Wow, only one comment?!!! I expected dozens, this is such a hot-button topic. Obesity is certainly an area I've struggled with, and having a Taiwanese-American wife, I can tell you you're right on target about Asian parents, too.
It's good you're brave enough to write on this, we Americans definitely need to hear it. I don't know where you're going with this series, so will say it won't do much good just to beat up everyone, it's something many of us are already well aware of and have been struggling to deal with for many years.
What might help, though is to point out there's an awful lot of folks who aren't thinking AT ALL about what they eat, how they eat, let alone getting their rears off the couch and moving around. I really notice this when we get out of the suburbs into rural areas, where food choices are often comically bad, at restaurants or stores.
I think the word you're looking for is 'lasciviousness', not in its current usage restricted to lust, but in its root, which meant something akin to 'letting go'. You can't just let go about eating habits, anymore than you can about other things. But that's where a lot of Americans are. And really, there's got to be something seriously wrong with our food supply. We never had these problems before high-fructose corn syrup came along.
Hi Gordon, thanks for your comment! Substack is a competitive place. I'm sure as I post more, and post more regularly, traffic will pick up.
I agree with you about lasciviousness (great word!) and thoughtlessness. Also yes our food supply is terribly polluted. And yet in that, people can't help but notice their expanding middles. Everyone knows that fried and greasy food is bad us in immoderate amounts. Even before the fat goes on, our bodies have ways of letting us know. Seed oils are another MAJOR concern.
At the same time, everyone knows at least one person who made a choice to lose weight, get lean, or even get in amazing shape. If they can do it, so can we.
I recommend my good friend Sean O'Brien as a faithful brother in Christ, if you're looking for an online trainer. He's my trainer and has helped me achieve some massive goals this year.
It's a simple choice to me. I'd rather focus time on keeping my body strong and healthy as much as I can than have my attention taken by problems of being weak and sick. What do you think about 1 Timothy 4:8? "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."
Wow, only one comment?!!! I expected dozens, this is such a hot-button topic. Obesity is certainly an area I've struggled with, and having a Taiwanese-American wife, I can tell you you're right on target about Asian parents, too.
It's good you're brave enough to write on this, we Americans definitely need to hear it. I don't know where you're going with this series, so will say it won't do much good just to beat up everyone, it's something many of us are already well aware of and have been struggling to deal with for many years.
What might help, though is to point out there's an awful lot of folks who aren't thinking AT ALL about what they eat, how they eat, let alone getting their rears off the couch and moving around. I really notice this when we get out of the suburbs into rural areas, where food choices are often comically bad, at restaurants or stores.
I think the word you're looking for is 'lasciviousness', not in its current usage restricted to lust, but in its root, which meant something akin to 'letting go'. You can't just let go about eating habits, anymore than you can about other things. But that's where a lot of Americans are. And really, there's got to be something seriously wrong with our food supply. We never had these problems before high-fructose corn syrup came along.
Hi Gordon, thanks for your comment! Substack is a competitive place. I'm sure as I post more, and post more regularly, traffic will pick up.
I agree with you about lasciviousness (great word!) and thoughtlessness. Also yes our food supply is terribly polluted. And yet in that, people can't help but notice their expanding middles. Everyone knows that fried and greasy food is bad us in immoderate amounts. Even before the fat goes on, our bodies have ways of letting us know. Seed oils are another MAJOR concern.
At the same time, everyone knows at least one person who made a choice to lose weight, get lean, or even get in amazing shape. If they can do it, so can we.
I recommend my good friend Sean O'Brien as a faithful brother in Christ, if you're looking for an online trainer. He's my trainer and has helped me achieve some massive goals this year.
https://obrienfitnesslifestyle.com/
Oh and yeah, those Asian parents don't pull punches! LOL!
It's a simple choice to me. I'd rather focus time on keeping my body strong and healthy as much as I can than have my attention taken by problems of being weak and sick. What do you think about 1 Timothy 4:8? "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."
Hi Cheryl - That's a great approach! My response to 1 Timothy 4:8 is that it makes a poor treatment for type 2 diabetes.