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2022-07-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-15 03:18|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 No need to worry here. With electronic currency the EV attitude will be applied. Every purchase will be approved. Every trip will be pre-planned and authorized. You want to purchase anything for example you will scrutinized. Your LDL is too high you can't have that. You are allowed three potato chips with your four insects. Your alarm wakes you up and you are directed to walk three miles to begin your day. You have sat too long at your computer and it shuts off. Then at a moment of desire you are directed to avoid such activity. Snack and die early doesn't sound so bad.

Posted by Dale 2022-07-15 06:48|| 2022-07-15 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe if individual people were taught impulse control, delayed gratification and personal responsibility, there would be no need for an external, gummint-imposed framework of lifestyle micromanagement.

But, where's the graft in that? And it would be rayciss...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-15 06:51|| 2022-07-15 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe if individual people ~~were~~ [could be] taught impulse control

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-15 07:59|| 2022-07-15 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 some of which I couldn’t pronounce

There is no trope more annoying than "I can't pronounce it, it must be bad". Look at the chemical breakdown of what's in an "organjc" tomato someday -- plenty of "unpronounceable" chemicals in there.

(And when did "conservatives" become the health cops? The other side of liberty is minding your own business.)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-15 08:37|| 2022-07-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I hadn't seen the anti-vaccination and anti-electricity parts of the rant. What a load of horseshit.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-15 08:39|| 2022-07-15 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Note well, we have lived in a very narrow and unique period of human history when food was both readily available and accessible. This condition has lasted more than two or three generations now. The human body has evolved over thousands of years and its adaptation doesn't move that fast. The Navajo have been the canary in the cage in this case and its manifestation is now appearing in the population as a whole. Up till recently they survived in a very barren environment. Their bodies were adapted to extract every possible nutrient out of any food they could get. Now they suffer in general with diabetes and obesity. Two reasons they suffered disproportionately in the initial COVID wave.

Given the incompetency rampant in government these days, it looks like the rest of us are about to return to more basic dietary menus.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-15 08:52|| 2022-07-15 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 It would be a kindness.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-15 10:11|| 2022-07-15 10:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Similar theory of mine as well P2K, like keeping a Husky as an apartment pet.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-15 11:22|| 2022-07-15 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Your LDL is too high you can't have that.

That's what they told me. It put the fear in me so I decided that I really can get by without it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-15 11:40|| 2022-07-15 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 bodies were adapted to extract every possible nutrient out of any food they could get. Now they suffer in general with diabetes and obesity.

Same with native Hawaiians. Mac and cheese and SPAM were not good for them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-15 11:42|| 2022-07-15 11:42|| Front Page Top

#11 [eats another roasted cashew, glad he lives in third world crap corner]

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-15 11:46|| 2022-07-15 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought when they banned transfat it was supposed to solve the obesity issue.

Posted by Chris 2022-07-15 12:35|| 2022-07-15 12:35|| Front Page Top

#13 If you tend towards weight gain, your metabolism is almost fiendish in its ability to hoard calories as fat. I know this from a lifetime dealing with it firsthand.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-15 13:12|| 2022-07-15 13:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh, and I forgot to add, part of that fiendishness is the metabolism's ability to adjust like a hall of fame cornerback as you try to refine your diet.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-15 13:34|| 2022-07-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Never overlook your gut ecology...

My diet was 'okay' until I had a deep puncture wound and had to take a course of full spectrum antibiotics. *Presto* A set of gut bacteria that had spent decades optimizing for my preferred diet and lifestyle were replaced by a "one size fits all" set of probiotics they provided ... which were followed by a more extensive set I bought at my favorite health foods store.

Posted by magpie 2022-07-15 17:59|| 2022-07-15 17:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Alas, my gut microbes are limited to the ones that can stand up to Wild Turkey 101.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-15 18:00|| 2022-07-15 18:00|| Front Page Top

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