Half of US will be obese by 2030: Report

 As the obesity epidemic continues to escalate, a new study projects that half of the US will be obese by 2030 unless measures to stifle, monitor and prevent obesity are adopted into public policy.

Currently, one in three American adults is obese, with 99 million cases reported. According to a new study published in a US magazine, obesity is projected to include half of the US population by 2030 if current trends continue.

While forecasts show that obesity is on the rise, researchers from Columbia University used data from the past four decades with qualitative trends taken into account.

The study showed that 164 million Americans will be obese within the next two decades along with an additional 8 million cases of diabetes, 6.8 million cases of heart disease and stroke, and a half-million cases of cancer to be reported.

 ”At the rate we re looking at right now, it s a dire prediction,” told Claire Wang, of Columbia University.

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Little has been publicly spoken of their split, or their working relationship. Yet, between the two – Salim and Javed, creators of the ‘70s ‘Angry Young Man’, best-known screenwriters in Bollywood’s history – it is said, Salim Khan was a master scenarist. Javed, supposedly, wrote the wonderful lines. Salim dreamt up the massiveness of the movie. Javed took care of the intimacy of moments.

Salman Khan is screenwriter Salim’s eldest son. He’s also the credited writer of this film. You can instantly tell where Salman gets his ‘ginormous’ sense of cinematic grandeur from.

It’s all big game in here. Warring armies, even with computer-generated images, stretch out into miles. Palaces, and their Renaissance frescos, capture entirely the 70 mm screen. The horse conveniently chases a running train as the hero catches for the first time his heroine’s eyes. Those silent eyes coincidentally meet again: at a London college, at a posh party…. Of course the two are in love. Theirs is a romance between a princess and a commoner, which exponentially degenerates later into an unspoken, inexplicable love between a girl and a warrior who’s murdered her brother, is thirsty for her father’s blood. The dad (Jackie Shroff) wears a golden hand, not very different from Sir Juda in Himesh’s Karz!

The hero belongs to some barbaric tribe called Pindari that lost its land to a British conspiracy. The tribe would like its land back. They believe educating one of them to the British ways in London might help them win this war. This Veer (Salman) wanders the streets of London, with his sidekick (Sohail, as usual, playing the fool). The sidekick’s struck by the architecture of the Empire. “Even our makbaras (tombs) look better,” the hero shoots back. “Haven’t you seen Taj Mahal?” He later attributes the filth and general lack of hygiene in India (once “sone ki chidiya”) to the British as well. Racist goras assert to the public the white man’s civilising mission. Veer decodes in detail the divide and rule policy of our colonial masters.

Jingoism is complete. As it should be. Except, we’re not sure who it’s directed against. This isn’t the natives’ war in a freedom struggle. It’s a random, manic hand-combat against a random princely state, where Salamander snatches out live flesh, breaks sword from its middle. The year is 1920, a little dated for the weaponry.

Bollywood itself officially split into two in the late ‘90s. Bhojpuri and other regional cinema replaced the NRI / multiplex movies in small-town theatres. *Wanted*, the Salman hit (last year) proved there was much still to be made if Mumbai’s filmmakers merely kept SEC C audiences of a semi-urban North India satisfied. They prefer their films about honour before self, to be simple and spoon-fed.

In that sense, this apparent period film owes its origins less to the genre Hollywood movies. It belongs more to Bollywood of back in the day: a song designated for smokers every few minutes; crispness, hardly a narrative virtue; three hours, the accepted clock-time. And yet in trying so hard to win acclaim and scale, the film goes all over the place – *Gladiator, Troy, Braveheart* - complicating matters for its easy viewers.

About 9th September 2009 l 090909 l 9/9/9 l 9 9 9

There are some strange associations with 090909 if you look around … A quick Google search will find all of the marketing strategies to evil in the world and in the meeting of foreign and predictions of the assassination of Obama!

What else?

It represents the latest round of repeated, single-digit dates for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium (January 1, 3001), depending on how you counted.
The last of the single-digit dates for the next 92 years.
Historically, the ancient Chinese emperors, was now connected with the number nine, who figured prominently in the architecture and the royal robes, often in the form of nine dragons feared. The imperial dynasty was so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex in Beijing’s Forbidden City story building with 9999 rooms.
Same day falls on a Wednesday in September … Both Wednesday and 9 September, letters.
In Japanese, the word nine is a homonym of the word for suffering, so the number is considered a very bad luck – second only to four, which sounds like death.
According numerologists, according to final figures, the number nine has a special status and is associated with forgiveness, compassion, and success on the positive side and the arrogance and self-righteousness in the negative.