As usual, never talking a common language… all egos and pocket
lining. Vern and Vince visit the Houses Of Parliament to attend the
National Obesity Forum (NOF) and witness what a mess the government
face in making polices and debates on tackling obesity.

Calorie
teachers and Brothers Vince and Vern visited the House of Commons to
sit in on a debate hosted by (NOF) National Obesity Forum with Dr Ian
Campbell as chairman it was a debate on curing obesity with selected
M.Ps attending.

We witnessed an endless array of people standing giving lectures on
statistics and percentages on the current trends in the obesity
epidemic. Strangely, nothing about cures or procedures.

In a nut shell, Dr Ian Campbell was trying to convince all to get more
money per head from the government to “compensate” doctors for the
amount of people they had to treat, because of the little time given to
treat them. So more money was his opinion. I am sure it is being a
Doctor, calling for obesity to come under GMS (general medical
services) and of course paid accordingly. More pocket lining.

Doctors offering a wide range of services called alternative options,
such as surgery and pills, is likewise, not the answer which the NOF
web site will soon guide you to. Then we had one M.P who after
unloading a load of talk on the subject then left never to return after
his “bit” was done. His day diary filled no doubt.

Another M.P spoke of supplement aids and nutritional supplements being
a possible way forward, he mentioned he had some close relationship
with a supplement company in this area of research.

It was laughable pomp and waffle. More ironic was that half of the
attendees were over weight. One of the chief speakers had the biggest
belly hanging out of his trousers as he stood to speak. Only thing in
“common” in the commons, was fatness.

Most of the people in the chamber were “sent” by some respected company or other for P.R.

I grabbed my chance to stand up and say something at this intellectual
waffle on statistics and bidding for government contracts.

So I directed my point to that over weight person, sat in a important
prominent part of the chamber who could obviously be seen by all in the
room, as he was on display in his position of authority with a posture
of feathered turkey.

I asked him,

“How many calories did he eat today?”

This was directed to the rest of the room the likewise question.

“How many calories does anyone in this obesity Forum know they had today?”

Of course the room remained silent.

The causes of obesity is because no one, not even these attendees knows what were talking about.

It’s the thing in “common” with obesity, that is, not collectively
knowing calories or their value. So it’s easy to eat too many of what
you don’t know about, or have no “common” idea about.

A problem that is “common” through out in the forum of obesity. Obesities opposite is calorie knowledge obviously!

Precisely my point. If these respected people who govern policy have
not got a clue about calories, then how will the less intelligent know
how to gain control, I say less intelligent because one speaker went on
to demonstrated by statistics that it is the less educated or lower
income people who tend to be the most obese.

That’s precisely the reason that you should talk in a language simplistic enough to understand.

The point I was trying to make was, we need “calorie” teachers. Yes!
People who not only talk about calories, but who can show literally how
to find them day to day week to week.

In a simple term that everyone understands.

They all look bemused by my point. (After it was asked who here knows
how many calories that had at any time in their busy office day?)

Yet weight loss is ONLY successful as part of a calorie controlled diet??

I happened to have NOF’s own web site definition on weight loss/management (click here to view)...

Indeed we agree with NOF’s “How Weight loss works” that’s why you need
a calorie teacher who could teach someone in simple terms how 2000 or
2500 calories are found.

That’s why we have a epidemic. No one knows how to find this “calorie”
or increase of “calorie” intake. Indeed we all can write and use
mathematics to support our argument, I will quote the words that best
sum this up from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who
served on the NASA Challenger investigation, I quote:

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

Because we have failed to communicate its importance of understanding
its currency and its correct evaluation, does not mean it does not
exist. It means those in control of education failed to understand it
themselves.

We need calorie teachers just like electric needs an electrician and a
6mm bolt needs a 6mm spanner. Otherwise why quote how weight loss
works. Giving more money in GMS grants to Doctors as this is not the
answer. Good communicating calorie teachers are, it’s the right tool
for the job.