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There has been another spate of reports on the ‘obesity crisis’ this week. The BBC has likened the ‘epidemic’ to climate change. It said:
"Alan Johnson [the health secretary] said the magnitude of the problem was becoming clear for the first time and "it is in everybody's interest to turn things round … Details have emerged of a government study which says half the population could be obese within 25 years….Ministers are drawing up a long-term action plan to tackle obesity.”
This is quite frightening. Not because the obesity rates have risen so high (which translated into rational language means that the overeating rates have risen), but because I and my food philosophers seem to be the only people in the country who realise that the CAUSE of the problem is the very advice that the government ministers are planning to use to combat it!
What’s most frightening about this is that the BBC report also says:
“Dr Colin Waine - who chairs the National Obesity Forum - said that in terms of its impact on society, the health threat posed by obesity "will hit us much earlier than climate change". He added: "We are now in a situation where levels of childhood obesity will lead to the first cut in life expectancy for 200 years. These children are likely to die before their parents."
I’m hoping that this will be a prediction that falls flat on its face. With some luck and some effort at spreading the word this outcome could be changed.
I’m hoping that eventually the FP message will reach the wider population and, maybe, as is the usual with revolutionary thought, I’ll be dead before it has any effect, but at least I’m slowly getting the word out there and making a difference to as many lives as I can day-by-day, one at a time.
One of my course members described The Food Philosophy as a revolution and I felt proud when she said it – this was a woman who had been stuck in the diet trap for most of her life and who had only managed to dig herself deeper and deeper into overeating, until she found FP and now she’s free.
My aim is to free everybody no matter how long it takes. These children here, the ones described by Dr Colin Waine, will hopefully have a real and decent solution to turn to by the time things get too bad for them.
One day, as was also suggested by a school teacher who did the course, maybe The Food Philosophy will be taught in schools?
I hope so. The future looks pretty bleak without it.
I was thinking something similar when I heard this news. There's some light on the horizon too though don't you think? Like studies that show that eating low fat food makes children fatter or that letting children have free access to food generally leads them to making healthier choices. (Maybe I'm feeling optimistic today).