Obesity being regulated by the Government?

This continuation of government being the only force to fight obesity continues to grow as a nightmare on citizens while the government justifies their goals by federally-funded science studies that are nothing more than fast-food junk.

Jeff Stier, the head of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, has published another statement refuting the “junk” study that is being used to give Big Brother another reason to interfere and issue scare tactics to “weigh” in on the obesity epidemic in this country.   More activists and government officials continue to push more tax proposals and restrictions on food advertising to ban bake sales in schools such as the one that became law in Massachusetts.  

This problem has so many factors.  While we know that corrupt and imaginary study data is constantly being printed and published, the fact remains that our own eyes see what an obese society and country we have become.  Why has this happened?

Because we no longer do for ourselves.  We no longer have to physically do our chores.  We no longer plant our own gardens and tend to our crops and herds to provide food for our families.  We no longer clean our houses or our yards without technological tools.  We no longer send our children to play outside to run, jump, climb trees, or roller skate down the sidewalks.  Children and grandchildren are becoming vidiots and deaf ones at that.  Our world seems to evolve around the all-mighty videography to watch and play.  We no longer do any physical labor that produced products for our country to export or sell because technology has replaced those jobs and skills.

I could go on and on because the technology replacement since the 60s has slowly but surely replaced physical activity and labor with automation and electronic gadgetry.   But what this laziness that we have accepted by virtue of technology has fueled the big governmental plan to instruct us what to do, what to eat, how to live, where to go, what to read, and most of all, what we are not allowed to do in the name of safety.   This is like sorcerers magic under the political cape in a slight of hand and mouth to make us believers that their illusion is perfect for the “good of the people” and because it must be true it is good for all.  Really????

While there have been a few arguably good program ideas presented and written that address the growing obesity problem, until people realize that they are being conditioned into believing that the only solution is one that comes from the government, then the battle will be lost.   The oxymoron to this entire issue is; so many assisted citizens believe that they can continue to be belligerent and voice their irrefutable opinions, then why are they the easiest to be led down a new path of lifestyle decisions.    Once again, we are being molded and coddled to stop thinking for ourselves and to accept what government has deemed is the best solution.   If we do not begin to question the “studies” that are used to write headlines and law, then we will become the propaganda puppets who will succumb to anything we are told.  

Arvene Kilby/ May 15, 2012