Research on AD 36

I want to post some of the articles I've been reading. Here are a few, along with some interesting information from them.

61% of people in the US are classified overweight to obese now. And funnily enough it is spreading FROM the east coast to the west. Spreding? That does sound like an infectious disease, doesn't it?

Why did it start there?

I was thinking outloud last night and heard myself say "Viruses mutate all the time. That's what they do. And viruses cross to humans from animals all the time too. HIV, Hanta virus, monkey pox, coxpox, Ebola, Influenza A, Lassa, Junin on and on. I watched that PETA documentary, and here were these chickens that were so grossly obese that their legs broke out from under them. What if this spread to humans from our lovely fat chickens? And nobody cared that the chickens were getting fat because it was good for business." I was just ruminating-and Tony was watching the fights.

Read this article I found this morning. Ask the question, find the answer, remember? Could Fat be Catching? ...CHICKENS! In Bombay. The chickens died nice and plump though-with enlarged livers and kidneys. Now, they did slaughter those chickens, and no one is saying that our chickens here are infected. MY speculation was totally science fiction. But, we do know that the virus started in chickens, or at least we first noticed it in chickens.

But isn't it funny how concerned the Infectious Disease people were about the AVIAN flu-which is an adenovirus that we can get from birds-mostly caught by chicken pluckers, right? And they were alerting us because we "might could" catch it if it mutated.

Well, what about this virus? 30% of the fat people test positive, PLUS 10% of the thin people. So that means, 40% of those tested are postiive for it. That's a HUGE amount of the population if that is a fair random sampling. If 40% of us caught avian flu wouldnt' that be a disease epidemic?

We have an epidemic of diabetes, we have an epidemic of high blood pressure, we have an epidemic of obesity but we don't want to think that it could actually be caused by an infectious disease? Isn't that a little "head in the ass" thinking?