Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "Australia ‘in trouble’ as obesity becomes ‘more common’" video.

  1. That's a very shrewd observation. I live in a small town. Whilst we have cafes, fish and chips, and hamburgers, we have no multinational fast food chains. And I don't see obesity in children or young people. I think you are onto something though. In the 1980s as a young adult I weighed 50kg. Doctors continuously told me I was underweight. By my forties I weighed 65 kg. I remember a nurse weighing me and saying I was obese. This seemed ridiculous. I asked her what weight I should be and she said 45kg. So over a twenty year period, 50kg had essentially gone from underweight, to overweight, for my height. I also note that the video says all the remedies for obesity involve big pharma and or surgery. I know there are a lot of fat people around but I have had a lifetime interest in the early modern era, and descriptions of people being stout or rotund in middle age are everywhere. It just wasn't considered abnormal. I have read that both Queen Victoria and Henry 8 first wife, had waist measurements equal to their height by middle age.
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  2. It could be worse. We could be starving to death. And soon will be if the WEF has their way.
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