Benjiman Franklin was obese, he was wealthy enough to afford to get that way. Does this meanhis friends got fat, or is contray data excluded from the study? Or maybe the statistics only applyt to the time frame they were measured agains? or maybe just the sector used for the profile? Or maybe the whole study was just BS to stir up controversy?
Comparing those graphs might have some measure of validity, but put this along side the changes in the entertainment across our country also.
In the 60's indoor entertainment consisted of mediocre TV, Card and board games, Reading, a few other things, but not much to keep kids from going outside and playing or doing things that required physical activity. Between then and now we have progressively gotten more and more sedentary entertainment. How many gaming systems are in th eaverage american home, how many computers with games on them, and the sheer number of movies is high enough that you could live in front of your TV and never watch the same thing twice. Our foods are becoming increasingly processed, increasing the amount of unprocessible ingredients that our bodies have to store in fat cells until we can clean them out. Just look at butter, we "advanced" to margerine (fake butter), then advanced to imitation margerine (fake fake) and in some cases knock-offs of the imitation. Cost of living goes up disproportionate to income, nothng new. But the entertainment budget consumes a larger portion of the average budget so people buy what food they can afford out of what is left. The easy food to get is the food that is not healthy and it is natural to gravitate to the path of least resistance and the point of least effort. Lastly, with activity lower and work environments and entertainment becoming more sedentary, neurotic behavior kicks in. The body knows it needs to do something, so generally speaking we give it something to do, we munch on chips. 1 handful is a full serving, but we eat the whole bag. We consume more junk food and exercise less. Our kids grow up in front of a screen TV, Computer, handheld or portable. Our kids text instead of even talking, learning a shorthand language so they do not even need to know how to spell real words. We are loosing our work ethics, we are loosing our drive for real life success and with that we are sitting by and letting our rights and freedoms slowly be washed away with government rules and laws telling us more adn more of what we can no longer do. We sit back blabbering about the weakness of our neighbors and what they are doing wrong, wihle our freedom of speach is slowly being stripped away. Our focus is being targetted on each other so we don't realize we have lost the right to complain about overbearing government practices. We point out how bad our neighbor is as we loose our rights to defend ourselves against government oppression. We are busy argueing over distraction while our right to pray in silence is taken away in public places replacing freedom of religion with freedom to oppress each others religion. There was a time that it was required to learn to speak and read at least a minimal amount of american english to become a citizen inthis country, but as the meaning of the forming of our nation gets washed away withour rights, what difference does it make if we can or can not communicate with each other.
I wonder how many will actually read this. It may be too long for most of our blurb society.
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Benjiman Franklin was obese, he was wealthy enough to afford to get that way. Does this meanhis friends got fat, or is contray data excluded from the study? Or maybe the statistics only applyt to the time frame they were measured agains? or maybe just the sector used for the profile? Or maybe the whole study was just BS to stir up controversy?
Comparing those graphs might have some measure of validity, but put this along side the changes in the entertainment across our country also.
In the 60's indoor entertainment consisted of mediocre TV, Card and board games, Reading, a few other things, but not much to keep kids from going outside and playing or doing things that required physical activity.
Between then and now we have progressively gotten more and more sedentary entertainment. How many gaming systems are in th eaverage american home, how many computers with games on them, and the sheer number of movies is high enough that you could live in front of your TV and never watch the same thing twice.
Our foods are becoming increasingly processed, increasing the amount of unprocessible ingredients that our bodies have to store in fat cells until we can clean them out. Just look at butter, we "advanced" to margerine (fake butter), then advanced to imitation margerine (fake fake) and in some cases knock-offs of the imitation.
Cost of living goes up disproportionate to income, nothng new. But the entertainment budget consumes a larger portion of the average budget so people buy what food they can afford out of what is left. The easy food to get is the food that is not healthy and it is natural to gravitate to the path of least resistance and the point of least effort.
Lastly, with activity lower and work environments and entertainment becoming more sedentary, neurotic behavior kicks in. The body knows it needs to do something, so generally speaking we give it something to do, we munch on chips. 1 handful is a full serving, but we eat the whole bag. We consume more junk food and exercise less. Our kids grow up in front of a screen TV, Computer, handheld or portable. Our kids text instead of even talking, learning a shorthand language so they do not even need to know how to spell real words.
We are loosing our work ethics, we are loosing our drive for real life success and with that we are sitting by and letting our rights and freedoms slowly be washed away with government rules and laws telling us more adn more of what we can no longer do. We sit back blabbering about the weakness of our neighbors and what they are doing wrong, wihle our freedom of speach is slowly being stripped away. Our focus is being targetted on each other so we don't realize we have lost the right to complain about overbearing government practices. We point out how bad our neighbor is as we loose our rights to defend ourselves against government oppression. We are busy argueing over distraction while our right to pray in silence is taken away in public places replacing freedom of religion with freedom to oppress each others religion. There was a time that it was required to learn to speak and read at least a minimal amount of american english to become a citizen inthis country, but as the meaning of the forming of our nation gets washed away withour rights, what difference does it make if we can or can not communicate with each other.
I wonder how many will actually read this. It may be too long for most of our blurb society.