Thursday, February 28, 2008

oxymorons and other morons

Oxymoron:

People keep saying that «thin is in» yet 1 out of 5 people are obese.

There are entire channels devoted to cooking yet the prepackaged food industry is worth billions. Have a look at what people are eating in an office cafeteria. Most eat out of little plastic bowls coming out of little carboard boxes. And we used to make fun of TV dinners...

We are obsessed with diets yet most of us eat at least 3 times a week at the restaurant.

We eat Japanese, Thai, Indian, Middle Eastern and all kinds of food from around the world but I am told 50% of people under 30 never baked a pie from scratch never mind cut up a chicken.

We are obsessed with fitness and buy 300$ running shoes yet we have never watched more TV (including sitting in front of a computer screen)

We buy $1000 flat screen TV's, have cinema rooms in our house, buy 2000$ german washing machines and yet we complain that the cost of living is going up.



And now to morons:

Again on the radio a reporter claimed that obesity is a self imposed illness so we should not be treated by our famous healthcare system.

So is anorexia, suicide attempts and smoke related illnesses, tennis elbow, sports injury. Should we stop treating them also?

Goodnight,

May your grandchildren visit Italy one day.

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