simplicity wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:22 pm
It is no secret that women seem to take a particular fancy to eating. Many might consider such bordering on the obsessive [after all, if there were only men in the world, how many restaurants, pastry, candy, and coffee shops would there be? ].
I don't really have anything against eating but there does seem to be an obesity epidemic raging [I'll speak for the U.S.] that really got going when women began to take control of many matters. And although causation and correlation can have little to do with each other, it seems a bit odd that the number one external thing women seem to obsess on [food] just happens to be a national health calamity.
Not that there is a paucity of peer-reviewed studies in the medical literature, I will add my own anecdotal tidbit by relating my trip to Costco yesterday [where they open an hour early for those over 60 years of age...perhaps the only blessings to come out of the COVID fiasco] and noted that I was literally the only patron there who was at his/her appropriate weight [out of perhaps 150 folks]. Amazing.
If women really want to make a serious difference in U.S. society, how about getting the food thing under control? Not only is adult obesity an enormous problem, but now you see it quite commonly in children, as well. This is inexcusable. If you can't eat properly, what the hell can you do?
This is not to say that men do not suffer from over-eating, as well, but women have more hands in the kitchen and make the lion's share of decisions that affect their family's diet. Isn't it time to manifest a little control and deal with this problem [instead of being worried about which pronoun to use or the other crazy things people believe are urgent problems]?
It's time to grow-up folks and start acting like responsible adults.
America is the most obese nation on Earth, the UK is not too far behind, and the reason is fast cheap food. It's true that women are more partial to the sweeter, more fattening temptations, but I'm not sure there's that much in it. However, mothers, particularly single mothers, are often of such a social economic group that the only foods they can afford, for both themselves and their children, are the fast cheap kind. Overall though, in order to understand what's going on you have to look at how food is produced. Farm animals, for example, are bred to be as full of fat as possible, and in order to achieve this they're given bovine growth hormones, steroids, antibiotics and a host of other chemicals, making the food not only very unhealthy but also highly addictive. In which case, the idea for many obese people to grow up and start acting like adults, may be a lot easier said than done.