Sun, Aug-05-01, 17:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,212
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Plan: My own (based on a compil
Stats: 333/260/224
BF:
Progress: 67%
Location: Hampshire, England
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Hi Eebee,
We have exactly the same problem in the UK.
I have been trying to persuade the British Government to put a stop to a large number of operations in this country every year which I believe are unnecessary. These are such operations as wiring people's jaws together, stomach stapling, gastric bypass and inflating balloons in people's stomachs. The medical profession use this kind of operation to reduce the weight of people who would be in our "triple digit" club. My point is that such operations can be avoided by simply putting candidates onto a suitable low carbohydrate diet. The British Government, while sympathetic to any initiative aimed at reducing the rapidly-growing number of overweight people here as in the rest of the world, have expressed concern about low-carb diets. Apparently there is an international agreement to which the UK is a party that the amount of carbohydrates each person consumes be increased to a certain figure, higher than at present. On this basis, the Government feel unable to support my suggestions, because adopting them would contravene the agreed guidelines for carbohydrate consumption. Am I the crazy one? Surely these horrendous operations are far worse than contravening questionable guidelines? I have asked for more information from the Government, and depending what they say, I might be back to this forum in a few weeks asking what is known about this agreement elsewhere, and what sort of implementation other countries are imposing. I would certainly be interested to know about New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA. The worrying thing is that Governments take their advice from dieticians and doctors who all seem to promote the low-calorie and greater exercise regimens we know do not work, and they all dismiss our opinions as cranky, eccentric or weird. It seems from your post that the same applies in NZ.
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