I read an article in the LA Times Health page today about our current obesity problem. Doctors are begging the FDA to approve drugs that could help fight obesity. If the major drug companies don't have a big hit soon in that department, many doctors are afraid that they will pull out of the venture and leave the R&D to smaller less reputable companies. Here is my gripe. Not with the article, it was wonderfully balanced and extremely well written, but the argument is in the wrong place. Why do we as a society always try to fix our problems once they've over ridden us? We don't need medicine to cure this problem. The source is not a medical one, it is a sociological problem that merely affects our medical condition. McDonald's across the way from Carl's, next to a Starbuck's in the same center as your healthy food safe haven, the grocery store...? Well safe haven may be a bit mis leading. Finding food with out high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils is hard enough, forgetting all the saturated fat we induce daily. Every where we turn we are faced with carbohydrates and sugar, and worse now, fake sugar, real butter, fake oil, but its ok, it is a soy latte. And we want the doctors to fix us? "Hey Doc, toss me a pill, I've been thinkin' bout droppin' a couple pounds, what do you think?" Wrong, we need to start with our children and our selves, it is the decisions we make, and we make them well. Don't blame the FDA for not approving drugs to make you thinner, see a psychologist if you really need to, thats who can help you, not pfizer or lilly. So if you want my opinion, buy organic, exercise daily and have fun doing it, eat well balanced meals and laugh often. Oh btw, don't smoke either. For more information on how to eat healthy balanced meals, go to -----> mypyramid.gov
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Devin Ablard
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