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Stepping On The Garden Rake, Again
Why the new weight-loss drugs are a truly terrible idea
A study published on 29th February 2024 in The Lancet (the journal of the British medical profession), based on data from 190 countries and 220,000,000 people, revealed that more than one billion humans are now obese. The USA, not surprisingly, remains a trend-setter with 42% of men and 44% of women being thus classified. A few tiny nations manage to out-do the USA thanks to a combination of fast-food and a belief that bigger is better: in American Samoa 75% of all adults are obese.
As is always the case with self-created human failure, our first reaction is denial. Despite it being obvious that genetics are not the cause of obesity (hardly anyone in the world was obese two hundred years ago, before the availability of McSlop and the deeply toxic mass-produced “convenience” foods that comprise 85% of the contents of every modern supermarket), even supposed “experts” now proclaim in a suitably Politically Correct manner that no one can be held responsible for their weight gain. Whatever the cause of the global obesity epidemic, it surely cannot ever be the result of consuming vast quantities of slop while living an entirely sedentary lifestyle.
Because if it were, then individuals would have to take personal responsibility for the state of…
