News Flash
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced last week that our future is fat. By 2030, 86% of Americans are predicted to be overweight and 42% will be obese.
This data was announced at the CDC’s Weight of the Nation conference.
I went to the CDC’s site and tried to find the report. The newest information I could find was from 2010. Slightly out of date.
It was reported that the data would also be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. I went to their site. This is a peer-reviewed medical journal. I couldn’t find any published report. I could find out how I could submit an article if I were a researcher. And I could find a sample of the journal. Looks like you have to join to get any more information. Nothing available to the public; at least not yet.
It’s not that I doubt the statistics. I believe the numbers to sadly, be true.
So I went to a source most consider to be of high reputation; USA Today.
At least they reported some of what came out of the conference. They chose to follow the money. The focus of their article was all about the increases we’ll see in the health care costs. Or in some cases they see some things leveling off.
They interviewed a health economist named Eric Finkelstein, with the Duke University Global Health Institute. I should have guessed there would be a job called Health Economist. I didn’t. At least not until now.
Like I said. He’s following the money.
While I listened to him I really became disheartened. It sounds like the minds at that conference are giving up on us. Just sort of chalking it up. They say if we just stop the obesity epidemic from growing we can save billions. At the end he says he’d “put his money in the kids”. Fix them and you fix the future.
But what about the rest of us? What about those of us on the Plan Z Diet? And what about NOW!
Not so Cheerful,
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