Blast over £470,000 spent on obesity drugs

See the future now!

And while you are at it, get a load of what they think of us Americans.

The diet recommendations in the article are a bit naive.

The point is and always will be Calories In, Calories Out.

And speaking of out, let's out more truth.

Do you really think that people and industries whose income is based on your illness want you well? Do you think, as our politicians do, that "health care" will improve by tossing more money at the system or paying providers less or whatever?

If you do, you are making a compelling argument in favor of getting yourself committed.

Politicians get elected by appealing to the largest number of voters. Their goal is to reach the lowest common denominator. Their method is the promise without accountability. You cannot sue a politician for lying to the public with false campaign promises.

How convenient.

To quote Harold Pinter from his recent and controversial acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, "Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory [of the artist] since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."

And too many Calories, too.

The only way to improve sick care, for that is what it is, is to enter it as fit as you possibly can and as infrequently as possible so your chances of survival are maximized.

Anything else is just plain dumb.