Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Lancet, a radical restructuring of global commerce and food distribution is necessary to solve world hunger, prevent obesity and stop agriculture related carbon emissions.
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report
Published: January 27, 2019
Obesity is still increasing in prevalence in almost all countries and is an important risk factor for poor health and mortality. The current approach to obesity prevention is failing despite many piecemeal efforts, recommendations, and calls to action. This Commission following on from two Lancet Series on obesity looks at obesity in a much wider context of common underlying societal and political drivers for malnutrition in all its forms and climate change. The Commission urges a radical rethink of business models, food systems, civil society involvement, and national and international governance to address The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change. A holistic effort to reorient human systems to achieve better human and planetary health is our most important and urgent challenge.
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Read more: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/global-syndemic
From the full report;
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The Commission developed a conceptual model forThe Global Syndemic that represents an inside out version of the socioecological model.
The natural systems upon which everything on the planet depends are at the centre, and the layers of human systems overlay that with the most fundamental systems (eg, governance) on the inside and moving outwards from macro to micro systems. The Foresight Obesity Systems Map,12 which was the first conceptual model to show obesity as a consequence of complex adaptive systems, has a structure centred on the individual, similar to the socioecological model. This structure is helpful in explaining differences between individuals but less helpful in explaining epidemics sweeping across entire populations.
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This report describes additional sources of actions to strengthen governance and accountability systems, address vested industry interests, leverage international human rights treaties, and activate community actions and social change. Vested interests constitute a major source of policy inertia that prevents change to the existing systems. For example, national food producers and transnational ultra processed food and beverage manufacturers often exert a disproportionate influence on legislators and the policy making process. Governments face the challenge of regaining control to protect policy making and prioritise the public good over commercial interests, and restructuring business models to minimise negative externalities that contribute to poor human health and damage environments. We assert that there is a right to wellbeing based on state obligations to ensure that all people, especially vulnerable populations, have access to healthy foods and healthy environments. Many initiatives to address The Global Syndemic can begin at the community level, where the systems under local control can be collectively reoriented to achieve better health and environmental outcomes. Nonetheless, community initiatives will need to be reinforced by a regulatory and policy framework, as well as economic incentives and disincentives, to provide healthy and affordable food and beverage choices and promote social and economic environments that encourage physical activity and healthy behaviours.
The Commission believes that the recognition of The Global Syndemic will foster a convergence of many interests, encourage the emergence of an effective social movement, and realign policy measures and governance to reduce obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. Comprehensive and systemic actions are urgently needed.
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Comrades lets have a five year plan!
Didn’t we do this before? In the Soviet Union? In China!
Don’t worry, no one will starve this time, because we control all the newsmedia. Reports of poor harvests and people starving will never occur.
Oh and we’ll use our electric tractors to harvest. Or perhaps manual labour – to solve unemployment and give all those university professors who teach liberal arts something to do.
Despite communism’s abject failures it always, “This time we’ll get it right, trust us.” from the true believers like AOC.
Communism never fails, it’s that the government didn’t go far enough with it!
/s/
Well, this plan will certainly solve the obesity problem.
Note: There is only one fat person in all of North Korea.
Except for the great leader.
The last N. Korean who said the Dear Leader was FAT … disappeared … and was never seen again.
Kenji
Eaten?
Soylant Green! … is … N.Korean dissidents!!!!!
These are the self same people who told us all way back that the way to health was to stuff our faces with pasta and bread. Then they blame us for getting fat.
At the same time, one of yesterday’s main BBC stories was that as a result of a no deal Brexit, there might be a shortage of lettuce, just about the most pointless food there is!
Sara Hall
And also one of the easiest to grow.
Usual BBC anti Brexit nonsense of course.
The BBC story highlighted 2 things.
1) The top execs at our supermarket chains are ignorant
2) So are the BBC for not pointing out their ignorance
The claimed reason for the shortage of imported out of UK season produce was that the French will carry out inspections as they leave Calais. Why on earth would they be interested in the quality of food being EXPORTED from the EU to the UK? Complete drivel. What is a likely – but by no means 100% certain – is that inspections on goods being IMPORTED into the EU from the UK will cause delays and leave ferries unable to unload. Stuck Calais full of trucks that can’t get off means the ferries can’t load up with trucks carrying food coming to the UK.
When I lived in Huntingdon, (a town west of Cambridge almost to the Midlands at the junction of the A14 and the A1M) I grew all the lettuce my family could eat in two bags of soil I purchased at the local home store. I just cut one side most of the way off and stuck the seeds in two straight lines about 6 inches apart, thinned the plants to about 3 inches and the just took enough leaves off to make the nightly salad with dinner. There was very little else needed. Covered it with clear plastic in the winter and it kept growing.
I wouldn’t worry about lettuce in WTO Britain that is for certain
Gerry
UK customs are based in Calais, not Dover. So any delay inspecting imports will choke up the harbour in Calais.
Dale
And they’re still telling us to stuff our faces with pasta and bread.
Except now it’s “healthy, whole-grain” pasta and bread.
Well, it works…those Ukrainians involved in the 1932-33 food experiment that Russian perpetrated all got skinny – my grandfather’s cousins lost a lot of weight, then they died but they lost the weight
Probably not a one weighs more than 60 lbs or 29 kilos excluding casket. Great weight loss program…burial
rick: I’m not as closely tied to what happened in Ukraine as you are, but I have learned about Stalin’s “health care plan” (a NOT funny sarcastic remark) and its result and cover-up. I have lived in the Netherlands and what was done to the country in WW II and Hitler’s starvation tactic was brought home to me more than just reading about it. I recently learned that the Dutch people are finding health consequences from that starvation so many decades ago. I think that I am not comfortable with people who “KNOW” what is “best” for the rest of us.
As a teenager I was friendly with a Dutch woman who was a street kid in Amsterdam during the enforced WW2 starvation. I asked her how she survived: “We stole food from the Germans”. And what did they do if they caught you? “They shot us” was the bland reply.
Her other accounts of the period aren’t fit for public exposure…
I remember reading that alos
however with time and thought
that was for a few years only and the people started well nourished for the most part, and then had the chance to re establish their nutrition levels(ok the ones that survived)
so take that claim of a brief time in late teen/midlife deprivation supposedly affecting future generations..
consider then the people in africa asia and elsewhere all over the plnet who for the majority are low nutrient low essential aminoacids vitamins etc
and their damage physiologically mentally and whatever else they can stick a label on.
thats been bad to worse for many many generations
does expalin why so many of those places never seem to get their act together or progress much.
Rick,
My grandfather wrote a book about it, with photographs (one of only two sets documenting the atrocity). Hr spent 16 years in Lubyanka for his troubles, but never caved to Stalin.
Mr. President, I’m beginning to smell a big fat commie Bloomberg.
What stuns me is any journal in the democratic world would actually publish that as not an April fools joke.
Why? These are the same people that advocate for the State termination of the elderly, the infirm, and the mentally “unfit.” The same people that are complicit in the genocide of more that 16 million Black children through abortion, and more than a million every year by preventing effective malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa. The same people that sign on to policies, and vote for politicians, that only thinly veil their intention to complete the Final Solution for the Jews.
Not surprising in the least.
Writing Observer
And the same people who happily watch as 12,000,000 people in developing nations who will die by 2050 from smoke inhalation because they are forced to burn wood and cow shit for cooking and heating. (WHO estimates) instead of having access to electricity.
The same people who crumble to Greenpeace and watch 1,000,000 people a year go blind then die from vitamin A deficiency because they won’t let developing nations benefit from golden rice.
Stalin and Mao were amateurs.
In the U.K. we already practise terminating the elderly – it was called the Liverpool Pathway and denied elderly patients unable to fend for themselves water or food. This barbaric treatment – imagine being desperate for water or something to eat and being deliberately denied it – was supposedly a “kind” way to “ease” the death of people judged to be beyond further help.
Finally this NAZI like programme was stopped, but variations are still advocated. We do have the occasional doctor who gives unexplained large doses of opiates to patients judged to be socially useless or deplorables perhaps. Currently one such case involves the questionable medication of 450 early deaths, but while the crown prosecution service jumps on and prosecutes people making lightly dubious non-pc remarks at work, it is studiously avoiding prosecution in this particular case. After all, it is only old people being allegedly “bumped off”. Just to be clear, giving patients large doses of opiates etc to ease terminal and terrible suffering is something that can be a real kindness, but only when it is done on a case by case basis with informed consent. My criticism is when this turns into a disposal policy.
Moderately Cross of East Anglia
In my mothers case it was a blessing.
more interesting is WHO funded it
and how many vegetarian docs they stacked the study with also
https://www.sott.net/article/405801-Do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do-Vegetarian-environmental-activist-tells-people-to-cut-meat-from-diet-to-save-environment-while-she-travels-world-in-private-jet
also to consider in this
theyre rabid about culling animal herds for the enviro/water aspect
they advocate nuts as the protien replacers
seems they have no idea of the time frame to grow nut trees?
or the water for them?
and peanuts need a fair whack of water also
most gazing land would be utterly useless for anything BUT grass land graziing
It is really from the Onion. Has to be a put on.
I learned EVERYTHING I needed to know about … “food distribution” … in Kindergarten
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen
Perhaps the intelligentsia at Lancet needs a primer.
Combine The Little Red Hen with the fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper as an introduction to food security.
It takes many years of education and multiple graduate degrees to become so stupid as to believe in Marxism. These fools are dumber than a bright 2nd-grader that grasps the concepts of both stories.
“restructuring of global commerce and food distribution”
Will most certainly address obesity, but I have some doubt that the other objectives would be successful. 🙂
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
Man walks into a shop in Moscow.
“Ah. I see you have no bread?” He says to the shopkeeper.
“No, Comrade, we have no fish. The shop with no bread is next door.” comes the reply.
But comrade come back in two years then we will have a fish.
brave new world
It’s true that the USSR under Stalin and China under Mao completely prevented an obesity epidemic, except of course among party leadership who very selflessly put themselves in the way of harm to protect their citizens.Venezuela is well on its way to doing the same.
I’d say these so-called “medical journals” are straying pretty far out of their lane these days. Sounds to me like Central Planning would like to put us all on their approved “human chow” pellets, rationed, and tracked by our implanted micro-chips and ear tags. The question is whether we’re stupid enough to let them do it!
No problem solving obesity. Just put Kim and Maduro in charge of your economy. They get fat while you starve.
Lancet manifesto
“Highest standards for medical science
The Lancet sets extremely high standards.
We select only the best research papers for their quality of work and the progression they bring”.
Lancet now infested with socialist AGW thieves . . .
Warren
I believe it was the Lancet that found 50% – 70% of all scientific studies could not be replicated.
Take your pick.
I can feel the Venezuelan synergy taking over the world. Got to love their logo.
The hammer and sickle part was my social commentary…
Vegan, green, organic agriculture advocates, airheads, but I repeat myself.
Tom Halla: One of the things I learned in high school general chemistry was that organic chemicals, including nylon and methane all contain hydrogen and carbon and that about half of the naturally occurring organics are poisonous. When Botox treatments first came out, people were interviewed on what they thought of it. One comment was, as nearly as I can quote, I won’t have anything in my body that’s not natural. I almost drove off the road laughing. After all, botulism toxin is irrefutable natural and organic.
I was a very proud dad a few years ago when my son was in high school and one if his teachers was waxing poetic about an organic lifestyle and only putting organic products into her body – he pipes up from the back of the class with “arsenic and hemlock are both natural and organic but only a fool eats them.” I didn’t mind being called to the office for that one at all.
They can be vegan, green, organic and self-righteous all they like. But since I read Biology 101, when “they” come for my bacon and beef they’re getting served all-natural, “organic” lead at high velocity.
When communism finally broke and collapsed, its acolytes spread out in all directions, like rats fleeing a sinking ship, seeking new access to their addictive passions for the levers of power and control over other people’s lives and money.
Look, they’re perfectly reasonable. In exchange for handing over absolute power to them, our overlords will allow us to live. Maybe.
Yes lets trust doctors.
One very highly respected doctor caused me 2 heart attacks, because he didn’t understand that cholesterol drugs are used for more than controlling cholesterol in the blood. My cholesterol is low, so he took me off them, despite the cardiologist who treated my first heart attack prescribing them permanently.
It was only after the third attack a cardiologist explained to me why I was on them. Pity my respected GP did not know his stuff.
If anything we already put too much trust in MDs.
Yeah doctors can really be trusted. A woman had her triplets vaccinated at the same time. Within hours all three developed autism. The family told the doctor that they wanted to hold off on further vaccinations until they figured out what was going on. His practice fired them. Jerks.
I was vaccinated. My brother was vaccinated. My sister was vaccinated. My wife was vaccinated. My brother in law was vaccinated. His wife was vaccinated. Their boys were vaccinated. Their 3 grandchildren were vaccinated. My sister’s two kids were vaccinated. Her grandchild was vaccinated. My extended family some 250 at the last Garrett family reunion were all vaccinated (every one had the large round small pox vaccine scar on their upper arms. sister’s ex husband has a brother who’s wife received no vaccinations and walked with crutches and braces thanks to polio. One case of autism in my family out of more than 300 and the only bad case of illness was due to no vaccinations. It is my daughter with autism but I would still vaccinate her all over again. Vaccines and Autism… not buying it
I will always be a proponent for vaccinations. When Small Pox/Polio/Measles/Mumps etc. comes around again, and one of them will, only those ant-vaxxer kids will get sick
When one of them comes around again . . . No need to wait.
Measles outbreak in Clark County, Washington State.
35 cases and counting. As of today, Jan. 28th.
and will they admit how many vaccinated kids got it?
whooping cough vax is damned near useless and the wild variant mutated
ditto measles
for the very few(and it IS very few) having severe issues from measles the ones having adverse events is higher
in 1st world with clean water and food rotovirus is low
but kids cop that vaccine anyway
and that ones admitted to have adverse events
especially in NON white races btw
who are the ones that may benefit, if it was safe
@ozspeaksup.
I live in the area and EVERY ONE who has gotten the measles was un-vaccinated. No vaccinated person yet has gotten it. Get off your government conspiracy kick.
I feel really sorry for the McDowell’s if there was some kind of problem with the vaccine, but whatever the vaccine did, exposure to the real disease would do far worse damage. There is no such thing as zero risk.
It is interesting that so many anti-vaxers are also warmunists. My daughter’s bff is a pediatrician. She did her internship in Portland OR. The anti-vaxers made her so crazy, she had to move to Chicago.
Pneumonia is worse than autism? Only if a person dies. I personally would rather be dead than autistic.
Your choice. Your problem.
It is not everyone’s concern, nor should it be everyone’s problem.
Citing one event out of millions is pointless. Especially when no-one has proven that vaccination caused that case of autism.
For all we know, the children were evaluated that day for autism that they had since birth.
Nor are activists known for honesty when presenting their ‘despair over these’ photos and anecdotes.
When I was young, my parents greatly feared I was mentally impaired. I wouldn’t speak nor respond to people talking.
After a couple of years worrying, my Mother finally asked the doctor when she had me there for a different medical reason.
It took the doctor a few minutes to determine that I was deaf, not impaired.
People base much on their interpretations from voice interactions with their children. A very difficult situation for children during their primary period to learn speech and social interaction.
I remember waiting in line with hundreds of children for the initial sugar cube infused with Salk serum for a polio vaccination.
Prior to that, just mentioning polio caused tension in everyone within present. Whispers quickly carried the dreaded word to everyone out of immediate hearing.
A few months after the sugar cube, I waited in line at the same location with similar crowds to receive the upper arm scratch polio vaccine.
Antri-vaccine is your personal choice.
It is fine with me if you prefer to take on the disease that scourged mankind for eternity.
Typhus, smallpox, mumps, measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis, herpes, rabies, rotavirus, polio, tetanus, pertussis, yellow fever, cholera, etc. etc., are all yours and for your progeny, if you desire.
Quite a few of these were known for drastically shortening average lifespans. Death was easily achieved.
Those that survived a number of these diseases carried physical damage for the rest of their lives.
During the 1800s and 1900s, pneumonia was a well known disease to the medical community. Doctors became very skilled at predicting when the patient was likely to die as patient lungs fill with fluid.
Antibiotics and vaccines have nearly eliminated pneumonia from Western Civilization dreaded disease list.
That is not the same as eliminating the disease itself!
I do disagree, that it is your right to provide pools where diseases can fester, persist and mutate into deadly diseases unhindered by vaccinations or antibiotics.
hmm so from 3 kids the chances of either mumps measles or rubella(rare even when i was a kid 50+yrs ago )as opposed to all 3 copping the same tainted “hotbatch” harming them all?
Ive had measles mumps chickenpox whooping cough, so did almost all my age cohort
word does get around when your classmates are seriously ill
never a word of such
ALL polio is in places where the waters fouled with crap due to no sanitary amenities.
and the Aus outbreaks were before people had running water inside OR flushing loos
ie the old longdrops and at best a tank/bucket to wash hands maybe.
the utter panic over a minor annoying 7day or so bug, like measles especially is farcical
That ” minor annoying 7day(sic) or so bug, like measles ” can kill the old and immune deficient….
Autism can’t even be diagnosed in that age.
Obviously a totally false story. You don’t develop autism within hours – how were they tested “within hours”? – and autism is very difficult to diagnose at vaccination age anyway.
Utter garbage scaring people into putting their children at risk of actual brain damage.
“Within hours all three developed autism.” ?
Yes, that is hilarious. Sad part is, intelligent people will still believe it..
Also, did they work for the doctor ?
“His practice fired them. Jerks.”
LOL
so consider the docs that swear they can diagnose adhd and similar and prescribe ritalin adderall and antidepressants for TWO yr olds
theyremainstream and accepted and growing.
I had a pup vaccinated for tetanus (cut foot)
within a week he lost sight in one eye, and developed a welt on his side that never regrew hair
within 2 weeks he developed neurological symptoms and became unable to jump up the step he could prior, unable to walk or run for more than brief attempts and only in a straight line
perfectly fit healthy pup at 12 weeks in need of special care for the rest of his life, and the only thing different was that vaccine
you could try the genetic excuse
from 12 siblings all the rest were fine
actually if the vaccine was as stated found to be faulty and recalled, then it IS possible for neurological damage to occur
meningococcal will do tha in hours if you survive it.
a babys blood brain barrier isnt even formed
until around 4 yrs old is very permeable
anything getting into the blood system which a vaccine is a direct route to….
unlike the normal inhaled or swallowed route for most pathogens which nature has a system to cope with, or at least limit
very often there are product recalls of ijectable drugs made in supposed GMP inspected and sterile approved pharma owned manufactories
one curent ne os for a product that has fine rubber particulates in it
common is glass fragments or like the heparin that killed many bad ingredients and QC was poor or non functional
the heparin ended up in many countries as one supplier onsold to many makers who process and relabelled it.
Autism is just overdiagnosed now. People with minor personality quirks are being called autistic. Half the kids I see whose parents call them autistic seem normal to me, just slightly poorly behaved. It’s $$$ for the psychiatrists. It will all come out in 20 years or so that it was a crock.
In the 80s I remember reading a book about a special ed teacher who took care of a little boy with autism which was a disease almost no one had ever heard of. He was profoundly disabled. You never saw anyone like that around and there was no anti vaxx movement, everyone got their shots all the time. Then they expanded the definition of autism, suddenly everyone was autistic. Nothing changed except these doctors made more money and made the parents and these children feel bad!
It is IMPOSSIBLE to develop autism symptoms that quickly from any source. It takes months or longer to even diagnose symptoms. This doesn’t even pass the smell test. If she indeed had a specialist that was qualified to diagnose autism she had to have set up the appointment at least weeks ahead of time with a suspicion of autism.
So the lady is telling everyone else not to vaccinate their children against polio, smallpox, measles, etc which KILL. It shows her morals that she would wish her children die a horrible death than to possibly develop a handicap.
I trust doctors a lot LESS than lawyers, and consult either only when absolutely necessary.
Hubris.
Experts of all stripes need a smack upside the head. Their prognostications are no better than those produced by a dart-throwing chimp. link If someone can’t predict what will happen, it is trivially obvious that such a person should not be prescribing anything. If a doctor were only correct 33% of the time, would you take the drugs she prescribed?
Anyone who wishes to prescribe anything, like the nation’s diet for instance, should have to pass a prediction test. Ideally, it should involve a hundred year testing period. 🙂 If, at the end of a hundred years, a large number of predictions were correct (just to remove the possibility of lucky guesses) we might consider the prescription.
Failed serial predictors should be exiled to an island from which they can’t broadcast any further bad predictions. Paul Ehrlich comes to mind. link
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
H.L. Mencken
” ….. or the urge to get positive cash flow into the bank account”
Every place in the world today where there is hunger, it’s direct cause is malfeasance on the part of the local government.
The idea that bad government can be solved by more government is an idea so dumb that only a leftist could come up with it.
“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
Milton Friedman
Sabine Kleinert certainly looks she could stand to get on the treadmill and cut back on her caloric intake. Like every good socialist, she doesn’t blame the individual, but rather a system and industry.
Then those doctors engage in some real shady science claims in order to claim modern agriculture to climate change to under-nutrition in the 3rd World.
They just spew a continuous chain for false assertions as if it were immutably true. Complete Junk science. Quackery medicine. They certainly need weak minds to accept their crap assertions.
not sure about now but pirorly the time spent on nutrition by docs in uni was around a couple of weeks at best. theyll tell you that supplements are useless
but then beri beri scurvy etc are all from nutritional lacks and they acknowledge that the B vitiamins and folates etc have use in depression and spina bifida babies.
when your info comes from the pharmas peddling their products only..
when babies are fed powderedchemicals from day one for many poor mites
any wonder we have so many ill people with gut bacteria that dont work and allergies etc.
And what did we learn from this video?
Well first, both obesity and starvation are due to climate change, (according to Sabine Kleinert, who apparently lives in an area where the climate change adds a few pounds).
And the good professors tell us the enemy is ‘climate change’ and the goal is ‘sustainability, (which sounds suspiciously like communism in disguise):
Professor Dietz: “We recognized that malnutrition included both obesity, and undernutrition, and both were associated with climate change as the result of agricultural production. So we looked at the intersection of undernutrition, obesity, and climate change and called this the global syndemic”. A syndemic are two or more pandemics, which interact in time and place and are driven by societal or economic factors. For example, meat production generates a lot of greenhouse gasses, and greenhouse gasses increase climate change and catastrophic weather events in the developing world which impairs agricultural production and contributes to undernutrition.”
Professor Swinburn: “We need a $1 Billiiion dollar fund to support community activation to demand policy action.” NO! NO! NO!
I ththought it was the camera which adds a few pounds.
Perhaps she had 10 cameras on her.
“Sustainability” is code for veganism. Raising MEAT livestock has been deemed … “unsustainable”. Make no mistake … this is one of the PRIMARY goals of these Lancet creeps … to FORCE everyone into veganism. Same with the Warmist crowd.
Tonight, I made a 12 ingredient salad topped with tender grilled flank steak done rare, and sliced thin with a teriyaki-sesame dressing. Thank you America! For making EVERY foodstuff available at any one of several local grocery stores. Personally, I prefer the locally-owned Diablo Foods, where I have to pay about 15% more for my groceries … which are so much higher quality than the local national chain stores. I have an ABUNDANCE of food here in N.CA. Thank you Capitalism! Thank you America! Thank you Agribusiness! Thank you Cattlemen! Thank you cage-free, roaming, local-sourced, fair-traded Poultry Caretakers! *16yo Catholic School smirk*.
If Lancet TOUCHES my food … there will be a RIOT that makes the yellow vests look like a Macron Support Rally.
I’m with Kenji!
The fund demand is laughable – give government money to lobby government to do what we want.
These people don’t even understand what they are saying, let alone how to solve complex global problems.
All the Politically Correct members of the Virtue Signaling Class will of course tumble over themselves to fall in line with Righteous Veganism. Therefore self-condemning to deficiency diseases that’ll render them infertile, immune-compromised and with shrunken brains, ensuring their early exit from the gene pool.
I’d call that a Win-Win . . . . /sarc
“and greenhouse gasses increase climate change and catastrophic weather events in the developing world which impairs agricultural production and contributes to undernutrition.”
All of these predictions are based on the unsubstantiated CAGW speculation. There is no evidence that greenhouse gases “increase” climate change or “catastrophic weather events” in the developing world, or anywhere else.
The scientists who did this study are seeing things that are not there. They are assuming things not in evidence, although, obviously, they think they are in evidence. When you build your foundation on sand, you eventually find out you made a mistake.
They lost it in the first segment- Sabine Kleinert says of business considerations “we have created powerful economic systems that encourage over consumption to the detriment of the individual….”. She is saying that individuals don’t have any responsibility for what they eat. Totally absurd. Why am I banging my head against the wall? She encouraged it with her myopic and power hungry approach to problems. The two male presenters were equally as blindered and stuck in their gibberish repetitions of the mantra talking points.
There is an epidemic of obesity, of sorts, mostly in the developed world but also in many developing countries where the more affluent sectors have access to more food and too many choices.
There are some people who have medical reasons for obesity- hormone problems, neurological problems, etc. But most people don’t. It’s simply eating a balanced diet of different foods and getting enough excercise.
In the US one of the main causes of the obesity epidemic seems to be related to government admonition to cut meat consumption, minimize meats, and base the diet on carbohydrates, particularly whole grains. That supposedly heart friendly diet was anything but.
Regarding the vaccines and the McDowell’s problems. They discovered that the lot of vaccine used on their children was contaminated. Regardless of any consent forms, the consent is for possible, rare, idiosyncractic rections to the vaccine. Informed consent does not cover defective products. Get a new lawyer. Despite the consent forms and time limits, this is a beautiful case for any on the ball social justice warrior attorney.
Almost universally, the left considers individuals to be helpless victims of their environment.
That’s why we need government (which incidentally is made up of individuals) to run our lives for us.
Oh great … where am I supposed to move to now?
More than a century ago my grandparents left the old country to get away from totalitarian control of their lives. Their descendents are not about to surrender their hard-won freedom and independence to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, Lancet or no Lancet. Just sayin.
Stop agriculture carbon emissions, and you most likely will solve the obesity problem, and malnutrition will lead to millions of deaths.
You are correct.
Stalin used this tactic in 1932 – 1933 to kill 3.3 to 7.5 million of his own citizens:
http://holodomorct.org/holodomor-information-links/ukrainian-famine-genocide/
From the people who brought you the latest measles outbreak!
The Lancet is clearly dominated by a pack of Oxford-trained communists.
The Lancet also publishes very good articles.
Joe d’Aleo and I co-authored the following paper on Excess Winter Mortality in 2015. We were about to publish it when the landmark Lancet study appeared, so we incorporated that excellent paper into ours. Our title, derived from the Lancet study, is
COLD WEATHER KILLS 20 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE AS HOT WEATHER
by Joseph d’Aleo and Allan MacRae, September 4, 2015
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
Globally, there are about 2 million Excess Winter Deaths per year – that is the number of deaths that occur in the four winter months (December through March in the NH) minus the number of deaths that occur in equivalent non-winter seasons. . About 100,000 Excess Winter Deaths occur annually in the USA, equivalent to about two-9-11’s per week for 17 weeks every year. Colder Canada typically experiences about 5000 to 10,000 Excess Winter Deaths per year. More than 50,000 Excess Winter Deaths occurred in England and Wales last winter (2017-2018) – an Excess Winter Death rate more than 2.5 times the per-capita average rate of the USA, and 2.5 to 5 times the per capita rate in Canada.
Even in warm climates like Thailand and Brazil, there is a significant Excess Winter Death rate, but it is typically lower than in colder countries.
The data suggests that Earth is significantly colder-than-optimum for human longevity. Other factors, such as energy pricing and the quality of housing insulation and heating systems are also important to reduce winter mortality.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/save-the-planet-half-earth-kim-stanley-robinson
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health.
Lancet. 2015; 386: 1973-2028
Guess who now has a seat at The Lancet? Christiana Figueres. Rockefeller Foundation is tagged on the two Guardian Articles and funded the EAT Study.
Naomi Oreskes Lewandowsky and fellow psychologist Lorraine Whitmarsh jointly author papers on how to engage people in carbon capture and storage, how to view the pause https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/123629-whitmarsh-lorraine. It seems like taxpayers employ most every “scientist” on the planet is engaged in studies which are entirely detrimental to the people who pay their wages. It is the most mind boggling assault on freedom that has ever raised its ugly head.
wasnt it the oxford med journal that admitted close to half/one third at least of the med research couldnt be replicated?
and thats not even touching dodgy stats like the statin claims
I wont take anything unless i can find an read the data on the trials and results first
i usually find the cures worse than my problem
Do be fair, some of them must be Cambridge trained, after all the famous five British spies all went there, & betrayed the UK to the Russians! 😉
In which we find out that experts in keeping us heathy, who save and extend the lives of millions, don’t hesitate to presume they also are just as qualified to direct a substantial fraction of the world economy.
See Russ Roberts’ short video on this exact topic: It’s a Wonderful Loaf
https://youtu.be/ljULutAUL7o
“experts in keeping us heathy”
[Citation needed.]
[citation as requested. 250k to 400k dead from medical mistakes. Mod]
Not only is medical malpractice a huge cause of death, but doctors have spent decades pushing fads like low-fat diets that have killed millions and ruined the health of many more.
(Oh, and don’t forget that some of the most prolific mass-murderers outside government have been doctors)
Frankly, the older I get, the more I despise doctors, and I put my relative good health down to the fact that I almost never go to one. I sure as heck wouldn’t put one in charge of my food.
https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx
“ I put my relative good health down to the fact that ”
I put your relative good health down to the fact that you are incredibly lucky.
ABC radio in Aus had an admission yesterday of approx 230K people harmed by prescribed meds per YEAR gp prescribed taken as directed
I agree with Mark
I was in the hospital system for near a year and they damn near killed me with a series of meds no washout between them and side effects like nearly going blind , reported and ignored by my “caring” traineee specialist, who refused to even READ the package insert warning of exactly that.
nurses with the wrong injections who got very upset at my Non compliance when i refusd to allow it to be given.
god help those who are too ill or ignorant/trusting to read check and make a decision
If at first you don’t succeed with a pandemic ramp it up to a Syndemic.
Throw a tofu patty on the solar barbie while paying more food and plant food taxes for the wise Green overlords to redistribute as they see fit.
Listen to the double speak “The Global Syndemic can begin at the community level, where the systems under local control can be collectively reoriented to achieve better health and environmental outcomes. Nonetheless, community initiatives will need to be reinforced by a regulatory and policy framework, as well as economic incentives and disincentives”, In other words we will have to put a gun to the Heads of the ignorant masses and make them comply.
I can’t believe i didn’t think of that, more government in our life…I mean what could possibly go wrong? Having an unaccountable government controlling everything, even what and how much we eat. How great would that be ! Anyone have Venezuela’s phone number? I’d like a second opinion. Big government never screws things up after all.
Shaq walks up to the counter to order 4 Big Macs. The automated attendant requires him to place his finger into a laser sensor that reads his levels of glucose, cholesterol and so forth.
“Mr O’Neal, you do not qualify for any real meat products, would you like a soy Big Mac instead?”
I’m thinking the robot places the order and they serve him tofu burgers, take his money and then explain why and send him to government weight watchers to monitor his progress.
Doctors have done such a wonderful job of managing their recommendations of what we eat and the results – NOT! They recommended 50 years ago that we cut down on fat and increase grain intake. Result, we have an epidemic of obesity and the resulting plethora of health problems. And NOW we are supposed to trust their assurances that they know best – about ANYTHING?
distribution? why not production too? good luck with that.