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Susanne C.'s avatar

Very timely. I am overweight, but also big boned, and broad shouldered as a 6’2” older woman, on thyroid medication, so not in a position to be too critical, but I have noticed how much heavier young people are getting. That sedentary workers in their late 30’s and 40’s, or women after bearing several children should carry extra weight is almost inevitable, but on a recent cruise I was shocked at how many fat young couples there were. It became a rare pleasure to see someone male or female who looked good in a bathing suit!

Speaking of bathing suits we live in a time when there is an incredible selection of tops and bottoms in women’s suits, longer skirted suits, youthful styles that don’t look like grandmoms’s but don’t show flab, a variety I would’ve loved when I was younger, but young women never seem to pick out the ones that would flatter them. The body positivity movement has a lot of aesthetic horrors to its credit. One sight I would love to unsee was a girl carrying perhaps 80-100 extra pounds wearing a suit with slashes across the midriff. This was a style that would not have looked good on a young Sophia Loren.

The DoorDash phenomena still stuns me. We sometimes stop for breakfast after early Mass on Sunday. The waiting area is filled with door dash drivers. Of all meals breakfast is easy to prepare and unpleasant to eat cold. The restaurant is somewhat pricey, so you are paying top dollar plus delivery for congealed eggs or cheap carbs. It is mind boggling. I have had the privilege of being a stay at home wife and mother for 42 years, which has meant almost all meals and baked goods prepared from scratch. This vanishing lifestyle has certainly made eating healthier more of a challenge but anyone can cook a couple eggs and a few slices of bacon…

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The Reverend Gonzo's avatar

It's all by design. A population that is fat and unhealthy is much easier to control than a society of fit and healthy individuals. By slowly poisoning the food supply, and us along with it, they have essentially neutered their biggest threat, those they seek to enslave. I absolutely do not understand how people can drink pop, eat bags of doritos, or, for fuck's sake, a goddamn 7/11 burrito and not realize that all they are doing is poisoning themselves. Yes, let's slurp down poisoned water along with a whole host of other chemicals and call that nutrition, then wonder why they are fat and cannot lose weight. Oh, but it tastes good so therefore who cares what it's doing to your body. It's hard living in this world sometimes when you're surrounded by people so absolutely sedated by chemicals, propaganda, and sheer stupidity that it's a wonder they can dress themselves without the government telling them that pants go on the legs and shirts go over the head.

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