eat "food", not too much, mostly plants. "food".. meaning that which has nutrients necessary to sustain health, not whatever it is that happens to be available, convenient and shoved into your mouth to please you.
every time i hear people talk about our national health care problems i think of a certain piece of genius that michael pollan wrote several years ago for the new york times concerning "unhappy meals". our national health care is obviously a hot topic, everyone talks about it, especially the ones who are sick all the time...why we need a better plan, free universal medical care, etc, etc, etc. people are under insured, not insured, medicine is too expensive...and far too many americans are "sick" with something or other and, of course, they want the government to do something about it.
now, what if the "government" came back and said "listen, we are not going to be held responsible for your actions, your ridiculously poor food choices, your lack of any sort of common sense, your refusal to educate yourselves on proper human nutrition or your disgusting self indulgence". "if you people want to continue on like this, feeding yourselves and your children the most unhealthiest non foods you can possible eat, loading yourselves up on cheeseballs and chocolate donuts, bags and boxes of crap, diseased and fat saturated processed animal parts and by products...all that which is causing a national epidemic of sickness and disease, eating nothing that provides the basic nutrients to sustain good health...then you're on your own.
a health care system cannot function properly when it is constantly over burdened with the massive amounts of people with their self inflicted diseases and illnesses wanting assistance for their medical expenses.
i suppose if you're going to eat crap all your life you should just make sure you have really good medical insurance and live next door to the hospital.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all&pagewanted=all
every time i hear people talk about our national health care problems i think of a certain piece of genius that michael pollan wrote several years ago for the new york times concerning "unhappy meals". our national health care is obviously a hot topic, everyone talks about it, especially the ones who are sick all the time...why we need a better plan, free universal medical care, etc, etc, etc. people are under insured, not insured, medicine is too expensive...and far too many americans are "sick" with something or other and, of course, they want the government to do something about it.
now, what if the "government" came back and said "listen, we are not going to be held responsible for your actions, your ridiculously poor food choices, your lack of any sort of common sense, your refusal to educate yourselves on proper human nutrition or your disgusting self indulgence". "if you people want to continue on like this, feeding yourselves and your children the most unhealthiest non foods you can possible eat, loading yourselves up on cheeseballs and chocolate donuts, bags and boxes of crap, diseased and fat saturated processed animal parts and by products...all that which is causing a national epidemic of sickness and disease, eating nothing that provides the basic nutrients to sustain good health...then you're on your own.
a health care system cannot function properly when it is constantly over burdened with the massive amounts of people with their self inflicted diseases and illnesses wanting assistance for their medical expenses.
i suppose if you're going to eat crap all your life you should just make sure you have really good medical insurance and live next door to the hospital.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all&pagewanted=all
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