You dont think that obesity and diabetes is on increase, with almost certainty that its due to our 'third world' diet?
I'd be willing to bet anorexia has risen too.
Well, I work it out roughly like this, I've been to a doctor once in the last 20 years. This suggests that I've not been that unhealthy. My Dad has been once in the last 40 years or so.
Prior to that, bar when I was a baby, I haven't been prodded, weighed or measured since.
So what do they know about which illnesses my Dad or I have or even how much we weigh or how tall we are? If it matters he is, and has always been significantly heavier than I am.
3 days a week I walk my son to school, I note his school is full of kids of various shapes, tall, short, a few large, plenty skinny. No different to 3 decades ago when I went when there were some huge kids but most of us weren't. Same story with the other parents. Some might say "Ah, but these are primary school kids"?
Fair enough but 3 days a week we take him canoing, where, as well as his age group I see a wide range of people from 8 to 80. Again, some are large, some are skinny, with everything in between. Now of course, you're gonna say "But that's because the people you see all exercise and keep fit"
Well yes, but that's precisely the point....you can't look at bunch of ill people - and that's the group that doctors see - and deduce that we're all getting fat and ill and then start banning chips. We all used to die 30 years earlier too - what did they expect to happen to the number of ill and old people as a result of people still being alive?
I saw an advert clip for that "doctors in the street" with the doctor claiming that a huge number [I can't remember exactly] of people in whatever city they were in must have type 2 diabetes and be blissfully unaware of it. Because he says so? What's the opposite of the placebo effect? "You're all fat and ugly, but you're not going to die, you can suffer for years on our meds...MUHAHAHAHA are you scared yet? If not our next bulletin is about dangerous Muslims in your area!"
From that I deduce that not only do they really not have the first clue what, if anything people like I have or don't have, they are actually making statistics up about my health to support their agenda. In fact, the worst thing about it is, I bet I'm more unusual because I'm not registered with a doctor, whereas I suspect most people who never have to visit a doctor, even for decades, are still registered and that group will forms a chunk of the £100k+ a year the average useless-for-any-decent-medical-job GP screws from his practice.
Problem is, they are solving nothing. Once you get rid of whatever makes the top of the list, something else will become the top instead. People don't stop becoming ill, they just get something else.
I will become ill with something eventually, as will my Dad - at which point I fully expect some patronising buffoon addicted to nitrous oxide, pain meds and cough mixture to wail at me for daring to do whatever they've decide is the new morally wrong cause of illness "Oh, you're not still having sex are you? Sheesh...don't you read the papers? I don't think you should be treated until you stop..."
As for drinking, I disagree with you that they are doing nothing. I think it's just earlier in the process than smoking is.
It's the same with switching off lights and saving power, we had signs in our schools 30 years ago saying to switch of lights and don't smoke. Now, like smoking, things are on a much bigger scale for climate change and set to get even more so. Drinking and diet are just catching up.
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