Thursday, September 07, 2006

Follow the money

So who is sponsoring the 10th International Congress on Obesity 2006? A whole lotta companies with a vested interest in selling things to fat people to try and make them thin (most with a very miserable success rate. There is no profit in people who actually like themselves, so these companies have to come up with epidemics and pandemics to panic people in to buying their crap.

Here's a tidbit, everyone in the world is now "pre-hypertensive" and "pre-diabetic" since the drug companies are now trying to get people who don't have these problems onto medications so they can sell more.

1 comment:

Patsy said...

This is an excellent post, Jean. I decided to check out this blog after reading about your delicious lunch & wondering if the gods of healthism had shot a lightening bolt at you guys yet. They are desperately trying to control us all, force us all to live on diets, & probably, in their evil little hearts, force all us "non-compliant" fat people into some kind of fat concentration camps. What frightens me most of all is that I can tell, from my reading, that many of the most recognized "fat activists" are buying virtually all of this crap & aligning themselves in some way with forces who want to wipe us off the face of the earth.

As for the "everyone is sick" stuff, isn't that the truth? People have trouble believing that I am 57 & take no prescriptions. My sons' father is now on BP medication apparently, despite the fact that his BP was 125/67 WITHOUT medication. He is also taking a totally unnecessary cholesterol med. He is not savvy about this stuff & I have not been able to make him see what is being done to us in this culture. We have a lot of work to do to retain ownership of our lives & bodies.