Sat, 06 Aug 2005

Study Links Tobacco Smoke With Belly Fat

It's not a beer belly - it's a smoke belly! Smoking makes teens fat! I would only point out one niggling detail to these "researchers" - while the number of overweight teens in the United States has tripled in the past two decades, the number of smokers have been cut by more than half, and the number of teen smokers by more than two thirds. Sound's like a direct link to me, but i suspect it might be in the opposite direction!!! In fact, we have studies proving that! Check out French Women Don't Get Fat, the best selling book.

And while this is indeed a Study in Stupidity I couldn't bring myself to place it in 'Humor' - the motives here are way too transparent to be even remotely funny:

"The bottom line to me is: As we gear up to take on this epidemic of obesity, we cannot abandon protecting our children from secondhand smoke and smoking," said lead author Dr. Michael Weitzman, executive director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research in Rochester, N.Y.

So food is next on the Puritan agenda: but they don't want to lose their funding for tobacco studies! When are we gonna wake up to the real control agenda of these "activists"?

Exposure to cigarette smoke raises the risk among teens of metabolic syndrome, a disorder associated with excess belly fat that increases the chances of heart disease, stroke and diabetes, according to a study.

(link) [Washington Post]

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On 8/6/2005 12:43:59
Starlight Bunnybutt wrote

Saw this at Big Fat Blog

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