Obesity Issues Problem Number 1
I have always believed that before addressing an issue the first question to ask is
"Is this a problem that we should be dealing with?"
Playing devil's advocate to a degree, consider the following questions:
1) Is obesity a health problem in itself? Does obese equal unhealthy?
2) Do we as a party founded on civil/human rights issues have a mandate to be telling people that they shouldn't be obese?
Trying to establish if this is an issue that the Internet Party wants to address, before we start building any policy around it?
Troy Haronga Fri 8 Aug 2014 12:02PM
My opinion is, Obesity is created by poor education on nutrition values of what's in our food. For example Flour is a large ingredent used in many foods, it absolutely no benefits apart from being full and taking big dumps, On a smaller fiber scale, the fibers in the wheat contains no goodness for the body to harvest, Therefore you get tired when eating lots of it because you burn more energy digesting it than getting out of it. People buy bread because its affordable and tastes good. What makes it taste good? (Sugar). Sugar is another toxin to the body which also causes weight gain and health problems. Bread is high in fibre (Fibre makes poop, That's all it does) Majority shows that poor people are the ones who eat allot more bread and noodles in their diet because that's all they can afford.
Another value to look at is the huge amount of fast food chains that are popping up all over the place. We need to implement increase of tax for these fast food chains and reduce tax on fruits and veggies which are the main source for a healthy living. This will also reduce government spending on doctors bills because people are healthy. Make fast food chains a luxury food. Also higher tax on fizzy drinks.
Google wheat belly.
White Wheat aka Bleached flour = Glue with no benefits apart from fullness and fibre
Sugar = Toxin also destroys the teeth enamel
Colin England Sat 9 Aug 2014 12:38AM
1) Is obesity a health problem in itself? Does obese equal unhealthy?
Being of large size doesn't automatically mean being obese.Quite a few large people who are obese when measured via the BMI are actually healthy and are getting both good exercise and diet. This is a rather large problem with the BMI measure of obesity.
2) Do we as a party founded on civil/human rights issues have a mandate to be telling people that they shouldn’t be obese?
It's not us as a Party that will be telling people that they shouldn't be obese but us as a society that's covering their medical bills*. This puts some responsibility upon people to maintain their health as well as possible. Of course, that means that we, as a society, need to ensure that everyone has access to the services necessary to maintain their health.
- I will never advocate for a private health system because a) It costs more than a public health system, b) prices health services out of the range of the most vulnerable and c) even having health insurance doesn't guarantee that you'll actually receive the necessary services (See Sicko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko))
Pukeko · Tue 5 Aug 2014 5:37AM
My research indicates that a nutritious diet which includes vegetables, protein, and fat will keep people full for longer and can be slowly converted to energy as needed.
On the other hand the high carb grain and sweet sugar products flood our blood with glucose, which needs to be rapidly converted to fat via a huge insulin swing, and then when its gone you are left feeling starving again a couple of hours later.