It is going to be a more serious health problem than smoking.
If you are obese at 18, you are twice as likely to be dead at 50 than if you are at desirable weight. We are going to see significant numbers of people dying before their parents.
We are up against a food industry that is far bigger than the tobacco lobby ever was.

Very worrying. I see pictures on the net of ordinary Americans enjoying a night out, and they are nearly always very fat, very fat. And now Esme's going to school, the number of very fat kids is astonishing. Even at the swimming pool, it's shocking.

When I was a kid there was only one fat kid in the class, sure he was teased. In Esme's class there's 3 or 4 really fat kids, mainly boys. (¾ are boys anyway.)
 

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"An average fertility of 1.85 children per woman would result in a population of just 2.3 billion, whereas an average of 2.35 would yield 36.4 billion [by 2300.]"

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"A search for the mind's "funny bone" has shed new light on the mysteries of merriment, revealing that the reason humour is addictive is that it activates "reward centres" in the brain"

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SME workers 'barred from unions'
British labour laws unfairly prevent six million small business employees from joining trade unions, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has claimed.

Chechnya suicide bomb on Russian commuter train
There were three women and a man in the group responsible for the blast. Two of the women jumped off the train just before the explosion. One of them [a woman] was injured and will not likely survive. The man died. He was carrying a grenade attached to his legs. The organisers of this crime wanted him to die.

Lancet calls for tobacco ban to save thousands of lives
The tobacco lobby said it revealed the "true voice of the rabid anti-smoking zealot." In an editorial headlined "How do you sleep at night, Mr Blair?", The Lancet says a ban on smoking in public would be a start but that it is "missing the point." The availability and acceptability of smoking is far more significant. A ban on tobacco would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Non smoking in China More than a quarter of China's 1.2 billion population are smokers.
Among adult men, where the rate is about 65%, it is almost a social necessity. Offering a cigarette is a common part of any greeting between males.
I've been non smoking for 167 days 13 hours 29 minutes and still eating much to compensate the cravings.

US man has IT company logo tattooed on head For the next five years a 22-year-old man from Illinois will roam the States with a five-inch CI Host tattoo on the back of his head, handing out business cards and flyers.

e-Minister will make every public library a Wi-Fi hotspot Libraries are particularly well-placed to engage hard-to-reach groups and to help address social exclusion.

Asda to replace sweets with fruit at checkouts Initially, single portions of fruit and other healthier snacks will be placed only at three in 20 checkouts.
Disappointed! I thought for a second that Asda was thinking further than profits. Anyway, if they did do this in a big way they could carry the impression that they are the healthy alternative - that's got to be a bigger boost to profits.

Scientists' big find Colymbosathon ecplecticos - Greek for "amazing swimmer with a large penis" - is the latest find from an "undisclosed" location from the Silurian period.

2nd autopsy on Cincinnati man planned Jones would have been more likely to survive the struggle [with cops] had he not had an enlarged heart, been obese and had cocaine, PCP and methanol in his blood.

Michael Jackson Aging This is how he would have looked now, if it wasn't for his surgery.

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