All

Actually if you read the bio-demographer Stephen J Olshansky and others article
in NEJM (2005:352;11)I would argue that interventions to tackle obesity
directly is as just as pressing as policies tackling income inequality which
would probably have a slower less indirect effects (on obesity). His
projections suggest that deaths from obesity and related causes will cause, for
the first time, this US generations lives to be shorter than their parents.
That's 10-30 years time folks! Though income inequality is one cause of that
projection it is not the only one...changes in western culture, industry and
environment are just as important!


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Dr Steven Cummins
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Quoting Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]>:

> While America's children have poverty rates, infant mortality rates, and
> child injury mortality rates that lead the developed world, TIME spends
> hundreds and hundreds of words on FAT. I sent a letter to TIME editor...
> about 40% of Americans at the bottom controlling 0.3% of its wealth...as
> being a slightly more important health issue than FAT. - dr
>
>
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174679,00.html
>
> ------------------------------
> The Politics of Fat
> Experts say our expanding girth is killing us and costing the health-care
> system billions. But is this a problem government can solve? Or should? The
> debate grows as we do
> By KAREN TUMULTY
>
> These are fat times in politics. Literally. Nearly 400 obesity-related
> bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country last
> year--more than double the number in 2003. A quarter of them were passed
> into law, up from only 12% two years before. In Washington the word obesity
> appears in 56 bills introduced during the current Congress; this, the Wall
> Street Journal points out, is fast catching up with the number containing
> the word gun. Surgeon General Richard Carmona says obesity is a greater
> threat than terrorism. Some public-health advocates have begun urging the
> government to put a warning label on soft drinks; others are calling for a
> "fat tax" on fast food....SNIP
>
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