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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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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Hey, works for me.

[Though, #include "devils_advocate.h", how do you know the proposed regulations don't curb the use of HFCS? Dry up the market, and the supply will go away.]

[Side note: When we first came to the US I was boggled to find out that regular supermarket TABLE SALT fer crissakes had sugar added to it.]

As for the UN, yeah, I have pretty damn little use for them. They're a circle of chattering old women who don't have the gumption to take decisive action on anything, but want to be a world government anyway. But in this case the WHO, misguided as it may often be, has recognized a problem and is at least trying to do something about it.

Personally, I think it's largely futile. The only ways you're going to stop some people from becoming pathologically obese are strict food rationing or surgery. (Goose's grandma chose the latter route because she lacks the willpower to maintain anything resembling a reasonable diet.)

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

And then, of course, there are other people who are going to be very large no matter how little they eat, it's simply the way they are.

Having the legislation ban HFCS is even worse, in some regards, since it then becomes the left hand punishing the right. Bah. Better to just remove the tendrils of government from everything it's not supposed to be in. Not that I expect that to ever happen.

*sigh*

-Ogre