fat matrix

Hungry society is impossible to control. Hungry societies start revolutions. Fat society is sick but easily manageable.

Why should we care about the overweight ones anyway. They don't care even about themselves. Besides that, overweight people spend a lot of money for heal related issue and they don’t live long past their retirement dates. In the long run all that FAT may be good for US economy.

Robert Knyzewski

Read the news article that this opinion was posted about:
Majority Of Americans Will Have Diabetes Or Pre-Diabetes By 2020 - With Huge Financial Costs

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We don't have what it takes to prevent this

posted by Wally Geez on 23 Nov 2010 at 10:27 am

This epidemic hasn't happened overnight. Instead of attacking the cause head-on, we are actually INCREASING protection to those with the wrong lifestyle. It is politically incorrect to make any criticism, in fact; "Obesity" is now being classified as a "medical condition", so it will receive all the protection afforded other medical conditions. If you can't even tell someone who is fat that they are fat and need to address it, how are we going to prevent this from happening? Read these articles well and prepare for the economic disaster that awaits us all. The healthy will be asked to subsidize the unhealthy, fair or not.

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Changed Diagnostic Criteria

posted by Troy Robertson on 23 Nov 2010 at 10:56 am

I kicked out periodic three digit fasting glucose readings for 17 years that were considered "normal" until two years ago. Two years ago the high limit was lowered from 126 Mg/Dl to 99 Mg/Dl. Result, more cases of Type 2 Diabetes being diagnosed. This year, my doctor declared me a Type 2 Diabetic based on a fasting glucose of 106, and an A1C of 5.9. It was my first A1C test, but only one of a number of three digit fasting glucose tests over the years, mixed with moderate to high double digit results. Is this an attempt at early intervention, or just an attempt to extract more dollars by the health care and drug companies? I don't know the answer to my question, but somtimes industry and government receive the answers they ask for, rather than correct answers to the right questions.

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Wrong Foods! Too Much Sugar, Carbs!

posted by BB Prescott on 23 Nov 2010 at 11:20 am

Check the stats. Compare when Diabetes started snowballing and when the food industry succeeded in luring the American public into consuming massive amounts of sugar and carbs. ...Hmm. One in three of us are obese now? Soon one in two? ...How can that be?

The truth is, we're becoming known around the world as "The Fat Americans". Our unwholesome diet and sedentary lifestyle is crippling and killing us.

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mr.

posted by pedro mohr on 23 Nov 2010 at 6:03 pm

There is a cure but do not expect to get it from average MD as it is not recognized by AMA.It makes use off minerals like chromium not often considered.

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Gobbs O' Goo

posted by lester figgler on 23 Nov 2010 at 6:36 pm

Amerika is destined to have a scooterized population of quivering lardbucket people freaks. Healthy people who care about themselves will be asked to work harder, maybe get a third job, forego sleep and sustenance so that the Tubby Tubas can keep shopping for Soda Pop and Krispy Kremes. It's a compassion and equality 'thang.

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immune disorder

posted by ellen on 24 Nov 2010 at 4:30 am

Look at all the food additives which people can't control....high fructose corn syrup....msg...aspartame. It's not on the label...then there are vaccinations which lead to allergies and immune disorders.

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Get rid of junk food

posted by David Porter on 24 Nov 2010 at 8:25 am

We need the govt to crack down on unhealthy food--get rid of fatty, sugary junk food, because in the end we ALL pay for the problems of unhealthy people. There's no reason to have soft drinks, processed food, and unhealthy fastfood in America. I have type 2 and am not even chubby. I'm 5'10 and weigh 170 pounds. I have never weighed more than 178.

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Obesity is a social problem, not individual

posted by cybergrace@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2010 at 11:20 am

Obesity is primarily caused by societal choices. Promoting the "cure" as individual will power against soda and donuts won't change much.

(1) The annual per-capita consumption of caloric sweeteners has increased by 40 pounds in the last 40 years, and high fructose CORN syrup accounts for 81% of the 83 additional calories the average American consumes each day from sweeteners alone.

(2) Corn subsidies have saved high fructose corn syrup makers significant cash over the years. 27% below its cost from 1997-2005." As a result, producers booked a cool $2.2 billion in savings between 1997 and 2005 (a period of dramatically heightened subsidy payments).

(3)The U.S. government created a sugar quota in the early 1980s, which strictly limits the amount of foreign-grown sugar that can enter the United States. This quota elevates the U.S. price of sugar to two-to-three times the global level, giving high fructose corn syrup manufacturers the opportunity to undercut sugar producers.

Therefore, it is clear that between the sugar subsidies and foreign sugar quotas, that the U.S. government created an environment for vastly increased and cheaper corn syrup. Also, regulation of corn syrup decreased enabling companies to get away with sneaking vast amounts of corn syrup into foods.

When we can figure out how to organize our government to run its economy without killing our citizens, then we can stop obesity.

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James

posted by James on 28 Nov 2010 at 10:40 am

Since diabetes causes so many other serious (& expensive to treat) health problems, and medical technologies & medications increasingly allow individuals with diabetes to live as long as healthy people - but with far higher medical costs - increases in diabetes cases represent a huge, growing cost burden for Americans & our health care system. We need to get really serious about finding real solutions to this problem.

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Need Education..

posted by Gregg C on 10 Jan 2011 at 7:15 am

Obesity is not the only risk factor for Type 2 Diabetes, age is too. Does the general public realize that close to 66% of individuals over 65 have diabetes or pre-diabetes?? Believe me, not all of them are overweight. So please know the facts before you run off about obese individuals.

No I am not a diabetic or overweight. I just don't have patience with individuals that are easy to point fingers without knowing the facts.

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My doctor said diabeted are increasing because of a virus

posted by Sicily on 01 Mar 2011 at 1:37 pm

I know I'm way late on this forum, but wanted to share some info my doctor shared with me. Apparently there is a virus out there, not unlike the common cold or flu, that actually ravages the pancreatic cells so that they can't produce insulin. He says he's been seeing a lot of fit, healthy patients coming in who got sick and suddenly have diabetes. So while being overweight or genetically disposed to diabetes are two ways to get it, apparently there's also a strain of virus that can cause it as well. It sounds like maybe David Porter may have had that.

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