33% of Americans are Obese according to the NY Times Today. The New York Times said that now the big class actions are going to be directed towards Obesity as a risk factor rather than Tobacco. It is about time! Michelle Obama is really on the right track here! She is totally integrating the right messages of gardening, healthy food in inner cities, responsibility over what we eat.
What i don't understand so well is why we are not eradicating obesity in this decade by simply implementing the formula we know works. We simply must exercise every day, eat according to our biological design, and employ awareness in our lives so that we can feel our natural well being.
My South Beach Detox Program could eradicate obesity in 5 years or less. If it were implemented on a national scale as i implement it here in South Beach, the results would be stunning. We must make sure we continue to eat intelligently and exercise vigorously every day and then we can eliminate the epidemic, plague of obesity in our country, and the world will follow.
"As public health priorities shift, anti-tobacco programs are losing out to the campaign against obesity."
When the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation decided in 1991 to take on Joe Camel, it became the nation’s largest private funding source for fighting smoking. The foundation spent $700 million to help knock the cartoon character out of advertisements, finance research and advocacy for higher cigarette taxes and smoke-free air laws and, ultimately, to aid in reducing the nation’s smoking rate almost by half.
But a few years ago, the Johnson foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., added another target to its mission, pledging to spend $500 million in five years to battle childhood obesity. As the antiobesity financing rose to $58 million last year, a new compilation from the foundation shows, the organization’s antismoking grants fell to $4 million.
The steep drop-off in private funds illustrates the competition under way for money as public health priorities shift. In the race for preventive health care dollars, from charities and from federal and state government sources, the tobacco warriors have become a big loser. And the nation’s battle to shed pounds has in its corner the White House, with Michelle Obama leading a new campaign against childhood obesity. Shortly after the first lady kicked off the “Let’s Move” program, the administration awarded more funds to fight obesity than tobacco through two big new money sources for preventive health. The funds, totaling $1.15 billion, came from economic stimulus and health care reform legislation. They still provided more than $200 million for tobacco-use prevention, but much more to grapple with obesity.
The changes in financing are also evident across the country. State governments have used tobacco’s billions to balance their budgets while cutting $150 million from antitobacco programs over the last two years. On the airways, obesity public service announcements are lining up while a “Truth” campaign about tobacco languishes for lack of money.
“Don’t forget tobacco,” pleaded a commentary this month in The New England Journal of Medicine.
One in five Americans still smokes.
But one in three is obese.
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