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...children are already on their way to developing diseases for which obesity is a risk factor, he observes that "we're sick and we're getting sicker." And in case anyone's less concerned with deteriorating health than with its costs, Booth warns that if governments don't get serious about obesity and corpulent teenagers don't make changes to their lifestyles, the nation's health system could one day "crack like a peanut under an elephant's foot...
...extra weight is a problem, it should be reflected in rising death rates from cardiovascular disease. In fact, the opposite has occurred. In March, a month after launching a $A6 million advertising campaign aimed at getting kids to be more active and saying, "obesity is a very serious problem in our society ... obviously it leads to cardiovascular disease," Australia's Minister for Health and Ageing Tony Abbott told a National Heart Foundation conference in Sydney: "There has been a truly remarkable drop in the death rate from cardiovascular disease. Since the 1970s ... [it ]has dropped...
...that better treatment, broader use of drugs for prevention, as well as less cigarette smoking, mean that despite rising average weight, fewer people are dying from cardiovascular disease. This is small cause for celebration, says Sydney University's Booth. "People who are overweight are more likely to suffer serious, debilitating, chronic diseases before they actually die. We've become quite good at keeping people alive in the presence of these diseases, but they have a really poor life in the meantime, and that doesn't show up in studies like Flegal...
...eating, SPANS homed in on a few bad habits, but nothing startling compared with childhood decades ago, while academic Gard says the "serious epidemiological data on food consumption [show ]we've been eating fewer calories each decade since the 1920s." Less food. More exercise. So why are people getting heavier? Some analysts say we just don't know. Others theorize that what we're seeing is a continuation of increasing body mass in well-nourished nations, helped along by falling smoking rates. "I'm not arguing that we know for a fact that the increased weight level of people...
...Since such complaints come up only in India, one can assume that the problem lies not with the syrup concentrate but with the water used to make the soft drink. It is not the first time the Centre for Science and Environment has made such allegations. If it were serious about contamination, it would have targeted the boards supplying drinking water to billions of people rather than raising its voice against the two soda companies. The fact that Kerala's government promptly banned both colas suggests that what's at stake is more about politics than pesticides. Jagmohan Manchanda...