I was just pondering this as I entered the YMCA to go exercise on Monday:
What weirdos we are!
I know that the Young Men’s Christian Association has existed for some time. I know the Roman’s had their bathing houses and men were trained for war, etc, but what time are we living in that we have to schedule in time to exercise so that we don’t get fat?! I was thinking about my time of seclusion in this house in the snow, I have to tell myself to run around the house and then the rest of the time I sit to read, sit to write, sit to type, and sit to watch TV. Bleh. We--sorry there are crazies out there-- I don’t DO anything. Blah.
Why are dieticians so surprised that there is a surplus of morbidly obese people? People have been eating (and enjoying) doughnuts for generations. People have been cooking with lard and cream for centuries; those people (often) just had more movement in their lives. Now you take away a feeling of purpose in peoples lives, remove them from a community, give them images to lust after and depress over the realization they can never have that body, give them quick meals, cars, desk jobs, OF COURSE, PEOPLE are GOING to get FAT!
I don’t know that the causes of obesity have actually grown, I think the results have just been able to show themselves easier. Plus, MOST Americans, now, do not have to struggle for their next meal. That helps.
Then again, we have a “backwards” culture in that the rich are thin and the poor are fat. (But, our poor are actually "richer" -- in closer reach -- to life sustaining supplies than a great part of the world's poor.)
The actual point: we now need to SCHEDULE exercise into our lives. We choose to PAY for memberships. People have created multiples of exercise companies knowing that the American population will flock to use them. Just so weird. Our lives are such that we PAY to use our bodies. haha
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