Fixing Epidemic Obesity? We Have Never Tried...

This column isn't about guns or gun control. It's about food, and food for thought, entirely out of control. It's about epidemic obesity, and what passes for deep thinking on the topic. With that proviso out of the way, let's get back to guns. Our gun control arguments must be wrong. Why? Because we are making them, and people are still getting shot. The prosecution rests, holstering its pistols. Actually, let's take it a step further. To make our thinking on gun control roughly analogous to what passes for deep thinking on weight control calls for an exercise of the imagination; a fantasy, if you will. Alas, it is a rather macabre fantasy, so prepare accordingly. Let's pretend we are addressing an audience in some large auditorium -- a metaphor for the world -- on the topic of gun control. Let's pretend we make a variety of what at least some among us would consider sound and sensible, clear and well-reasoned arguments on the topic. And then, we shoot everyone in the audience. And then, waving a hand in the general direction of all those bloody and bullet-riddled carcasses we say, to anyone inclined to listen: see? I told you our gun control arguments must all be wrong! Forgive me, but I don't think shooting people can be used to prove that advice about not shooting people is wrong. Similarly, I don't think we can say that historical advice about diet, health and weight control -- whatever the historical era, or advice -- is wrong because people subject to a diet of wi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news