James Hill, co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry... suggests that people's failure to get trimmer can be attributed in large part to our narrow, food-only approach. "We focus too much on diet and not enough on physical activity," he says.
Indeed, of the ten most obese states, government surveys show nine of them are also the most sedentary. Coincidentally, the residents of the most obese state, Mississippi, report the lowest rates of leisure-time physical activity in the country.
OK, so seriously - eat all the junk you want. Just don't bitch if you're fat because you didn't exercise. And quit regulating food, dammit!
While there is no clear relationship between soft drinks or fast-food restaurants and obesity, there is an unambiguous relationship between physical inactivity and obesity in the United States.
Well, now you know what Coca-Cola and McDonalds want you to think about food and weight. Eat all you want, then go exercise. Nevermind that even if you were to indulge in all the junk you wanted and then work off every single calorie, you'd STILL be hurting nutritionally because all of that junk lacks fiber and antioxidants. Oh, CCF, you make me laugh.
Op ed #2 is a hit piece on Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and all the rest of us who want Obama to give us a better food system. They go off on organics, making fun of us silly hippie types who want to eat better food:
A knee-jerk rejection of conventionally grown - and affordable - food also fails to acknowledge the growing body of evidence showing that organics are no healthier (or "greener" even) than what our parents fed us.
Obama's hesitation to appease foodie activists suggests that he realizes something many Americans still don't: Organic is a wishful agricultural philosophy, not a health issue. (You'll even find organic snack bars on the current peanut-recall list.)
Our food system isn't perfect, but neither is it "broken." Despite alarmist claims to the contrary, America's food supply has never been safer or more efficient. [emphasis mine]
Never been safer and more efficient? Wow, they must never read the news. As for organics as a "wishful" philosophy - allow me to point you in the direction of some research proving that organics is both MORE efficient than conventional AND one of the best ways to mitigate global warming.
Oh, and P.S. you foodies are elitist, says CCF.
The upshot is that Pollan' philosophy of food may be an apt guide for elitist shopping and meal-planning, but certainly not for governing.
Pollan, Waters, and others may be happy to pay $7 for organic milk. That's their right, of course. But asking the White House to lead a revolution against "cheap food" is a dangerous strategy when so many Americans are already struggling to feed their families.
Honestly CCF, shut your fucking pie hole. And to the newspaper printing this drivel... seriously, can you stop enabling them? |
