)

BUT FOR FRUCTOSE, HFCS WE HAVE NOTHING

UNTIL THERE IS A GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
DON’T EXPECT THE GLOBESITY EPIDEMIC TO IMPROVE

FOLLOW OUR “KILLING ME SWEETLY” SERIES

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