I’ve just finished reading the rather interesting, if quite long, article called The way we eat now. It’s all about the increasingly alarming ‘fat’ epidemic hitting the USA. It’s from the harvard magazine so it’s from the American perspective. If you’ve got a free half-hour I’d recomend it as an informative read, if you don’t have half an hour free, well make time damnit, its not like reading this is mega important!
Anyway, one of my thoughts from reading this is that the general British and European opinion which goes along the general lines of ‘Yeah fat Americans, they deserve what they get’. This opinion is worryingly short sighted, simply for the reason that the figures seem to point out that we are rapidly following the same road to potential disaster.
I am in a fortunate position in that I don’t have any kind of health problem, and neither do any of my friends (and coincidentaly the majority of my readers…:P ) but it’s still something that I find concerning for the general population.
Live healthy people, it may not be cool in some cases, but then again neither is being really, really fat.
p.s. No spam today, I’m trying not to get my hopes up too early.
shockingly scary….i sat here reading the whole thing with wide eyes and a straight face….really makes you think…very informative Rob :)….i do like how McDonald calls their fat full kids meal ‘A Happy Meal’ even though it will probably kill kids before they hit middle age…
oohh just got your email Rob….so, here you go…’RANDOM COMMENT’
Hehe, well it looks like I didn’t need to ask, but that’d good.
So woo, looks like this anti-spam code thingie is holding up for the minute, which is a relief!
Glad you were as shocked as I was about the article, much interest too thought I think. We don’t have anything to worry about, you with your broccoli and me with my sensible personality… 🙂
even if you went crazy and had…i dunno…TWO hot chocolates or something..you would still keep your skim figure..you are one of those annoyingly lucky (but nice!) people who can eat anything and still remain in good shape….damn you! hehe 🙂
slim*
Well, the way i eat, i should be the size of a house (i’m sure Rob would back that up having witnessed my endless Wetherspoon "eye-is-bigger-than-belly" adventures), but i’m currently lucky enough to be a slim build sexy beast (Rob may not back that one up).
However, I can’t help but think, someday when we get to the thirties maybe, we’ll become fat bloaters overnight just for having that kit-kat with afternoon tea.
Until then, hey, i’m still a love machine…?!
Well I was going to post something similar to what Pete did… so… er… *Twiddles thumbs* Going to be rather cold tonight I hear
Well I too seem to be blessed with a fairly fast metabolism, although I’m still pretty damn sensible about what I eat most of the time.
I guess it’s because, well firstly eating healthy is never a bad thing, and also when things start slowing down in later life I won’t need any kind of lifestyle change. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of other things to worry about without having to try and change my diet at the same time…
Damn I’m sensible… well most of the time anyway.