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On Oct 9, 4:28*pm, Dan L wrote:
Bill who putters wrote:
Seems the obesity issue is being focused on as a sloth issue. *I'm not
so sure.
* Consider Taubes good Calories and bad calories book.
*Then that Spanish study *dealing with DDE and obesity how it affects
our food.
*Then there is the Mayo clinics Thyroid issues *
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/thy...odules/DS00491
* There are other issues I'd guess. *Care *to add or detract. *How the
Thyroid helps us handle carbs *I'd guess is of great importance.
I will agree with you that obesity is not a sloth issue. It is a strong
desire to eat! Does hormones have an effect on weight, I would say yes,
However, the food industry has also made the foods tastier and more
convenient and tastier also tends towards high salt, sweet and high fat
content.
However, in my case, I do have a thyroid problem. When I was younger,
like twelve years old, my T-Cells were sky high. I had a strong desire
for salt, I could eat the stuff by the teaspoon and say yum! I was also
thin then. In my thirties i was running five miles four times a week and
in great shape. It was a secondary thyroid problem due to hypo-pituitary
problem. The pituitary controls the thyroid. Medication tends too keep
things in check. I have been taking hormone medication since the age of
thirteen. Now in my old age the thyroid has played out and now I take
thyroid medication. Now I am fat, old and decrepit, foods now taste too
salty, however I still have my hair 
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Enjoy Life... Dan L *(Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
Here is what I can't figure out.......................How is it that
America has the highest rate of obesity and the highest rate of hunger
at the same time?
Thatıs because the current farm bill helps commodity farmers by cutting
them a check based on how many bushels they can grow, rather than, say,
by supporting prices and limiting production, as farm bills once did.
The result? A food system awash in added sugars (derived from corn) and
added fats (derived mainly from soy), as well as dirt-cheap meat and
milk (derived from both). By comparison, the farm bill does almost
nothing to support farmers growing fresh produce. A result of these
policy choices is on stark display in your supermarket, where the real
price of fruits and vegetables between 1985 and 2000 increased by nearly
40 percent while the real price of soft drinks (a k a liquid corn)
declined by 23 percent. The reason the least healthful calories in the
supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones the farm bill
encourages farmers to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html
I won't even go in to my thyroid problems of 25 years
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
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