19 February 2008
News and Comments - 02/19/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Mac Says:
19 February 2008 at 8:25 am.
Big news day today with Pakistan losing its ruling party and Castro resigning. The world is changing.
Cameron Says:
19 February 2008 at 8:50 am.
Wow, the nanny state is going global. It is sad that they take something important that is such a problem and use to to make people think we have to be treated like two year olds. When what we eat becomes mandated, something is out of control.
Obesity ‘requires climate plan’
Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said.
The chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce wants world leaders to agree a global pact to ensure that everyone is fed healthy food.
Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so great that action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options.
He also called for stricter rules on marketing and food labelling.
Professor James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, was speaking in Boston at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
He commented: “This is a community epidemic that is actually a response to all the wonderful apparent industrial and economic development changes that we’ve seen, with a collapse in the need for physical activity, and now a targeting of children to make profits by big industry in food and drink.
“We have to change that, and it will not come unless we have a coherent government-led strategy. The issue is: have we got the political will?”
Cameron Says:
19 February 2008 at 9:12 am.
This is from a USA article about the election in Pakistan. Bin Laden is suppose to be there along with a lot of other terrorists. What do we do now? Here is one paragraph from the article:
Musharraf was not on the ballot, but a solid victory by opposition parties might lead Pakistan to reverse his policies against Islamist militants, says retired lieutenant general Hamid Gul, former head of the intelligence service. “The election is a referendum against Musharraf’s policies,” Gul says. The war on terrorism “is not our war. Why are we fighting this war?”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-02-18-pakistan-elections_N.htm
Matt Says:
19 February 2008 at 11:32 am.
Cameron,
Glad you are back. I tried to keep up but some of us have to work for a living 
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