Five Myths About Healthy Eating

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AURAPTOR

Monday, October 17, 2011 8:41 PM

Social trends are nothing more than individuals making choices, and falling in line w/ the collective group think. If those around you are a little chunky, then hey, why not... you'll fit right in if you have that extra big mac. Monkey see, monkey do. It's the individuals who choose to NOT follow the herd that 'stand out', and often get peer pressured into falling in line.

I found this amusing...

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I am just responding to posts as I read them, so excuse me if I repeat what someone else says.

we are not mindless programable robots

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

1KIKI

Monday, October 17, 2011 8:54 PM

I see, once again, little Rappy has nothing to add beyond unsupported personal opinion.

In terms of mental diet, Rappy is fa(c)t-free.

While Wall St. is going through the roof, Main St. is paying all the bills.

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

Yeah, me neither....

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 17, 2011 9:50 PM

Actually, my personal opinion is supported. I know, because I lived it.

Doesn't get more real than that.

But if you want more than my testimony, I suggest you read up some...

http://www.baptiststandard.com/2002/4_8/pages/cooper_kenneth.html

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

BYTEMITE

Monday, October 17, 2011 9:55 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Actually, my personal opinion is supported. I know, because I lived it.

Doesn't get more real than that.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

While I agree that people DO have a choice in what they eat, if your experience is that people are peer pressured into becoming overweight, then your experience is very different from my experience.

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 17, 2011 10:00 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Actually, my personal opinion is supported. I know, because I lived it.

Doesn't get more real than that.

While I agree that people DO have a choice in what they eat, if your experience is that people are peer pressured into becoming overweight, then your experience is very different from my experience.

People are peer pressured to do a lot of things, from the styles of clothes they wear, to how they worship ( if at all ) , to the music they listen to, the politics they follow, all sorts of things. It's quite common, and "safer " to blend in w/ the crowd. Those who deviate from everyone else, tend to get noticed.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

BYTEMITE

Monday, October 17, 2011 10:23 PM

I'm not sure how to reconcile your point of view with the sort of appearance (thin, young, with lustrous hair) that is marketed as the ideal body type. Even when the said ideal body types are hawking unhealthy foods which lead to an unideal body type.

If you mean that people are being sold that a product can make them look young, thin, and healthy, then yes. But if you're arguing that people who are around people who are overweight want to BECOME overweight to fit in, I don't think I can agree.

1KIKI

Monday, October 17, 2011 10:34 PM

"Social trends are nothing more than individuals making choices, and falling in line w/ the collective group think."

And then, after your paean to the heroic individual who stands against the group think that (you claim) makes people overweight, you post a link from a different group hawking their own type of group think.

Well, I have to say, if it wasn't for group think, you wouldn't think at all.

While Wall St. is going through the roof, Main St. is paying all the bills.

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

Yeah, me neither....

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 17, 2011 10:50 PM

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...you post a link from a different group hawking their own type of group think.

So, living healthy is now 'group think' ?

Really? Is that the best you have ?

So, nothing is good enough for you. Either I'm fa(c)t less, or I'm pushing some sort of group think ?

Man, the contortions you go through to keep from even TRYING to have a reasonable conversation.

Dr Kenneth Cooper is a pioneer in the use of aerobics to train and to maintain good health. I think the guy knows a bit more about fitness than most here, and if becoming informed, if expanding one's knowledge on being healthy is nothing but " group think " to you, then you truly are a mindless, programmed robot.

Nothing I or anyone says or does will be worth your while, so why even pretend to carry on w/this debate? It's all big burger's fault, all the ad agencies fault, that we're fat, right ?

Your mind is made up, it seems.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

SIGNYM

Monday, October 17, 2011 11:17 PM

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I don't think there's a problem, and even if there was, I wouldn't do anything about it.

Er....

?????

1KIKI

Monday, October 17, 2011 11:35 PM

As I posted "you post a link from a different group hawking their own type of group think."

Annnnd ... heeeeere it is!

baptiststandard

The Coopers are members of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

If the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, as the Bible states, is it sinful to be overweight or to take things into the body that would harm it?

I think it is just as sinful to be overweight as it is to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. Anything you do to your body that may shorten your life, to me, is sinful. I'm afraid a lot of pastors don't understand that. As a profession, pastors are the most poorly conditioned people who come through our clinic. You are to glorify God in your body as well as your spirit.

What role has religious faith played in your life?

It's been the foundation of my life, without question. I am a man of faith and a man of prayer. ... while my vision was finite, the Lord's vision was infinite. Each day I get here at about 6:30 a.m. and spend the first 30 minutes in prayer and Bible study, and I read Christian books. My favorites are Chuck Swindoll and Max Lucado--both of them my patients. Now I am reading "When Couples Pray" by Sherry Fuller during my Bible study in the morning. She says when couples pray only 1 percent of marriages end in divorce. Millie and I are coming up on 43 years of marriage, and we have prayed through all of them. Both of our children are fine Christians.

Without the benefit of the surrounding society, a corporation dies. If society looks at a corporation and says 'work, or die', what work should be demanded of the corporation for it to earn its survival?

While Wall St. is going through the roof, Main St. is paying all the bills.

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

Yeah, me neither....

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