Whatever you do, don't call an obese person obese. It just upsets them. Unless it's an obese child who isn't, then you can be cruel to be kind in the genocide of our young. Tales of government mandated health care and fight against childhood obesity, doomed to fail.
But first
My Numbers for Today:
- Fasting Blood Glucose Level: 101 mg/dl. Same as yesterday. A silly mg/dl over the preferred fasting level.
- Weight: 188 lbs.
- Exercise: 45 minute ride in some pleasantly cool air this morning.
- Mood: 7.0 Weekend insight.
The Menu:
- Breakfast: The usual morning fruit medley and oatmeal and raisins.
- Lunch: Same as yesterday. Hummus and veggie sandwich with my interpretation of Greek tzatziki sauce. That means I don't remember quite what I made it out of, other then it had yogurt and cucumbers in it. Hey throw in some salt and pepper and it's all good.
- Dinner: Pizza and salad, the Thursday night usual.
- Snacks. An orange.
Health workers in England are being asked to not call obese patients as obese. It may hurt their feelings and never mind obese is a legitimate medical term.So how do you be honest with an obese person when they need to understand they are too fat and have to lose weight? I have no clue. Somehow calling someone thin-challenged doesn't quite convey the seriousness of the problem. What is a good word to describe the person sitting in this chair? I have no idea.
England, like the USA and a lot of the rest of the world, is getting fatter. Significant numbers of its population, young and old, are becoming obese and becoming sick because of it. The cost of treating type 2 diabetes alone is threatening to bankrupt England's National Health Service (NHS), so it's understandable that something has to be done about it.
One approach it to reach the young. They are also easier to intimidate and bully if you work in a government agency like the NHS. The little guy pictured here is considered obese by the government. This active, healthy 40 lb four year old is unhealthy and obese? Talk about the death of common sense.
His story, and other kids like him and the outraged parents of the kids, is here. Maybe this is problem best left to the parents to handle? I think so.
To look on the bright side, the health worker hearts maybe in the right place, if not their brains. That's not a very bright side, is it?
That brings me to these next two articles calling for government intervention to manage, control and prevent diabetes. One is from Australia, the other from the USA. I understand the deleterious effects type 2 diabetes can have on individuals. I understand the need for better diet and exercise among the young and old alike. If I can change and get better, so can just about anyone else.
Should the government insist on someone getting gastric bypass surgery? I don't think so.
Genocide on our children as Dr Hyman? Giving a kid a Coke and Twinkie may be poor parenting if done often, but calling it genocide is being absurdly over dramatic. There is no conspiracy for businesses to kill their own customers. That is not how the world works, or legitimate businesses for that matter.
The loss of liberty being so casually mentioned here is a greater problem than any ailment a meddlesome government wishes to fix. Giving up the basic freedom to live your life for a few programs that will in all likelihood will fail is simply a bad deal. Top down, centralized planning's record of failure is 100%. This is what is being promoted here.
Man, talk about the law of unintended consequences. Bastiat would have a field day here.
I trust people to operate in their own best interests. When getting fat is no longer in your own best interest, you will lose weight. This rise in obesity and diabetes cannot go on forever and it's won't. People will change, particularly if the have the freedom to change.
Sheesh, I started to do this blog for fun. This is not fun. Government takeovers are never fun, just bad.
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