Pudgy is Good
The New York Times reports today that following the recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, many people are loading up at buffets to make themselves healthier, i.e. (from their perspective), fatter.Am I the only one who thinks that this is absolutely crazy? One study. One report says that it's okay to be fat (this link is to the International Herald Tribune, which had my favorite title for an article on this issue: Pudgy Is Good). Well, that's enough for Ed Bradish of Fulton, New York:
"'We love that kind of news....The old people used to always tell us that it was better to have a little fat than to be thin,' said Mr. Bradish, a retired school cafeteria worker. 'Now we know it's true.'"
Now we know it's true? (that was bolded AND italicized).
Maybe I'm losing my Core Blog Motivation, as I feel that a rant is in order here, but I simply don't have the energy for it. For those of you disappointed by the lack of a lengthy criticism, keep in mind that blogging is often just about simply referring people to a news story. That's basically what I'm doing here (I don't usually care much for use of the term "basically" but it happened. Apologies).
Note: Bill O'Reilly just lauded the Minutemen for following the "great American tradition of protesting authority" (that's not an actual quote, but rather a paraphrase; I think it's appropriate because it adds effect to the quoting aspect of the paraphrasing). Doesn't he regularly call so-called protesters "pinheads" and such? What an idiot.
posted by PositiveMode @ 7:56 PM
8 Comments:
I don't care if you are healthier!
Nobody wants to get on a lardass...and that is what is really important here.
Sex makes you happy, lack of sex makes you sad. Being fat may reduce the possibility of procuring sex, so thus, being fat makes you unhappy.
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That sort of goes against the maxim that fat people are jolly. Is Santa happy because he's a "poonhound" or because he's fat. It can't possibly be from spreading "joy" in the form of "presents" becuase that's just too much work, and everyone knows that fat people are lazy, lazy and happy.
(That "comment deleted" above was me. I misspelled a word and corrected it with this post. I'm just telling "y'all" because I'm always curious who's commenting and then deleting their own comments. Is it some sick perversion? Nope. Just a spelling error. Sorry sickos.)
Circe is quite right, I think. And that simple logic is nowhere being discussed in the Mainstream coverage of this issue (and not significantly in the Sidestream or Obscurestream from what I can tell).
i can be a bit obsessive about what i eat, and i'm certainly not about to go out and try to make myself pudgy because of this report, but i find it easier to believe that being a little pudgy is healthy than eating only bacon and bbq is good for you, which is basically (sorry, bill) what some people tried to tell me when they went on the atkins diet. in any case, i fully agree that it's worth the effort to try to stay thin if it means a pay off of a more immediate and pleasurable nature.
Santa is fiction. Otherwise, he would be at Weight Watchers or on the Atkins Diet cause Mrs. Claus doesn't want to touch him.
As for those presents, buying affection from children does work..but a sexless marriage where your only pleasure is riding around the world dropping presents down the chimney of greedy little buggers who only love you once a year doesn't sound like a healthy way to live your life.
santa's situation is an exception. he can probably get away with being fat, because he doesn't need to get sex from mrs. clause with all those reindeer around (and since he lives so close to sweden, i assume that getting friendly with your pets is fine as long as no physical or psychological damage is done).
why do you think Rudolph has that red nose? He is the progeny of santa and a reindeer...remember santa has "A nose like a cherry."
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