tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post3783733177000093321..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: In Which I Almost Agree With Bloomberg SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-18341674588921077432013-03-13T21:58:00.962-04:002013-03-13T21:58:00.962-04:00The point about redefining the standards of what c...The point about redefining the standards of what constitutes obesity is one I actually anguish over. I'm very skeptical of the whole idea of an "obesity epidemic". 50 years ago, we were told about starvation in much of the world. Today, we're told more people are obese than starving. When I hear that, I think we should stage a worldwide celebration. <br /><br />If you look at pictures of people from public events in the 50s and 60s, they don't look noticeably different than crowds today. I do see the occasional 300 pounder, but does that mean the population is fatter? Not in any statistics I know.<br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-26225296133284229072013-03-13T21:48:18.753-04:002013-03-13T21:48:18.753-04:00Obesity is genetic, you get it from your parents n...Obesity is genetic, you get it from your parents not sugar. Diabetes (or metabolic syndrome) is genetic as well. You may not recognize the symptoms until your 20's or 30's but you had it at birth. All the sugar in the world won't give you diabetes if you do not genetically have it. Fructose is indeed converted to glucose in the liver. That is the intent. it is normal, what your liver was intended to do. Our body burns glucose, in other words we live on sugar. When you are thinking your mind is burning glucose. 100% of all the carbohydrates you eat are turned into glucose. Your body can turn fat and protein into glucose if you don't eat enough carbs. Without glucose you die. <br /><br />Think about this: By the new standards about 20% of children are obese. Prior to changing those standards in 1998 only 10% were obese. So was it sugar or the new standards that was responsible for the dramatic increase in obesity?<br /><br />28% of African American and 30% of hispanics are obese but only 14% of European Americans are obese. we all eat the same crap so how can that be if it is the food that makes you obese?? Should we make everyone eat diets made for obese people? Remember if 20% are obese then 80% are not. Is it right for schools to limit what the skinny kids eat?? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-92150002986981410112013-03-12T22:27:12.766-04:002013-03-12T22:27:12.766-04:00And even if it WERE Bloomie's business to tell...And even if it WERE Bloomie's business to tell people what they should and shouldn't eat, his soda ban simply cannot work.<br /><br />The 16-ounce sodas are neither the sole nor the primary source of sugar in the fatsos' diets.<br /><br />Almost every fatso (my wife included) has some sort of stash of candy or other sugar-rich food in places like the office, the bedroom, the car (and often all three).<br /><br />Expatriate Owlhttp://expatowl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com