All of you who criticized Bloomberg over the Soda ban ... consider this

[johnlucas]

176. Consuming ANYTHING in massive quantities is stupid

Bloomberg overstepped his bounds.

If he REALLY wants to stop obesity, he's gonna have to get rid of the the smartphone, the remote control, the washing machine, the dishwasher, the refrigerator, the vacuum cleaner, the subway, the car, the train, the boat, the shoe, agriculture...

Here's reality.
Civilization's ultimate purpose is to grow a bunch of fat happy people.

Every technology we create is designed to make our lives EASIER...so we have to do LESS work.
That's the whole purpose of inventing new things.
We don't do HALF the work people did 100 years ago.
Because we don't put out that much activity, we had to put together this chore called EXERCISE.
When we were a more agrarian-based society, exercise was your daily routine working in the fields.
No need & no time for those unnatural exercises then.

We ate carbohydrate-rich diets to allow us the energy to work those fields.
But as our technology grew, we didn't change the diets so we just store the excess energy as fat.
We STILL preach about eating Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner but we have nowhere to spend all of the energy from those meals.
THEN you got such easy access to food in this country at every corner that you can't HELP but to get fat.
And some people gain weight faster than others. You know that basic variation of life that affects all species.

With the technology of this internet age, now people don't even have to walk to the bank or post office or utility companies to pay their bills or mail messages.
It's all done online now.

What do you expect?
All Bloomberg's dumb ass is gonna do is cause people to buy MORE drinks to make up for the big drinks they can no longer get.
All the sugar just making them even fatter.

This country is VERY hypocritical when it comes to the weight issue.
Trying to demonize the fat form but doing absolutely everything to ensure that it exists.

Wait until they finally invent the Toilet Couch that Homer Simpson dreamed of!
Then people won't even have to leave their living rooms!

Everything in moderation.
INCLUDING exercise.
No matter how "fit" you make yourself, your ass is still gonna die like everyone else.
At least the ones who don't buy into that food nazi crap will have had some fun before they died.
George Burns smoked a cigar every day & lived to 100.
Brian Maxwell, the fit athletic co-creator of the PowerBar, ran marathons & lived to 51.
Who's more healthy?

Think about it. If everyone was peak health & fitness, then the doctors wouldn't have a job, would they?
How are they gonna get better at fixing the human body if they never deal with a body that breaks?
John Lucas