getting out of hand
C.D.C. Team Investigates an Outbreak of Obesity - New York Times
seriously, i’m all for being healthy. i made big changes to my lifestyle to get more healthy (not that it’s paying any dividends because of the unhealthy parts of my life that counterbalance any gains i’ve made), but this is stupid. obesity “outbreak” quit eating high-fat, high-sugar foods, exercise. wow, what a terribly hard formula! regardless of some people’s predisposition to obesity (can’t be that many people unless there’s some sort of evolutionary change where the species as a whole is becoming more obese, but since it’s just america, maybe we can be a subspecies) or addicitive behavior, those things don’t account for the entire upswing in obesity. this is probably the thing that bothers me most about health/science news, how obesity is treated and viewed. it’s no longer the obese person’s fault EVER. wtf with that? hey i know the mcdonald’s is cheaper, faster, and in a lot of ways tastier (at least to your brain which loves the high fat high sugar foods), but don’t eat it so much. where is personal responsibility gone?
i can tell you, i don’t eat a lot of high fat high sugar foods anymore. the other day we had a big meeting at work, so they bought breakfast platters (fruit platter, pastries platter). i had some fruit and a cheese danish. i can say that the cheese danish, a regular cheese danish, was too sweet. never used to have a problem with cheese danish, but now too sweet and made me a little nauseated (ha, the correct use of the word, not nauseous, even though so much misuse that it’s acceptable now).
i don’t know, i know it’s more complex than that, but at the end of the day it’s basically calories in vs calories out. yes you want to watch fat and sugar etc, but it’s in versus out. just like the stock market. SO complex. what to buy, when, etc. but at the end of the day it’s really a matter of buy low sell high. hah.
