[AKA_Monet]

The irony is that the kinds of children that are gaining massive amounts of weight could be from genetic groupings of folks that contain "thrifty genes".

The "thrifty gene" hypothesis is that certain genes have been maintained over the years because of times of starvation and survival. However during times of abundance, the "thrifty genes" do not "turned off"--they pretty much go into overdrive.

Why is that more and more people are having a lower metabolic rates as the "metabolic syndrome" rates are increasing within the past 10-20 years??? It makes one wonder...

It is the processed foods that are somewhat the culprit. The layman just does not know what companies must do to maintain sterility of their food products... It is either "E. coli burgers" or fatty-sugary "french fries" or both... And veggies are not out of the loop either... And organic farms are just not crankin' out the huge demand like GMO farms can with full on carcinogenic insecticides and antibiotics... It's amazing we would want to eat anything at all knowing what is going on...

Then there is addiction issues--you try going off refined sugar. Your withdrawal symptoms will be worse than a recovering heroin addict's...

Then, caffienation... Yeah, not gonna happen...

Then there is something to be said about unclean food--it helps boost up your immune system... Get those neutraphils workin'... Because of the processing of food, we are in an antimicrobial environment causing more autoimmune disorders within a decade...

One of these disorders is Prader-Willi's... These poor kids have a neurological disorder that can been seen with a MRI, sometimes, where the pituitary does not tell the stomach that it is full. So thes kids cannot appetite suppress and never know when they are full--or satiated they say in the business.

Although, I think it is extreme for the government to make Medicare pay for obesity. I also think that this is age driven... It is the baby boomers generation... 'Cuz the folks that are getting the top 3 metabolic diseases, Heart disease, diabetes and stroke are at the age of onset is early to mid-50's... Cancer just skrait kills folks and most morbidily obese folks do not have as high death dealing cancer rates as a heart attack will do them... If the cancer doesn't get them first, the heart failure/stroke will... Believe me, I just got back from an American Heart Association conference with top cardiologists world wide--cancer is barely in their vocabulary... The oncologists don't speak myocardial infarction that much... But there is some research out there that suggests that these two processes are somewhat related... I say it is denial...

It is cheaper to pay a flat rate than the full bed-ridden charges that I experienced as a young teen watching my grandmother and grandfather die a slow death in nursing facilities due to stroke and diabetes... Not cool... Especially if you have to clean out folks bed pans...

If there is some treatment that an old person can do to improve their health is that all our kids need to know, a healthy choice is a lifestyle and it is best started when we are young...

So that smoking, drinking and wild sex parties that I know some of you do or some of your friends do--IT DOES COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU...

Ecstasy causes a heart disease that doesn't have an age onset until 40's...

Crystal Meth causes cancer at an age onset of 30's if not younger...

Binge drinking may be a trigger for Alzheimer's PrP transcription...

I could go on and on...

Nobody told me... But I am telling you all--so now you know...

It is easier to take care of a healthy young body than an old broken down one...