I have been running myself ragged this week so I am not going to have an extremely long and in depth post today. I do however want to give you something to think about. Last week I took my daughter to the eye doctor. I had forgotten to take my own reading material. There was an entire table filled with magazines at the office. I was getting annoyed because all of them were either about golf, fancy houses, or the lives of celebrities I couldn’t care less about.
After rifling through at least fifty or sixty of them I got a hold of an issue of Newsweek. It had a child sitting on the front of it. The cover read, “When I Grow Up, I’m Going to Weigh 300 Lbs. Help!” With the other options available, I sad “what the heck!”. I began reading the article by Gary Taubes. The actual title was “Why the Campaign to Stop America’s Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing“.
According to Mr. Taubes, recent studies indicate that America’s obesity problem has little to do with inactivity and video games. There is evidence it has EVERYTHING to do with dietary choices, particularly too many carbohydrates — sugar.
Poor diet leading to health problems…. I can apply THAT to bees. Continue reading
