Fwd: RED FLAGS FROM REDFLAGSDAILY.COM, SEPTEMBER 22, 2003

[Guest guest]

It looks to me like a buildup by some big money interests to creat a

product/solution to the fat problem, instead of what is really wrong, and that

is that we have an unhealthy food supply and an uneducated buying public, but I

doubt that will ever become an issue. F.

 

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:49:27 -0700

RED FLAGS FROM REDFLAGSDAILY.COM, SEPTEMBER 22, 2003

 

" Nicholas Regush "

 

 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2003

 

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RED FLAGS

 

THINKING ABOUT THE FAT VIRUS IN THE ERA OF OBESITY

 

By RFD Editor, Nicholas Regush

 

Be forewarned: this is scary stuff, particularly if you happen to be fat. It’s

bad enough that fat people in this thin-obsessed culture are now under the

microscope like never before and often treated badly or like they belong in a

zoo, but now watch out for signs of more extreme discrimination.

 

I’m thinking here about the likely vaccine for fat that is more than a twinkle

in someone’s eye. (As is the trend, there will be a vaccine soon for every

condition in the body.) And where there is talk about a fat vaccine, there is

likely to be a hypothesis about how being fat is an infectious disease.

 

That’s right, one day you are svelte and really cool looking in your designer

threads and then someone (possibly a very fat person) sneezes on you and bingo

bongo a virus attacks you and you’re soon fat too.

 

All this talk about high-fat, low-fat, high carb, low carb and big bucket food

servings these days is all a bunch of junk. Right? When there is a virus lurking

about, the name of the game is " CONTAGION. "

 

What on earth am I going on about? Scientists at the University of Wisconsin

have already reported that inoculating chickens and mice with human adenovirus,

or a virus that typically causes colds, causes them to put on fat. The

researchers raised the question that humans may catch the fat virus, too. Wow.

Hot stuff. Rumor has it that they are grant-rich and continue their pioneering

work.

 

The researchers compared blood samples from 313 obese people with 92 lean people

and found that 32 per cent of the obese showed signs of infection with Ad-36 in

the form of antibody responses. Only four of the non-fatty set had antibodies.

Brilliant. Science is getting better all the time. Much more sophisticated than

ever before.

 

So this nightmarish idea that I can catch a fat virus is cascading through my

brain as I sit in a crowded food court in Montreal. Nervously, I observe a

steady stream of fat people strolling by merely several feet away. In fact, I’m

also beginning to feel surrounded by fat people who are eating buckets of food.

 

I begin to sweat profusely at the thought of contracting the fat virus from one

of these possible carriers.

 

The news reports I have read in recent years on this new horror give me the

chills. For example, a couple of years back, one pull-out quote in the magazine

New Scientist even reminded me that " Should you be unlucky enough to get the

virus, you’re overwhelmingly likely to end up fat. "

 

Another large-type quote in that magazine read: " What does this mean for people

who share buses and offices with carriers? "

 

No kidding. And what about being kissed by a fat person? Or hugged? Or even you

know what?

 

Jeepers creepers! The smart and obvious move would be to invest heavily in

surgical masks. Just like with SARS, also lurking about and ready to pounce.

 

But realistically, masks might not be enough to ward off this new threat to

public health. The worried thin, led by guerrilla bands of celebrity fashion

models, could declare war on the fat. There may even be calls for quarantining

the obese.

 

But wait! Researchers have yet to pull live Ad-36 out of anyone, suggesting (as

might be expected with a virus that will be attacked by the body’s immune

system) that any infection with this virus may not be very long-lasting. In

other words, it’s far from clear how transmission of this virus occurs in

humans.

 

But hey, previous studies on chickens, mice and marmosets showed that those

injected with Ad-36 develop more body fat than non-injected animal controls. Is

this what is happening in humans?

 

Stay tuned. More terrific science is on the way. We’ll let you know when it’s

time to go to E-bay and buy thousands of those anti-fat masks.

 

 

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