Posted on 03/15/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by RightGeek
For later
Heck, all of that sounds pretty good. Why worry, it won’t add a day to your life.
If a rebalance of gut bacteria and metabolism could help, I hope modern medicine figures out a way to get it that way and keep it that way.
Why people strut around boasting about a hand that they never dealt themselves is beyond my ken. It turns “conservatism” into little-mindedness. I’ve seen some of the fattest people with the most beautiful souls. Nobody is going to be on this earth forever, so overall life quality matters more than dogged longevity.
In ancient days, a certain degree of fatness was more directly equated with health (as witnessed by, e.g., Old Testament bible texts). Or to reference another culture: have you ever seen a skinny Buddha (an icon of contentment)?
Modern pursuits are more sedentary, which add to the problem. Exercise turns out to not just be worth the calories directly burned, but to push metabolism itself towards a more even keel.
Yes, I agree. Our bodies are meant to move but the brain, mine at least, wants to do the least amount of exertion possible.
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