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...Zealand adults are either overweight or obese. Based on its National Health Survey 2004-05, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that 62% of men and 45% of women are above their ideal weight range (up from 52% and 37% respectively in 1995). Nor is there any argument that body weight has some relationship to health. Clearly, being severely obese (or severely underweight) is a recipe for trouble...
...Western world are at a weight where there isn't even a correlation with increased health risk, let alone a causal relationship," says Campos. The notion that overweight and obesity turn people into medical time bombs "is being exaggerated by roughly a factor of 10," he says. "An argument that may be relevant to the heaviest 6% of the population is being applied to 65% of the population...
This speech was not the first time that Summers has called for developing countries to invest their reserves more aggressively; he made the same argument in March while travelling through India...
When asked what feedback he has received since March and whether he has revised his argument much since then, Summers said that he has been busy, “either completing my presidency at Harvard...or recovering from my presidency at Harvard,” a remark that drew laughter from the audience...
...airline system shouldn't be secure. Tell me why port security shouldn't be better. Tell me why border security shouldn't be our first priority. Tell me why I shouldn't care that the FBI still has an inoperable computer system. If Ms. Coulter can give me an argument to dissuade me those things aren't of paramount importance, I'll listen...