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[unixronin]

Poor nutrition and lack of exercise mean that for the first time in over a century, life expectancy of the new generation in Western nations has decreased.  Meanwhile, the US is fighting (and some say sabotaging) the WHO's strategy against obesity.

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[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

The WHO says that weight-related deaths globally are likely to double over the next 20 years.

And in the UK, the Food Standards Agency has warned that poor nutrition and lack of exercise means young people today on average are likely to live shorter lives than their parents - the first such reduction in more than a century.

And "So Fucking What?" for all that? The only reason the governments care anyway is because it will show the bankruptcy of various pyramid schemes they have running to support old people that much earlier. Some people will figure it out on their own, and not die of artificial malnutrition, and others will balloon and die. As a species, we'll adapt or burn.

I'm not actually being Grr at you, A., I'm just in a cranky mood.

And I'm tired of fucking busybody government or quasigovernment agencies telling me how to live my life, and stealing my money to use specifically to fuck me with.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Preach it, brother.

I'm equally pissed about the plutocracy that's really running this country in the blind pursuit of money and influence at any cost to anyone else.

"Such-and-such agency is trying to do X to reduce the number of people who die of Y, but that might cut into our profits. Let's see what we can do to monkeywrench the fuckers."

And in this context, it's probably topical to mention that the Bush administration is currently proposing a new presidential council to give U.S. companies a greater voice in government decisions (http://www.comcast.net/News/DOMESTIC//XML/1152_Cabinet/58cf5fd8-e6da-4cae-ac7a-9d0f14ed2ba0.html). Exactly what kind of decisions they'll have a greater voice in is unclear from the rather rambling article, but I suspect it'll end up being one more step towards "Government of the people, by the mega-corporations, for the mega-rich."

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps, on further consideration, s/running this country/running this country into the ground/ ....