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The USA president George Bush appealed EU countries with request to buy the genetically modified farm products in order to help the starving people in Africa. Certainly, there are no evidences that such products are unhealthy, otherwise they would have been prohibited.But I would like to share my opinion with regards to this matter.
No doubts, money-making is US's cup of tea, but why should we do bidding and take the risks of our health.
For example, noone will run the risks of his Mercedes if even Bush offers to substitute a chemical mixture for the petroleum. If Bush offers this, it means that the project is of great profit for the USA, it is understandable for all of us.
But if the motor of your Mercedes is broken, will you bring an action against Bush?!
Have a look at the Europeans of Americans - how many people are overweight?
Have a look at the Africans - how wins the Olympiads?
What kind of foot do they eat? Do they eat anything else except for natural products, grown in the fields without any chemical or biological technologies interference?
Now think over, what you will say to your child when in 20-30 years your child starts suffering plenty of diseases - will you say that once upon a time uncle Bush existed and suggested such products or that you grudged buying the expensive but natural products for your child but you undoubtedly did not grudge petroleum for your Mercedes instead of a new but cheap American chemical pee?
According to the data of the World Health Organization, the developed European countries have about 45-70% of citizens, suffering the overweight. Nowadays, the adiposity is one of the most widespread chronic diseases - today this pathology gets the character of the global epidemy, drawing in nearly all the countries and peoples.
The sad record for this "disease of the century" is registered in the USA - in the country - which is a developer and introducer of hamburgers - the fatness is already the main national calamity
Today about 2/3 of adults suffer the fattiness and about 400 thousands of Americans die from diseases caused by the overweighting. And this number is steadily growing despite the fact that the most of 28 thousands of the world-wide spread and approved diets were worked out in the USA. The American physicians foresee that the epidemy of fatness will be developing and growing with the same speed and that in 25 years the whole population (!) will be overweight.
As to Europe, the number of persons, suffering fatness is no less than in the USA - minimum 7 European countries might challenge the leadership of the USA in this point. The frequency of this disease among adults varies from 22 to 28 %. Strangely enough but the problem is more actual in the warm countries of the continent - like Italy, Spain and Portugal, while the percentage of fat persons in northern countries, like Scandinavian countries, is somehow lower.
Cyprus and Malta, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece and Slovakia state that about 2/3 of male citizens of these countries have overweight - the index is very close to the American statistics. The Greek women pass even ahead of American women - 38% with adiposity against 34%. American children are real record-holders for overweight registers. As a result, the number of children with diabetes increased 9 times and every second American child runs the risks of cardiovascular diseases.
This is the information to think over and to make conclusions.
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