Triathlon and Obesity

It is important for me to get more information about subjects (topics) and not to speak just from my experience, even though I could be an expert on the subject.  When Carl Whittaker and David Keith did family therapy, they considered an obese family member as the iceberg of the family problems (that was in the 70’s and 80’s. David Keith was my supervisor, and we even had a Grand Rounds Presentation, “Medicine in the Postmodern Era, SUNY, Syracuse).  In 2013, Obesity was introduced as an illness, although technically is not an illness but in order to be reimbursed and studied, it needs this category so the money can flow.  The same thing for alcoholism and other out of control “maneuvers” used to balance ourselves emotionally.  The British started to tackle this problem differently.  The same way I would approach it; the relationship between low educational-social status and obesity.  A year ago the Telegraph published an article where a politician was brave enough to mention the relationship between poverty and obesity:

But what we eat also has a social dimension. You can lead a man to a doughnut, but you can’t make him eat. What is the connection between poverty (relative, not absolute), and the obesity that is unprecedented in history?

When a government minister says something that is not only true but also profoundly discomfiting we are surprised and even shocked, so cynical have we become about the intellectual probity of our political class. Anna Soubry, a junior health minister, is therefore to be congratulated for her truthful but disquieting remarks this week about obesity and its statistical association, in modern Britain, with poverty…

Grossly obese people, who have always existed, were once regarded almost as curiosities, but were well-off rather than poor. Now, in the poorer parts of Britain, where unemployment is an hereditary condition and the state is almost of Soviet predominance in the economy, the obese are often confined by the age of 40 to wheelchairs by their size and immobility.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9821278/Its-not-poverty-thats-fattening-its-the-bad-eating-habits.html

Dr Claire Griffiths, who led the study of 13,333 schoolchildren over three years, said: "Although the prevalence of obesity is higher than desirable across the whole city, it appears that children living in the most deprived and most affluent areas of the city are at the lowest risk, with boys and girls following different patterns.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9864364/Middle-class-children-more-likely-to-be-obese.html

What is the relationship between obesity and triathlon?  The majority of our triathletes in Mexico are obese or overweight.  I do not have numbers, but I have seen competitions in the Mexican Triathlon Circuit.  Let´s play with an analogy:

THE White House has confirmed that US intelligence agencies have been collecting data held by Facebook, Google, Apple and other web giants for nearly six years in a bid to ward off threats to national security.

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/prism-leak/53475/white-house-admits-it-has-access-facebook-google#ixzz2qqeP1GO6

Facebook says:

I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM:

Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. We hadn't even heard of PRISM before yesterday.

When governments ask Facebook for data, we review each request carefully to make sure they always follow the correct processes and all applicable laws, and then only provide the information if is required by law. We will continue fighting aggressively to keep your information safe and secure.

We strongly encourage all governments to be much more transparent about all programs aimed at keeping the public safe. It's the only way to protect everyone's civil liberties and create the safe and free society we all want over the long term.

The problem is not if Facebook gives information or the US government takes it.  The problem is created by people that believe that the internet is for everybody and is possible to write private messages.  Zuckerman knows it and will never write information that could compromise him in any way.  I believe that he does not use a cell phone as the majority of the users.  The lack of experience with this kind of matters and ignorance makes us fall into traps (this is what I would call poverty).  We do not believe that “emotional intelligence” makes people win battles, including the battle against obesity and addictions.  The use of the internet was diverted as well as the use of food.

We have known athletes who had 2% of fat in the body to find out that he was using testosterone to keep it that way.  But we can have a 4% fat without drugs from experience by choosing our food.  Touretsky told me that Popov was winning when the fat folds decreased and that was the way he monitored Popov.