I agree it's very difficult to convince the general public that they need to be concerned about something that's 100 or 1000 years off.
How about something that's -1 year off? 2005 being the hottest year on record? Record storm season? Glaciers melting at a record rate all over the place? Severe or record droughts in some places? We're not talking if, or when, but how fast now. The basic question these days is, how quickly will the climate change occur, what economic impact it will have, and how to mitigate it.
Just being sarcastic:)
There's a lot of suspicious looking bodies all around me - I'm a gym rat and marathoner who likes to run on the beach.
Oh, and I forgot steroids...
People take the easy way out everywhere, and they find reasons to justify it. In the end, it's a matter of priorities.
Yes there is. Plastic surgery. Did you see the numbers on plastic surgery growth rates? Staggering. A buddy stayed at a large hotel in town that has the top 3 floors reserved for recovering patients from the plastic surgery clinic next door. Ah well, this is California. 99% liposuction and boob jobs, I'm sure.
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That's not what our bodies were designed for.
I hope that's a lapse and you meant to say "have evolved for". Otherwise I'd have to ask if they were designed intelligently or not.
It boils down to knowledge, i.e. education. Eating less is not the answer to reaching/maintaining a healthy weight, it is eating right, which may very well entail eating more (bulk, mass, even calories.)
It is well known in the fitness community that eating 3 times a day isn't good for you. 5 or 6 times is the right thing to do (after all, we evolved from grazing savannah-dwellers who ate as muach as they could, all day [Insert obligatory ID joke here.]) No, that does not mean 5 or 6 Big Macs a day, it means low caloric density food and anything that slows down digestion (fiber, complex carbs, [good] protein, [good] fat) to give you a constant stream of nutrients during the day and keep your metabolism up. Problem solved. No blood sugar/other nutrient swings, no hunger, no binges. You may very well have to force yourself to eat (I do.) No sugar or white breads (except right before/during/after exercise, if you're into that), no junk proteins, no bad fats. Simple as that.
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I once dated a woman who did marketing research for a major food manufacturer. She ran the actual experiments. Certain stores were selected for specific demographics depending on the products, then given an incentive to arrange the product(s) in a certain way/in a specific place, or they'd send somebody out to do the rearranging. The results were tracked based on revenue and broken down by customer demographics based on the club cards. This wasn't just done per product but for permutations of product (the corn flakes on the left of the granola or on the right, or next to the raisin bran, and at which shelf level? At what price and discount level?)
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How about something that's -1 year off? 2005 being the hottest year on record? Record storm season? Glaciers melting at a record rate all over the place? Severe or record droughts in some places? We're not talking if, or when, but how fast now. The basic question these days is, how quickly will the climate change occur, what economic impact it will have, and how to mitigate it.
Ralf-Peter
Just being sarcastic :)
There's a lot of suspicious looking bodies all around me - I'm a gym rat and marathoner who likes to run on the beach.
Oh, and I forgot steroids...
People take the easy way out everywhere, and they find reasons to justify it. In the end, it's a matter of priorities.
Yes there is. Plastic surgery. Did you see the numbers on plastic surgery growth rates? Staggering. A buddy stayed at a large hotel in town that has the top 3 floors reserved for recovering patients from the plastic surgery clinic next door. Ah well, this is California. 99% liposuction and boob jobs, I'm sure.
I hope that's a lapse and you meant to say "have evolved for". Otherwise I'd have to ask if they were designed intelligently or not.
It boils down to knowledge, i.e. education. Eating less is not the answer to reaching/maintaining a healthy weight, it is eating right, which may very well entail eating more (bulk, mass, even calories.)
It is well known in the fitness community that eating 3 times a day isn't good for you. 5 or 6 times is the right thing to do (after all, we evolved from grazing savannah-dwellers who ate as muach as they could, all day [Insert obligatory ID joke here.])
No, that does not mean 5 or 6 Big Macs a day, it means low caloric density food and anything that slows down digestion (fiber, complex carbs, [good] protein, [good] fat) to give you a constant stream of nutrients during the day and keep your metabolism up. Problem solved. No blood sugar/other nutrient swings, no hunger, no binges. You may very well have to force yourself to eat (I do.)
No sugar or white breads (except right before/during/after exercise, if you're into that), no junk proteins, no bad fats. Simple as that.
I once dated a woman who did marketing research for a major food manufacturer. She ran the actual experiments. Certain stores were selected for specific demographics depending on the products, then given an incentive to arrange the product(s) in a certain way/in a specific place, or they'd send somebody out to do the rearranging. The results were tracked based on revenue and broken down by customer demographics based on the club cards. This wasn't just done per product but for permutations of product (the corn flakes on the left of the granola or on the right, or next to the raisin bran, and at which shelf level? At what price and discount level?)
But would this be a viable model for commercial software?