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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What could possibly go wrong with the government seizing control of food production and distribution for the public good?
I can solve both the coal use and obesity problems easily. Each month everyone must weigh in at your local office of the Department of Weight Control. Those overweight are assigned time at the local chopping station where they chop wood to burn the designated amount of calories in accordance with the Dept charts in order to facilitate weight loss. The chopped wood is then burned in the government burn stations to produce steam to drive the generators for local electricity. Those who continue to stay overweight are charged a “food tax” so they buy less food until they achieve the prescribed weight for their height. Only skinny people will be allowed to run the program. See, so easy a caveman could do it.
When they’ve got you by the stomach your heart and mind will follow.
Everyone I know who believes in organic over processed and brags about how much good, pure, clean food they eat is fatter than I am. Anecdata, I know, but I find it funny. I’m too polite to say it to their face, of course, but I find it really funny!
For over thirty years in my physical prime, I was a devout physical fitness enthusiast and fitness/dance instructor. I continue to focus on this with lesser intensity, of course, but still with a great deal of conscientious effort. Point being: I am all for addressing the obesity issue, but NOT by conflating it with climate change and some other broad fix-the-world philosophy that mirrors the climate-change manifesto.
As long as people are allowed to believe that there are no standards of self discipline, no differences between individual-bodies/sexes/mental-dispositions, no deep accountability for their actions, no physical standards, no categorization of goals, etc., and as long as social customs and laws continue to support all this in a politically-correct-timid-of-criticism mentality that makes little allowance to nurture such things, then obesity will prevail and worsen.
From the people who instigated the obesity epidemic by their own food guide!!! Incompetent morons.
I’ve found that Doctors and “Scientists” are among the worst offenders for the progressive impulse to control others. Happy to call for totalitarian solutions to their pet problems, fail to see the ramifications. Or they do and imagine they’ll be in the glorious tower.
It is the very doctors themselves who cause conditions like obesity themselves! And they want total control of our food supply?
OK. So what causes obesity? You could be forgiven for believing it was caused by people eating to many calories. Indeed that is the meme sold to us daily throughout the media. In fact this is 95+% a known and proven lie. Obesity is not caused in general by over indulgence but by metabolism reduction, itself caused by unsaturated fat consumption.
But are not unsaturated fats good for you?
In the natural state (the cis-isomer form) yes, but in practice almost all vegetable oils are passed through hydrogenation plants these days. This does NOT mean almost all vegetable oils are hydrogenated. Not at all. This is because a few years ago, and the trick was first tried out in the UK, they simply turned off the hydrogen! It is NOT hydrogenation as a chemical reaction that produces trans-isomer form oils but the hydrogenation plants themselves. The result has been a significant increase in the trans-fat content of vegetable oils.
But surely the trans fat content of vegetable oils is quite low now?
1) There should be zero trans fat content in vegetable oils.
2) Maybe the FDA simply changed the definition of what a trans fat is from:
a) A fat molecule with a single trans bond anywhere in its make up to:
b) A fat molecule in which all the unsaturated bonds are of the trans isomer form.
This way they do not have to lie. Instead they simply deceive.
Remember when Obama said he would ban trans fat?
At the time I said he would not do that, instead he would ban hydrogenation. I was bang on. A couple of days later he reversed course and said he would ban hydrogenation. This has the effect of increasing the trans fat content of the oils when the hydrogenation plants are still in use. In the UK the hydrogenation plant are all still running 24/7 flat out I guess this is the same in the US.
So what is the problem with trans-isomer form oils?
Obesity apart they cause:
All cardio vascular disease.
All type 2 diabetes.
All Alzheimers.
All microvascular dementia….
and about another 35 conditions.
In the UK the doctors are heavily promoting canola (rapeseed) oil at the moment. This is part of a plan to tripple the incidence of Alzheimers in the population. Are they doing the same thing in the States?
In the UK every year more people die of trans fat conditions than anything else. Not only does the medical industry profit greatly from it but the governments balance sheets is significantly improved. Think reduced annuity payouts/ state pensions (UK) etc..
The government worked with Big Pharma to allow this genocide to take place. The definition of fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. It can be described as globalism. The article is simply about the desire of TPTB to convert globalism (sovereign states + Big Pharma) to Globalism with the capital ‘G’ signifying world government and thus Global Fascism.
While Globalism is sold to the left as communism, it is in reality fascism.
This is the plan, watch out!!!
I do not ask you to believe this, I ask you to check out the scientific literature AND/OR check what I say with an infrared spectrophotometer.
The UK and USA are under intense traitorous attacks by those who pretend otherwise. Your liberties and your lives and the lives of your children are fully at stake.
ACT. FIND OUT, DO NOT BE DECEIVED.