Overweight, obese, let’s call the whole thing off
I saw Penn and Teller’s TV Show Bullshit and it had an interesting view on things as it always does. The show spoke about overweight/obesity and the bullshits surrounding the terms. As someone that has always been annoyingly thin, it spoke to me, not really but since I’m always wary of what big business says is right for me. One idea that came to me is that being overweight or obese is not unhealthy in itself but the big business surrounding weight maybe a cause in trying to be thin as the media tries to make everyone feel like they’re fat. Maybe the root cause to be wary of if the fat laden foods that are so prevalent. I live in Japan and even here you’ll see an overweight person but the Japanese are less prone to the health problems you’ll find in the U.S.. The Japanese had health scares in the past due to weight loss schemes that caused people to die, those schemes came from China. But I believe in Chinese medicine, they had thousands of years of practice but greed is the cause of death everywhere. Japanese loved to smoke, you used to be able to light a cigarette in the bank, but cancer is less common here than in the west. The diet is different and maybe some of the foods need to be more common.
