This map suggests that the Bible Belt is due for a change of name. Seriously, who carries their Bible on their belt? Let's tell it like it is: The Obesity Belt. Notice this graph is just deaths related to CHD between the years listed. If it were to show obesity rates in 2008, every state in the US of A would be dark red. The epidemic has reached every state of the Union. And the Belt continues to expand its circumference around the globe. Cholesterol levels are skyrocketing in China as they westernize.
Christ was clear to his apostles that the gospel should be preached to everyone, that it should spread to all the Earth; But what if obesity has its way. It's a showdown: the good word vs the saturated fat. Hmm, maybe there is something to the mandate that missionaries exercise daily?
We were lectured to this afternoon by a preventative cardiologist. The take home message was this: DON'T EAT ANYTHING ASIDE FROM GRASS AND/OR ANIMALS THAT EAT ONLY GRASS! EXERCISE! JUST DO IT. REGULARLY!
The message was enough to get me out of the library and over to the gym tonight. I can feel the LDL Cholesterol going down already!
Exercise! And eat well! In case you missed the point.
4 comments:
Mississippi - ouch!
Wisconsin - what's their secret?
what if we don't like grass or it gives me indigestion?
The secret to Wisconsin is that no one actually lives there.
Chris,
Just add water and lemon to that grass and voila, Lemon Grass Soup.
Interesting Jeff, this can be a soapbox of my own. I think the history of nutrition in the United States is fascinating. I really enjoy learning now commercialization of farming, agricultural subsidies and advertising by food companies (and our own lack of will power) have led us to where we are at. Unhealthy food is cheap, we are obsessed with quantity of calories instead of quality and obesity rates continue to sky rocket. Have you read the Omnivore's Dilemma?
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