tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post8652767180878532969..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Fried Bread And CircusesThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-88472211779382043942008-06-20T02:46:00.000+01:002008-06-20T02:46:00.000+01:00http://www.weightcontroldoctor.com/http://www.live...http://www.weightcontroldoctor.com/<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.liverdoctor.com/<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.sandracabot.com/books.php<BR/><BR/><BR/>Best info I have found on losing weight and staying healthyJoe Fridayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947078797214543946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-81653401580138704142008-06-05T13:48:00.000+01:002008-06-05T13:48:00.000+01:00Okay, but you must admit that it will be sort of h...Okay, but you must admit that it will be sort of hilarious if the human race does in fact gorge itself to death. How the other animals will laugh -- assuming we haven't eaten them all by then.<BR/><BR/>Problem is, a lot of our culturally favored habits of gluttony and sloth -- which tend to lead to a lot of ill health but, as you noted, not necessarily obesity -- are actually feeding the global warming problem. I have a long list of examples, but I know you already know them. Come visit me in America sometime, and I'll show you more. In fact, I'll probably even demonstrate some without even gaining a pound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-83526097200232237312008-06-01T19:54:00.000+01:002008-06-01T19:54:00.000+01:00Thanks everyone,Diane - Indeed. :-)Jack - Absolute...Thanks everyone,<BR/><BR/>Diane - Indeed. :-)<BR/><BR/>Jack - Absolutely, the <I>pensions timebomb</I> is another that comes up frequently enough. Yet as I say, where a really major health crisis exists, the life expectancy goes down; as it has in many African countries because of AIDS - I believe in Botswana it's something ridiculous like 37. But we're here worrying terribly about a thing when our life-expectancy is going up - and then worrying about how we're going to pay for all these older folk.<BR/><BR/>Ian - Thanks for your kind words.<BR/><BR/>The thing with the fast food companies and children is downright sinister. I read Morgan Spurlocks book that he wrote after the <I>Supersize Me</I> thing and whilst I felt rather uncomfortable about any suggestion that fast food chains are responsible for the choices that adults make, they really do go for the kids in the worst way. <BR/><BR/>Even I remember, as a child, convinced that MacDonalds would be a wonderful place with very tasty food, only to be sorely disappointed when I finally got to go there (lucky me!)<BR/><BR/>As for the Climate Change thing, it is absolutely baffling. And how religion becomes part of the equation I don't know - if God made the world, you'd think that would give us all a particularly special responsibility to look after the place.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-80224941628176009612008-06-01T17:36:00.000+01:002008-06-01T17:36:00.000+01:00What a wonderfully well thought out post. Well wri...What a wonderfully well thought out post. Well written and well considered, I have to agree with it almost word for word.<BR/><BR/>I think it is horrifying that children are allowed and even encouraged to overindulge in fast food diets. There should be an equal bar to entry on fast food outlets (and churches, too for that matter) as there is on off-licences and pubs.<BR/><BR/>What is even more terrifying is that particularly in the United States people still debate (well, the scientists don't, but the priests and politicians do) not the solutions to climate change but the validity of climate change.<BR/><BR/>I hear that the oil companies are now excited to be able to drill for oil more readily because of the receding ice caps. <BR/><BR/>Am I the only one choking on the irony?<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>IanIan Hewitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03777144301141914004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-40166778507050528482008-06-01T01:38:00.000+01:002008-06-01T01:38:00.000+01:00Don't forget the pensions crisis. Surely the gover...Don't forget the pensions crisis. Surely the government should be trying to encourage people to die younger -- so that there's enough money to pay for pensions & healthcare for the ones that do linger on?<BR/><BR/>And then again, there's the whole thing about us f***ing up the planet anyway: I'd probably have to drink and eat more in order for my personal 'timebombs' to catch up with the environmental one.<BR/><BR/>But then again, I'm a cynical so-and-so :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-90973807274754152282008-05-31T12:33:00.000+01:002008-05-31T12:33:00.000+01:00Great post. My aunt, obese akk her adult life live...Great post. My aunt, obese akk her adult life lived to be in 80's; a couin also obese all adult life lived healthy to 89. Genes.Diane J Standifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862850657925658079noreply@blogger.com