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Why our food is making us fat

by MoneyMagnetMagnate
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It's all corn baby...

Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain's first obese man, painted in 1806. Daniel Lambert weighed 53st (335kg) (742lbs) and was considered a medical oddity. Too heavy to work, Lambert came up with an ingenious idea: he would charge people a shilling to see him. Lambert made a fortune, and his portrait shows him at the end of his life: affluent and respected – a celebrated son of Leicester.

Two hundred years on, I'm in a bariatric ambulance (an alternative term for obese, favoured by the medical world because it's less shaming to patients) investigating why the UK is in the midst of an obesity crisis. The crew pick up a dozen Daniel Lamberts every week. Fifty-three stone is nothing special, it's at the lower end of the weight spectrum, with only the 80st* patients worthy of mention when a shift finishes.

Why our food is making us fat | Business | The Guardian


*(509kg/1120 lbs)
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    Might watch that on Thursday.

    I've heard of all these Trans Fats that are now being taken out of the food chain after a few decades.

    Maybe they will move onto this next.

    Only problem is Jamie Oliver will probably get involved. Likes to see himself as some food champion for the common man pontificating in self righteous indignation.

    Funny thing about all this unnatural food that we are now eating is that it is a fact we live longer and healthier.

    Average 70 year old these days does not look or behave like a 70 year old and is expected to live into thir 80s no real problem.

    So even though it is all deemed bad, in a weird way we are better off.

    70 year olds in the 1920s look like wizzened old tree stumps.

    Dan
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