The global economic crisis that has mired the world since 2008 can’t be that bad as obesity seems to be everywhere on the increase. In 2011 a detailed report by the data agency Eurostat pointed out what we have long unchivalrously known, namely that Britain has the fattest women in Europe.
In the survey of 19 countries, British men were runners-up to tiny Malta, which, with its fatties and the large number of African invaders landing on its shores daily, must be in danger of sliding Atlantis-like into the sea.
(More Obesity Statistics)
The report declared that 24% of British women and 22% of men were classed as obese, and suggested that the UK should be eating five billion fewer calories a day. Since then I suspect that matters have only got worse, but we will have to await a similarly detailed report to find out the true extent of this.
Now, health issues like this are never neutral. They are political footballs, and the Left has been skilful in the past at spinning health issues their way. Obesity, starvation, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and all the other weight problems are typically presented as the result of the dominion of the “evil White oligarchy” with its toxic mix of “racism,” “sexism,” and general all-round nastiness. It is necessary for the Right to accept this implicit challenge and unspin the lies of the Left.
Starting with starvation, although the Left would love to blame any famine in the World on the haves refusing to share with the have-nots, leftist attempts to redistribute food have caused some of the most disastrous famines on the planet, even in places that were once considered bread baskets like the Ukraine and Zimbabwe.
The world’s starvation belt today runs through Africa, and although this was not solely caused by left-wing lunacies, it was probably exacerbated by them. Starting with premature decolonization, we have also seen the genocide and ethnic cleansing of communities of White farmers, statist attempts at economic control, and carpet bombing the area with Western aid – all essentially Leftist initiatives. Without these Africa would still have its problems, but would undoubtedly be better off than it is today.
As for bulimia, anorexia nervosa, or any other eating disorder associated with women, the Left invariably manages to link these to our inherently “sexist” society, with women depicted as poor weak-willed victims (itself a rather sexist caricature) driven to dieting, self-induced vomiting, and voluntary starvation in a desperate attempt to fit the apparent preferences of misogynist males for women who look like they’ve just emerged from a concentration camp. Strange, then, that these illnesses only came into fashion following women’s lib in the 1960s.
Modern western society’s emphasis on pushing women away from the family and into the wider society, where image becomes an issue, as well as the endless pornographization of our culture – both leftist initiatives – seem to be at the heart of these phenomena.
Next: obesity. Traditionally associated with extreme exploitation that enables a parasitical ruling class to feast till it bursts, the Left might have been onto something here – if they had been around in the Babylonian Empire or even Georgian England. But as a modern phenomenon, this is something the Left is not in a position to critique as obesity has their oily fingerprints and stretch marks all over it.
In the USA, it is of course the most welfared demographics – namely Blacks and Red Indians – that suffer the most from this Leftist blessing, but even among the general population the Left’s cultural celebration of low self-esteem and reluctance to criticize and mock no doubt gives fatties yet another reason to supersize, bargain bucket, and pig out.
In the case of the UK, now confirmed as the EU lardass champs, the rise in obesity has been marked. Back in 1980, only 6% of men and 8% of women were obese; twenty years later the figures were both 21%; and today, while male obesity seems to be levelling off, female obesity continues to surge.
A combination of welfare and immigration seems to be the main driver in the UK, with the 1980s marking the establishment of a large underclass of the permanently unemployed, made possible by a combination of neo-liberal deindustrialization, leftist largesse, and waves of immigrant labour to do the jobs abandoned by the underclass.
A YouGov survey from 2010, using average Body Mass Index as the standard of measurement, found that people living in the East Midlands (BMI 28.9) are the fattest in the UK, with Scotland a close second (28.4).
https://www.thefamilygp.com/UK-BMI-map.htm
While Scotland fits very well into the pattern of welfare obesity – it has long had high long-term unemployment and a larger than average percentage of public-sector-generated jobs (many of which can be viewed as merely another form of welfare) – the East Midlands does not. The reason is the large number of South Asians now living in cities like Leicester, where British people are now a minority.
Obesity – along with diabetes – especially affects South Asian women who, in accord with their traditional values, lead relatively inactive lives outside the home, but have had trouble adapting to the high calorie food freely available in the West.
Health data inevitably opens up arguments like this about all manner of things considered taboo in the multicultural state. The absurd way in which government departments skirt around such issues was demonstrated in a 2010 survey by the Department of Health, which claimed that men and women are equally likely to be obese and that there was no obvious connection between obesity and income, despite data to the contrary.
https://www.poverty.org.uk/63/index.shtml
Dividing those surveyed into five equal groups based on household incomes, they found that the percentages of obese people from poorest to richest to be as follows: 23%, 27%, 24%, 22%, and 20%. Although there is a clear downward progression from the 4th richest quintile to the richest one, the poorest group does not fit into this simple scheme, allowing a tenuous claim to be made delinking income and obesity. However, once gender is introduced things become more interesting.
The middle three groups show obesity rates of men and women almost equal. However, the poorest group shows high female obesity with much lower male obesity (28% vs. 18%), while the richest group reverses this pattern (16% for women and 23% for men). This is basically the old-fat-rich-guy-with-young-slim-wife in graph form, something the Department of Health was reluctant to flag up.
The poorest fifth is of course the most welfared group. No doubt many of its members are part of the long-term unemployed. So, why doesn’t it show a higher obesity rate for males? There are a number of reasons for this. Income is traditionally tied to age, with incomes rising as people get older. The poorest group is therefore also probably the youngest and yet to develop its full quota of obesity. Some of them may also be low-paid, hard-working immigrants (Eastern Europe), or recent waves of ‘refugees’ (Third World) who are still at or near their entry weight, although this is sure to change. Another factor is smoking, which is particularly effective in counteracting weight gain and which is much higher among poor working class Whites.
In its essence obesity is a symptom of dislocation that is caused by left-wing policies: Blacks and Red Indians on White guilt welfare; South Asian housewives unable to deal with the land of plenty; the White working class turned into a welfare class or employed in public-sector-financed sinecure desk jobs that leave plenty of time for snacking; all backed up by an indulgent culture where “Black is beautiful,” “gay is good,” “fat is fabulous,” and anybody who trains like a Spartan is a Nazi.
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Good article Mr Liddell.
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It is quite funny in that when you become nationalistically minded, it opens up some kind of third eye of clues or possible problems with the mainstream narrative, which otherwise might pass people by.
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Although I have had not carried out any particular study of evidence to support my suspicions on a lot of such things we are told, I had suspected, for example, that the much trumpted rise in (or doubling of) diabetes in the UK has more to it than we are superficially being told and shown to be the driving factor.
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When it is reported on the news, it is often depicted with video footage of overweight whites waddling down the street.
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I think it is highly likely to be seeing an increase in overweight people of this description for various reasons – but considering that the Asian demographic has doubled in recent decades, I think the rates of diabetes (of which they are multiple times more genetically and culturally prone) are bound to double along with it.
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This is never really mentioned. (Leaving the listener or viewer with the idea that it must be those lazy, fat, porky whites who are to blame, yet again!)
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Another study a few years ago related to weights and gestation times of new borns. We were told that “as a nation” we are seeing this change and that change, which therefore needed this change and that change to occur in that field of care.
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The same was for another one relating to very early puberty – where “we as a nation” are seeing it arrive earlier and earlier.
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Did the indigenous population suddenly (ie, rapidly in evolutionary terms) suddenly start to transform, knocking medical professionals for six with a mystery?…..Or is it, as I suspect, that these things are changing because of the non-White surge in maternity units and the renowned earlier publity of Blacks pushing the figures much more quickly off their traditional courses?
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I would also tend think that many of that latter group are prone to be overweight. But we are told that we ought not to “collectivise” and that everybody is an individual case…..
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Another onset of “modernity” might be the prevalence of the 24-hour lifestyle and self absorbed ways of life now led by society.
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People are forever “grazing” instead of having regular meals, being pushed for both time and lazy convenience. I believe that even as recently as the 1950’s everything stopped for lunch – and Winston Churchill (like him or loathe him) was a great fan of upholding this tradition.
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Another piece of ‘liberal’ transformation therefore, via immigration and cultural habits, is noting how virtually every street in town and city centers are festooned with kebab takeaways, halal fried chicken wings, pizzas, burgers, or whatever. My own town is choc-a-bloc with them, or so it seems.
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In London, a recent documentary showing the daily grind of one such place showed a customer base for fried chicken and other junk food which was disproportionately black. Although demographics may have forced that by default, I suspect that there is a higher proportion of Black youths hanging around those places than white youths, well, those who are not “whiggers” anyway.
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When the media speaks of poor school diets, with even ideas of closing fast-food places down at school lunch times to help with this supposed “epidemic” of obesity…..just who might they really be targetting with it, especially when the media is so often London-centric in its issues?
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It does get you suspicious, even if it may be an unfounded suspicion.
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Once again, it might be down to group dynamics altering the figures and the way society is shaped – quite literally.
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There may be exceptions to the rule, but in the case of gestation times, puberty, diabetes two, even mental illness rates in society, they all tend to have a genetic pattern to them which is historically different to the European peoples.
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Some times it is hard to know what to make of things, especially if we are not studiers of medical science papers and so on, but having that third eye open to the possibilities of other explanations (to what the media offer us) can be quite useful.
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Interesting observations. The only thing I would like to add is that in Modern Britain, poor quality foods are cheaper than high quality foods – an obvious point – but those poor quality foods are just as calorific, they just contain the wrong types of calories and are therefore more likely to lead to weight-gain. Poor working class people can pick up value chips and biscuits for less than they can pick up the equivalent calories in the form of nuts, organic meat and vegetables.
Not that I would excuse obesity for a moment. In my view it is a perfect demonstration of the brow-beaten inner spirit of once-proud Saxons, Angles, Picts and Brythons. Many of our people simply no longer have any pride – in themselves or their nation. Life to them is like the mundane waiting room for the relief of death – complete with TV channels and magazines to browse so that the time passes quicker. The man and woman who strives for continuous self-betterment is viewed as some kind of fool, wasting their energy, because in most cases it is not rewarded. Such is the mindset of a society which rewards ignorance, laziness and materialism.
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Having recently returned from a fortnight in Malta and Sicily, I would never have thought that the Maltese ( a naturally smallish people) were fatter than we Brits! At least their women (and the Sicilians) are mercifully free from the ugly disfigurement of tramp stamps (tattoos).
Someone once remarked that it used to be the case, for fairly obvious reasons, that rich people were fat and poor people thin, now the reverse is true.