It was hot yesterday. Found myself driving home from Mass. to Maine late in the day. Stopped at a rest stop on the Maine Turnpike. Walking in, I passed an obese mother with her son - maybe 5 or 6. He was already obese. What are his chances in life.?
Walking out, I passed a morbidly obese man laboring just to walk. He looked at me with sad recognition - "I know I'm fat, and I don't know what the hell to do about it."
A smart guy I know told me years ago that "inside every fat person there's a thin person struggling to get out." I believe this.
In our culture we judge the obese because it absolves us of any responsibility. These people, we tell ourselves, are slothful and self-indulgent. All they need to do is stop eating so much and start working out.
Wrong.
The true culprits are as follows. 1.) A food industry whose chief interest is profit - hence an endless flood of cheap carbs and adulterated fats - in short a horrible diet. 2.) A government whose bogus food pyramid reinforces this horrible diet. 3.) An indifferent and greedy medical/ scientific establishment. 4.) A zombie public whose main interests are cheap food and convenience.
Some day the truth will come out. High quality fats from pastured animals and fresh vegetables from local farms is pretty much all we need to live, and thrive, on. Until then, we'll just keep sickening and killing off our people, one person at a time, one day at a time. In the meantime, we drive the country into bankruptcy and permanent second class status.
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