Did I already mention my opinions regarding fat and exercise?
Since it has been a month when I last wrote and there are no numbers today because I am still mega-bummed out.
By the way, I have no reasons to be bummed out other than I am a self-centered son of a bitch.
So exercise works like this, if you do minimal exercise on a regular basis you stay at a minimal level of health. If you work out religiously and consistently hit your target heart rate and blah, blah, effing blah then you get improved fitness levels and might be able to run a triathlon if that's your thing. However if you stop doing the minimal amount of work, then you get less healthy at a deceptively rapid rate.
What I am saying is I am in pain after taking a break from my minimal workout routine and now breathing is a bit tough.
Like I said not much to complain about.
Also a complaint in my head that I may have written before, fat cells. They don't go away right? Think about it, as you back on calories and pounds your body adds fat cells to store the excess of potential energy from food. However once you cut back on calories those cells don't die off. They are in your body and I am guessing they exist to have fat stored in them and if they don't have that fat somehow they tell your body you need more calories. Hormones or some other super awesome survival thing kicks in and you dream of cupcakes, or whatever your poison might be, until those cells are occupied with fat again.
That is all just a guess, since I think I heard the cells never die concept from a real doctor but I can't recall who.
So clearly, you need liposuction to eliminate these cells?
I have no idea how this works.
Like most charitable donations. Who am I giving my money to when I donate to cancer research? It seems like the money for cancer research should come from the companies that are going to sell the final product to the people. That's how capitalism works, right? I'd like to see the pie chart of donation money broken down by where that money goes. It is sad that the only Jonas anyone knows these days is on the Disney Channel, but no Salk is out there discovering a cure for diseases that he is going to give away.
The other problem with the research, cure and dispensing mechanism in capitalism is that there is less incentives to cure diseases with a one dose solution then there is for a treatment program that requires a lifetime of doses. No cure for cancer, but lots of treatments. No cure for diabetes but tons of treatments. No cure for high blood pressure (other than diet and exercise-thanks Doc!) but a plethora of treatments.
I liken it to car maintenance. Used to be you'd get an oil change every 10,000-20,000 miles and now it's every 3,000 miles. Cars have improved so much that it takes three times the cost to keep it running in the most basic sense.
Hey remember swine flu? How much did that cost you? There aren't enough real diseases to bilk actual sick people out of money, now we have fake diseases to sell fake cures to healthy people to in order to improve the bottom line. Good news! The World Health Organization has said, "Remember that Swine Flu? Nevermind." So we went from losing 30% of the world's population a few years ago to can you name two people you've met personally who even got diagnosed with this "disease"? Now try to find two people who didn't get a shot for it, you can count me as one.
Sorry, just a level of frustration with the world in general this morning. Just put me in charge of the world for a week or two and we can take care of all these crazy wastes of time. Legalize marijuana, make all marriages illegal or none illegal, no one has a kid until they can get a home loan under the 2010 rules not the 2007 rules, if you can work but can't find a job then you do community work in the state where you are cashing an unemployment check until you get a job, if you can't work then figure out some way to add value or, you know, there are those death panels. I am just saying that most of the world's problems are very straight forward, no raping, no child labor, no slavery of any kind, no treating one person as less than another person based on sex, race, religion or any other criteria except age (five year old and seventy year old drivers are not necessary) and legitimate assessment (I should not be designing new airplanes, but a chick from MIT should be able to if she got the grades).
So maybe I won't be running the world any time soon, but most of it seems pretty simple.
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