Yet, it does not seem to be the case that office workers are all obese, and manual workers are lean.

I think people are obese because eating is fun, and the cost of food calories as a percentage of income has been falling. And I think people drive cars because it’s useful, and the cost of cars as a percentage of income has been falling.

The notion that people eat more because they do less requires more rigorous analysis, I think.

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Are “Ersatz”. Not digested .

These enter the body as TRANS-FATS and probably never leave it.
Don’t they remain as obese botties, big titties, etc.?

Better by far to go back to Granny’s recipes using Pork Lard, Beef Dripping, Butter and so on. They will get metabolised.

Got enzymes for them, see? You needn’t eat a lot of them.
Those “Veg. Oils”, “Veg. Solids” appear in most Ice Creams and packaged foods in the big supermarkets.

Be warned.

We certainly need to congratulate Dr. Ian Robert for his thought provoking note. With the growing trend in childhood obesity, the issue of a decline in our children’s level of physical activity is now at the forefront of public health challenges. As there are many public health benefits to an active life style the rights of pedestrians and cyclists to use roadways safely, both as a means of transport and as a leisure activity, need to be safeguarded in order to increase the pleasure and likeness of walking in our neighborhoods. All road users deserve better and safer road travel.

To promote walking and cycling as an active mode of transportation it is critical to first identify the perceived and real barriers, second, recognize effective strategies and then further develop them to surmount the problems that hinder walking and cycling. An increase in activity of 30 minutes per day has been proposed as an adequate amount of exercise which would curtail the effects of a higher calorie diet. This roughly equates to the amount of time a child would normally spent commuting to and from school. The health benefits of active commuting have been proven in the adult population; one study found that there was a 40% reduction in all cause mortality for men and women who cycle to work. Walking and cycling are two forms of physical activity that meet the metabolic criteria for achieving health benefits from exercise. The consultation document from the Health of the Nation physical activity taskforce concludes that activities of moderate intensity, such as brisk walking and cycling, offer the greatest potential of health gain for most of the population. Efforts to create safe and accessible routes for children to walk and bike to school will create a trickle down effect for people of all ages.

In 1969, approximately half of all schoolchildren walked or bicycled to or from school and 87% of those living within 1 mile of school used active modes of transportation to get there. By contrast, today fewer than 15% of children and adolescents use active modes of transportation. One recent study in the US explored the question of why children don’t walk to school more often. Parents reported multiple barriers as follows: long distances (55%), traffic danger (40%), weather (24%), crime (18%), and school policy (7%). Similarly, a recent study in the UK showed that 85% of parents were worried about traffic danger on the journey to school. Traffic dangers, perceived and real, are discouraging parents from allowing children to walk and cycle to school, a trend seen across the globe: in the UK less than half of primary school children walk to school (18) and 50% are driven less than a mile to school, in India children are discouraged from walking or cycling to school due to increased vehicle danger.