Easy Route To Health
Just when I thought we’d seen it all, a new pill has been created with the goal of tricking the body to believe it is undergoing serious exertion.
As stated within the article:
“The drug hints at radical new potential treatments for obesity whereby fat people would be able to use drugs to slim down rather than dieting or exercising.”
So, rather than dieting or exercising, this study suggests that a pill is the cure all to obesity. The article even claims the discovery of an easy route to health.
How do these pill pushers define health? Does the pharmaceutical industry really believe that a pill can correct all of the problems associated with poor nutrition? Obesity is just one of many problems linked to diet. And what about exercise? Is this pill going to strengthen your heart?
Once again, the public is deceived into thinking that diet and exercise are not required for health and longevity. Why work for health, when a pill can give us the same thing?
Pure nonsense!
Ross
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I totally agree with you, while genetics can play a significant role it might be more along the lines of lifestyles and much needed behavior modification. In my experience when an obese person says they’ve tried every diet and exercise, I ask for a 2 or 3 day recall. The get quack diets and don’t even follow them, they also exercise very poorly aiming for comfort instead of real world exertion. Unfortunately they are at higher risks for injuries so it’s important to not to push the envelope too much, but an in depth fitness assessment can usually catch those types of conditions before they become liabilities.
This infuriates me. The pill pushers are merely treating another symptom…obesity, symptomatic of too much food and too little movement. The beauty of that method for them is that they have a customer for life. To cure diseases, you put someone on a regimen of short-term care and then they are no longer a paying customer. But if you build your business model on “curing” symptoms, you have a lifelong customer base. As soon as these people stop taking the pills, they will regain the weight because they never treated the source of their obesity, only the obesity itself.
If people would quit eating foods that are at odds with their bodies and stick to REAL food: meat, vegetables, nuts, seeds, proper oils, fruits, starchy tubers, and squashes, they would have proper health and proper weight. But that requires work. Popping a pill doesn’t. I guess it requires a pill to overcome that “obesity gene,” which somehow seems to have been selected for in 50% of the population.
Keep it up Ross.
Scott
http://modernforager.blogspot.com
reminds me of a lineman classmate i had in college. dr told him he had high blood pressure and that he needed to lose weight and watch his stress level. when asked by a friend if he’d start running more, he replyed, “well, running makes me stressed out, so no.” hahahahahahaha. love the general population.
People look outside themselves for solutions to problems that can only be solved by looking inward. However, looking inward requires them to see themselves for what they really are. This is too bitter a pill to swallow (pardon the pun.) Besides which, it requires energy and self discipline, which, by definition, they clearly don’t have.
Drugs are an easier alternative… all it costs is money. Welcome to the vicious circle, suckers.
I think that it is important to note the last paragraph of this article:
“These drugs … always fail in the real world,” said Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University and author of the diet book What to Eat. “If people want to get thin they have to control the calories they consume and exercise more.”
I think this says it all.