Growing Old Gracefully - POSTED ON: Dec 03, 2017
We start out young. If we stay alive long enough, we get old. Then we die. This is the inescapable truth about Life.
When I think of growing old gracefully, the image of Aunt Bee of Mayberry comes to mind. Aunt Bee’s common and comfortable look was similar to most of the older ladies in my 1950’s childhood world. And I don't know anyone who doesn't love the warm and caring character portrayed as Aunt Bee.
During past times, it seemed to be common knowledge that what was appropriate was....
Young people were to look fresh and trim, ..............and Older people were to be comfortable in their own plump skin, wrinkles and all.
But, Nowadays…. The article below says it really well. Growing Old Gracefully? by Patricia Brozinsky What does it mean to "grow old gracefully?" I recently saw a television commercial which gave me the idea for this article. In the commercial a dermatologist and his wife, a psychotherapist, emphasize that they want to "grow old gracefully" thus explaining the reason they each swallow 25 supplements per day. I don't believe swallowing pills will make us graceful, which is defined as “lithe, agile, dainty, pretty, delicate, handsome and trim”. Thus, their meaning of "growing old gracefully" eluded me. Unless we die young most of us will eventually look old. And, people who look old …. gray haired and wrinkled, gnarled arthritic fingers and toes, bent over from osteoporosis, and because of age-related-slow-metabolism or water retention have gained weight …. are regrettably not considered among the in-group who are "growing old gracefully."
Healthism: the modern religion - POSTED ON: Nov 15, 2017
“Healthism,” is the moral righteousness we attribute to a lifestyle that prioritizes health and fitness over anything else. Put bluntly, healthism involves seeing health as an individual matter, a primary value, and a moral index: basically, "if you get sick, it’s your fault." Health-related social stigma, … unfairly judging the character of ourselves or others based on health status or health choices, … has become a problem within our present culture. “I’m doing this for my health” has become the standard new-age bullshit excuse for whatever dieting or eating behaviors we choose for ourselves. Like, no matter how bizarre that behavior might be, how could any reasonable person ever object to such a Noble Purpose? We make judgment calls based on what we assume health is. We condemn and bless and decide who is with us and who is against us. We cast out the sinners, embrace the saints of Healthism, and preach it on every street corner. In our culture human beings now have the duty to be perceived as “Healthy” individuals. Healthy is the new good. Unhealthy is bad. Celebrities, athletes, and nutrition gurus are our idols and preachers. Fast food places and fat or unhealthy people are our outcasts and enemies. There is nothing wrong with desiring to be healthy. That is a normal wish for a happy life. However, it becomes a problem when we turn being healthy into an obligation … making it a standard that applies to everyone in our culture. Turning health into an obligation, or a standard of morality, belittles people who fail to measure up to the standard of whatever might be considered healthy. Whether or not a person is healthy is NOT something that each of us gets to decide. Some of us are born with disabilities, others with chronic illnesses, others fall sick later in life or have trauma or mental health issues. Most of the people who suffer from these conditions would rather have them gone, but the fact is that many people are forced to live with the fact that … for them … poor health is here to stay. An unhealthy person isn’t always the fat person in a wheelchair that you saw go into McDonalds. Even if it was, how do you KNOW if they are unhealthy because they are fat or if they were born unable to walk and became fat because of it? WHY a person is unhealthy should not matter. THAT a person is unhealthy should not matter. WHAT should matter is that unhealthy people want to live their life just like everyone else, without the added difficulty of having to prove that they are not to blame for their condition. Nowadays, even people born with disabilities are told that they would be better if they just think positive, exercise more or eat differently. Millions of dollars are being made by milking ‘cures’ for conditions like Autism, Down Syndrome etc, even though they are known to be genetic conditions. A diet won’t change a geneti...
Tell Me Lies - POSTED ON: Nov 14, 2017
Video Below: Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac
Manipulating One's Body Size - POSTED ON: Aug 11, 2017
It is very difficult to manipulate one’s body size. Most obese people find this to be a laborious task in the short-term. (short-term = a few years) As a long-term task, it is so eternally grueling that it is almost impossible for most reduced-obese people. (long-term = many years). Weight-loss is HARD. Maintaining weight-loss is HARD. Being fat is HARD.
Everyone, … very thin, normal-weight, over-weight, fat, or super-fat, … has the Right to Choose which HARD they can best manage to live with. I’ve found this past 12+ years of maintaining a very large weight-loss to be a consistently grueling task that has become more difficult each and every year so far. Keeping my reduced-obese body at or near a “normal” size still requires continual ongoing vigilance and sometimes almost super-human willpower. Maintaining weight-loss is the HARD that I am currently choosing, but that doesn’t make me superior to other people who choose to live their lives differently. Here’s an excellent article written from the perspective of someone who has made the choice to Stop Dieting and to Accept and Live With their Body’s Fat. “It’s Not a Diet, It’s a Lifestyle Change” is Bullshit. by Ragen Chastain, danceswithfat
You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. Back in my dieting days - before I did my research - I believed it. The secret to lasting weight loss, they say, is that you can’t go on a diet, you have to make a lifestyle change. This is total, complete, utter bullshit. It’s a lifestyle change alright – you change to a lifestyle where you’re dieting all the time, and it still doesn’t work. One of the big issues that the weight loss industry has created is a world where any weight loss claim said with authority that sounds even remotely plausible is accepted and repeated as proven fact. Even in the world of peer-reviewed research, incredible liberties are given to weight loss research when it comes to not having to support their assumptions with evidence.
Diet Experts & My Opinion - POSTED ON: Aug 07, 2017
I’ve grown weary of the opinions that are stated by all of the various Diet Experts… including those who are in the medical profession. Every single one of them has some type of personal marketing agenda which is designed to provide THEM with money or recognition or both. They want to Help Themselves, by getting me to believe and accept their claim that following their advice will help ME. To make myself clear, when I say, “Weary”, I mean: burnt-out, done-in, fatigued, played-out, spent, tapped-out, tired, wiped-out, worn-out, bored, fed-up, jaded, sick-and-tired, glutted, apathetic, demoralized, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, drained, exhausted, annoyed, exasperated, frustrated, irritated, disgusted, and repulsed. I’m weary of what Diet Experts tell me. Things like:
Often “diet experts” want us to believe there are no restrictions on foods you can eat on their plan. But, there is always a “but”. For their plan to work, …. at least some of the time … we must omit, avoid or restrict at least one of the following:
Diet experts start with claims that appear reasonable, and possibly correct, but then, unsatisfied with simple, basic, and verifiable truths, those “experts” then go on to spout additional information which is based solely on their own individual Pseudo Science beliefs. Even the most knowledgeable medical diet expert tends to express opinions which are ... at the most ... only about 80% Fact, with the remaining 20% merely Guesswork based on wishful thinking. ...
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