Obesity, the epidemic that the United States is spreading

[sen-no-sen]

An interesting article published in the echoes linking economic model and obesity:

Obesity, the epidemic that the United States is spreading

Today, 40% of the US population is considered obese. By spreading their food culture in Mexico or Canada, through their trade agreements, the United States has a considerable responsibility in advancing this epidemic around the world. We must act to reverse the trend

At a time when the US President's administration, Donald Trump, persists in unraveling the laws introduced by President Barack Obama, the prospects are likely to darken in the fight against the global epidemic of obesity. Without control, obesity rates could grow rapidly and stop the major improvements seen worldwide in recent years in terms of health and life expectancy. By spreading its food culture to countries like Mexico and Canada, America is making the problem worse.

Paradox of global modern capitalism, even though 800 millions of people around the world do not eat their hunger, it is estimated 700 million the number of obese individuals (including 100 million children). Of course, these two trends are not necessarily directly correlated. A considerable part of the world's famine strikes countries affected by internal conflicts and government dysfunctions.
Exorbitant costs

The obesity epidemic, on the other hand, is much wider, affecting developed economies and emerging markets in their majority. Although there is some link between obesity and poverty, it should be noted that obesity rates in rich countries like the United States, the United Kingdom or Canada are among the highest in the world.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported a staggering figure, estimating at 40% the number of obese Americans (ie, having a body mass index equal to or greater than 30 ), of which 20,6% of adolescents (from 12 to 19 years). According to the CDC, the average weight of an American woman today is higher than the average weight of a US man in 1960 (75 kg).

In 1960, the average weight of an American woman was 63 kg, while the average weight of an American man today reaches 88 kg (over the same period, the average size of Americans has increased only of 2,5 cm). The same trend can be found around the world, with obesity rates skyrocketing in Europe, Latin America and even China.

Although it is difficult to gauge the long-term health consequences, there is considerable evidence that obesity contributes significantly to the increase of type II diabetes, heart attacks and certain types of cancer. This represents exorbitant health costs, estimated at nearly 200 billion dollars each year in the United States alone.

https://www.lesechos.fr/06/12/2017/lesechos.fr/030983305524_l-obesite--cette-epidemie-que-les-etats-unis-propagent.htm

[Ahmed]

It is an unexpected consequence of the accumulation of the abstract value which finds some very concrete counterpart in the weight accumulation of the individuals ... It translates an inversion of the usual conditions of the humanity which has long struggled to maintain a ratio satisfactory between energy expenditure and caloric gain: now this link is broken due to the outsourcing of the energy spent.

[sen-no-sen]

In the same vein...

How do you say "drinking water" in Mexican? Answer: Coca-cola... This joke is unfortunately far from a joke: all over the country, it is easier - and often cheaper - to buy a bottle of soft drink than to get water. Pollution, dilapidated network, overexploitation of groundwater ... State of play.

(...) Corollary of this lack of water, or independent phenomenon, the consumption of soft drinks exploded in Mexico. This country is the first consumer in the world of this sweet drink with the equivalent of 728 bottles 25 cl per year and per capita, against 406 for the United States or 149 for France (figures Coca-Cola 2012). Mexico alone consumes 42% of all Coca-Cola drunk in Latin America ...

It must be said that the company has a very aggressive commercial policy. In addition to the ubiquitous advertising, the company offers half cans or mini bottles at ridiculous prices, to ensure that the poorest people or children with three pesos in their pocket consume the soft drink.

Of course this consumption of Coca-Cola is one of the factors of the epidemic of overweight and obesity that strikes Mexico: 70% of the population are overweight, of whom 33% is obese and 13% is diabetic.

https://reporterre.net/Au-Mexique-la-population-manque-d

[sen-no-sen]

This is an unexpected consequence of the accumulation of the abstract value who finds some very concrete counterpart in the weight accumulation of individuals... It reflects a reversal of the usual conditions of humanity that has long struggled to maintain a satisfactory ratio between energy expenditure and caloric gain: now this link is broken due to the outsourcing of energy spent.

Very good! And that's because of the fractal nature of economism.
The current economic system is based on exponential economic growth, it has been operating for decades underQuantitative easing,CDS etc ...), so it is quite logical to find on smaller scales the same type of phenomena this time affecting food.
The imbalances are therefore at the same time ecological, but also social, societal, geopolitical etc ...
On a nutritional scale, this manifests itself in a diet that is deliberately too fat, too sweet, too salty, stuffed with sweeteners and doubtful additives.
Food within the system is therefore entertainment, it is a kind of subterfuge taste to deceive the consumer by making it Addict and by dispossessing him at the same time of his health ... the pharmaco-chemical sector has only to take over! $$$

This joins the very relevant relationship established by F.Roddier between cancer and liberalism, the article above confirms the comparison very well.
Growth, deregulation and cancer:http://www.francois-roddier.fr/?p=43

[Janic]

In the same vein...
How do you say "drinking water" in Mexican? Answer: Coca-cola ... This joke is unfortunately far from a joke: in all the country, IT IS EASIER - and often cheaper - to buy a bottle of soft drink than to get water. Pollution, dilapidated network, overexploitation of groundwater ... State of play.

A documentary, made on coca, showed that a whole region, around the production plants of this drink, was deprived of drinking water and the only solution, for adults and even babies, was to consume this product to be able to hydrate . It is not a choice, but a constraint and French consumers who are scandalized by children working in Asia to provide them with cheap products, should also think about this situation before buying this drug.

[Ahmed]

Sen-no-sen, you write:

... it (the economic system) has been working for decades under doping (debts, quantitative easing, CDS etc ...)

Yes, this is true for the last decades since the conditions of realization of the money metabolism have become more difficult, but fundamentally it is the need to convert an initial sum into a higher final sum via the sale of merchandise. which is the cause of exponentiality and this in a strictly mathematical way. This is contrary to the widely held view that this phenomenon is solely in the interest of the debt: it is to see only a derivative and minor aspect of a general and massive reality.
The ticket F. Roddier that you quote is indeed quite relevant. In the diet, we find the doping elements that work in economics, besides those mentioned, the massive intake of animal protein * (meat, milk ...) are growth factors that can not be expressed in adults that by the formation of cancers, only perpetually young structures ... It can also be considered as a dissipative structure that uses energy that can not escape in muscular form (because of the other side of outsourcing).

*Hello, Janic!
You do well to quote the absurd consequences of this pharmaceutical beverage.

[sen-no-sen]

A documentary, made on coca, showed that a whole region, around the production plants of this drink, was deprived of drinking water and the only solution, for adults and even babies, was to consume this product to be able to hydrate . It is not a choice, but a constraint and French consumers who are scandalized by children working in Asia to provide them with cheap products, should also think about this situation before buying this drug.

Indeed, the price per liter of the famous soda is very close to that of the mineral water in Mexico, of the order of 0,83 euros for 1,5l of coca against 0,44 for the same amount in mineral water, however in the very poor region of Chiapas the price of Coke is the same as that of mineral water!

[Christophe]

sustainable-consumption/obesity-is-gaining-ground-t6930.html

[Exnihiloest]

 
It's good for the planet. The obese live less long, therefore pollute less during their life. It goes completely in the direction of ecological Malthusianism.

[izentrop]

 It's good for the planet. The obese live less long, therefore pollute less during their life. It goes completely in the direction of ecological Malthusianism.

Whatever if you count the carbon footprint of medical costs to treat the comorbidities that follow, not sure that the calculation is correct

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As dedicated crops will be gradually diverted to make "biofuels", sugar prices and it will become less attractive, suddenly obesity

It's still global warming