Hi,
A CONTROVERSY in the last several months really needs some COUNTERPOINT. IT IS ECONOMIC IN ITS DESIRE TO CHANGE THE OUTLOOK AND HABITS OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN. The concern is that not only has the media landed on it but health and education as well. BE AWARE THAT THESE AGENCIES ARE NOT COMPLETELY WRONG BUT THEY'RE NOT COMPLETELY RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!AND IN THIS CASE-CHILDREN ARE AT STAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
The hoop-la is about the current epidemic of DIABETES. It is a growing concern for HEALTH EXPERTS AND THE NEW HEALTH CARE PROGRAM. THEY ARE SEEING AN EPIDEMIC IN OUR NATION'S CHILDREN. SOUNDS SCARY ........let's look at some facts. Diabetes has been around for thousands of years and the HEALTH RESEARCHERS HAVE NOT FOUND A CURE OR EVEN A REAL REASON FOR IT TO TAKE OVER PEOPLE'S BODIES. WHAT THEY HAVE IS THEORIES BASED ON research AND MEDICINE TO TREAT THE DISEASE. One of the constants is: people who are overweight OFTEN HAVE DIABETES. However, IT ALSO ATTACKS SLIM FOLKS. THE SLIM, HOWEVER, OFTEN DIE EARLIER WITH more COMPLICATIONS. IT HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN THAT DIABETES IS CAUSED BY OVERWEIGHT but it certainly predisposes folks for it!!!!!!!And although some people are helped to get off diabetes medication by diet alone that is not true for all. IT IS A VERY COMPLICATED and ancient DISEASE that modern medicine can't seem to cure.
Some interesting insights into childhood obesity may be in our current mores. In the 1930s EVERYONE WAS TOLD THAT FOR CHILDREN TO GROW STRONG AND HEALTHY THEY MUST BE GIVEN LOTS OF HEALTHY FOOD. Evidently, the POWERS THAT BE IN THIS COUNTRY are concerned that CITIZENS took that advice too LITERALLY and are raising a nation of FAT PEOPLE!!!!!!! Yeah, there's a lot of what is called junk food. But PLU.....EEEEZE. GIVE THE KIDS A BREAK! Do you want them healthy????????OR DO YOU WANT THEM THIN????????? THEY GROW BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS AND ARE HUNGRY MOST OF THE TIME SO THEY INDULGE.
Let the powers that be SCOLD that THE FOOD SHOULD BE MORE NUTRITIOUS. EAT A GOOD BREAKFAST, NOT RAUNCHY SNACKS. EAT MEALS THAT SUPPORT HEALTHY GROWTH. Those same naggers SHOULD NOT CONCENTRATE ON CALLING KIDS FAT....TALK ABOUT FAT KIDS AND YOU FEED THE SCHOOL BULLIES AMMUNITION!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY, REMEMBER SCHOOL AND BULLIES?????????
HAS HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND MEDIA LOST PERSPECTIVE?????? SO IMMERSED IN THEIR OWN PRECIOUS THEORIES and LOVE OF POWER THAT THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT A KID FEELS LIKE WHEN HEAPED WITH ADULT RIDICULE AND BULLIED BY KIDS FOR BEING "DIFFERENT"?????
THIS NEW PRESSURE IS. .....IRRESPONSIBLE.......WHILE BEING CALLED RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!!!
No one seems to have any idea why overweight and diabetes is becoming more of a problem in children other than diet AND inactivity. Increased activity appears to achieves a small measure of success. It increases overall health but slimness is not often a consistent result. BUT BECAUSE THE BLAME CAN BE PLACED ON THE PARTICIPANTS AND SINCE AMERICANS CARRY SO MUCH UNNECESSARY GUILT SO THEY ACCEPT THE BLAME.
If the HEALTH INDUSTRY (AND I RIGHTLY CALL IT AN INDUSTRY) HAD ANY IDEA HOW TO MAKE DIETS CONSISTENT AND KEEP WEIGHT DOWN, THEY WOULD HAVE SOLD IT IN PLACE OF HOT CAKES!!!!! FOR MILLIONS. ALL THEY'VE EVER PROFESSED ARE THEORIES!!!!!!!!THAT ONLY WORKS FOR A TIME UNLESS THE DIETER LIVES LIKE A MONK FOREVER. Give the same food to a thin person and a fat person over A period of time and one will lose weight and one will gain weight. Guess which????????? No theory touches that FACTOR!!!!!!!
And now they have turned their attention to using POOR theories on helpless and hapless children (AND PROBABLY TO ASSIST IN CONDUCTING A STUDY)!!!!!!!
OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT A FEW OF THE MEDICAL COMMUNITIES' FORMER THEORIES about children. Early 1920S to about l960S (don't hold me to exact dates) the theory was that children should be
BOTTLE FED AND NOT BREAST FED. BREAST FEEDING WAS CONSIDERED TO HAVE POOR NUTRITIONAL VALUE PARTICULARLY in the POOR and did not provide WHAT WAS NEEDED for a growing child.
USE FORMULA IT WAS ORDERED SO THAT YOUR CHILDREN GROW HEALTHY AND STRONG!!!!!OKAY!!!
Not THAT many FAT CHILDREN produced on formula and they grew HEALTHY AND STRONG!!!!!!!!!GOOD???????????FOR AWHILE!!!
Then the health EXPERTS got another wild hair up THEIR collective posteriors. NOW THAT WE HAVE THEM ALL HEALTHY AND STRONG AND GROWN, LET'S have these NEW mothers go BACK TO NURSING THEIR YOUNG. It's natural. It's cheap. AND THE STUDIES PROVE (By the way in case you haven't noticed there are studies that prove almost anything) THAT IT IS BETTER FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!
HEY, NOW WE'VE GOT CHILDREN THE EXPERTS ARE CALLING FAT!!!!!CO-INCIDENCE? YEAH RIGHT!!!!!!! HEALTH EXPERTS ARE NEVER WRONG!!!!!!!! Are the kids healthy and strong??????? GUESS NOT-- SINCE FAT PEOPLE "MUST BE" UNHEALTHY!!!!!! THE kids may HAVE DIABETES OR DOES DIABETES HAVE THEM??????? DO A STUDY--IT'LL PROVE OUT EITHER WAY!!!!!!!
THIS BLOGGER sees dichotomies all over the landscape on HEALTH SPAWNED ISSUES AND PARTICULARLY THIS ONE.
The reader will begin to notice as time moves on and the Obama health plan becomes too COSTLY (if it is not repealed) that certain tests, procedures or treatments will be declared either unnecessary, dangerous, REDUNDANT, or better treated in another way!!!!!!These RULES will come from studies made to support the evidence. NONE of those studies will mention that it is cost that is driving the change UNLESS in small type. THE HEALTH INDUSTRY WILL GO ALONG WITH IT AND SUPPORT THE IDEAS BECAUSE THEIR DOLLARS will COME FROM THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DEMANDING THE CHANGES.
WE HAVE REACHED A POINT IN OUR SOCIETY that COMMON SENSE HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH STATISTICS, STUDIES, TESTS, THEORIES, AND "OVERVIEWS" ETC. ETC. AND THESE ARE ALL PART AND PARCEL OF ECONOMICS!!!!!!!! THESE FACTORS MAKE MONEY FOR SOMEONE SOMEWHERE!!!!!!!! BEWARE THE LOSS OF COMMON SENSE. THERE IS NO INTELLECT TO REPLACE IT TAUGHT IN ANY UNIVERSITY. It is an essential ingredient in life and particularly in raising one's child.
There are other factors that differ in our current society that THE AFOREMENTIONED STUDIES often do not take into account. New mothers come from varying backgrounds that MIGHT include heavy ALCOHOLIC intake, heavy DRUG use, STRINGENT (NEAR BULIMIC) diets that take weight down to dangerous levels, heavy and OBSESSIVE-EMOTIONAL eating PLUS dozens of other abuses that cause bodily changes EVEN IF ONLY PRIOR to pregnancy. HOW MUCH DOES ALL THIS AFFECT THE BABY????????????? WHAT CHANGES IN CHEMISTRY EXIST??????? WHAT DIFFERENCES happen IN the baby's INTAKE and ABILITY TO UTILIZE AND DIGEST FOODS????? WHAT CHANGES IN THE MOTHER'S MILK??????????? SHOULDN'T THE INDUSTRY BE EXPLORING ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS AND MANY THIS BLOGGER HASN'T THOUGHT ABOUT BEFORE RAILING at CHILDREN FOR BEING FAT!!!!!!!!!
And in many ways aren't many of those conditions MUCH THE SAME as the ones in the thirties when FORMULA was BOO NED FOR HEALTHY BABIES AND FUTURE CHILDREN?? Starving for dieting to achieve model-like thinness isn't much different from starving from poverty. Doesn't poverty often include the abuse of drink and drugs??????? THINK hard BEFORE ACTING ON a THEORY whether supported by well-known health agencies, media or education.
THESE STUDIES ARE DONE BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARMED WITH CREDENTIALS AND MEANING-WELL THAT MAKE THEIR VIEWS SOUND RATIONAL. BUT..... ARE THEY?????? YOU HAVE TO BE THE JUDGE. DON'T CONDEMN YOUR OVERWEIGHT CHILD TO A LIFE OF ABUSE AND TORMENT BUT DEMAND COMPLETE INFORMATION NOT THEORY.
THIN IS NOT ALWAYS HEALTHIER. Americans come from all sorts of backgrounds. Italians and Spanish often come from a background of heavier, sturdy folks who worked in the fields in past centuries. The English background often sports lean frames although country portly is not unusual, the same as the Germans, Poles and Russians. Asians are often slim but Buddha is often portrayed as portly as is Hotai. In the not too distant past, being overweight denoted wealth which took health and industry.
There are genes that we pass on to children. THERE IS STILL MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT GENES AND THEIR EFFECTS. PASSING ALONG characteristics and traits INCLUDES BODY MASS.
COMMON SENSE--PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAD IT IN SPADES because they had little use for untested theories, OR WHAT THEY CALLED statistics, STATISTICS AND damned statistics. Everyone has SOME COMMON SENSE MAYBE buried beneath a mound of theories but it's there!!!Meanwhile GIVE THE KIDS A BOOST NOT A KICK IN THEIR SO-CALLED "FAT" DERRIERES!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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