Sunday, April 2, 2006

   Opinion
Nothing much rally happens in my life(thank whatever god is listening)so I'll write the occasional essay intil I have something to write.(please exuse my tendenct to wander off subject)
Todays subject,

addiction and obesity.

Why is it everyone I know from childhood are drug addicts?
They even complain about it when it's thier own fault. Deep down they are great people, even now they are,for the most part.(count your money) I know with the proper support they can learn to control thier disease.
But then again I can't talk since I have an addiction too.
Food.
Food addiction is one of the most common addictions in the US(fattist country in the world).
It isn't aknowleged much though.
Alot of people reading this probably I'm full of it.
Think about it though.
How many of us eat when we're depressed, bored, because others are doing it, angery and so on. It distracts us from what we feel at the time right?(unless it's social then we just want to fit in)just like drugs, alchohol and sex. It's easier to do these thing rather then face the problem at hand.
When we start getting over-wieght, we may not even notice until someone, instead of helping, ostrsizes us, some,like my dad, do it cause the see a person they love changeing,getting meaner, lazier, more unstable, and they don't know how to handle it, some people just see easy prey,or a way redirect thier hurt,anger,whatever(someone stronger then me hurt me,no one saved me, so i'll do the same to another). As a response, a person may start tobully, purge(Bulimia)Starve(anorexia Nervosa)(may be symptoms of body dismorphic disorder)or we eat more. Because at the time it feels good,then we look in the mirrior and instaed of seeing worth getting to know we see someone "ugly"(like they said) when in reality we're not.
Why?
Being Fat isn't ugly. In fact until recentlysomeone with a little meat on thier bones were cosidered attractive.
Examples:

This belief still holds true in parts of Africa and other places, most seem to be "3rd world" contries. Thats one lesson we can learn from the native of these places.
Exept MORBID obesity, a condition that kills many in the States indirectly or otherwise and is caused by many things. The most common, food addiction. It's like a smoker getting lung cancer or an alcholic gitting liver disese. Maybe it's more like a crack addict and bad teeth since it is preventable. Not easily preventable though since we go vogue on one side and McDonalds on the other, work in front and family in back but still, with the proper outlook and support food addiction can be slowed down. I can't help but wonder though, why this problem isn't aknowleged or I would if I didn't already know that most food addicts are usually to lathargic to hurt anyone, can still function or are addicted to other substances.

How Can someone tell if ther are an food addict?
Check out these qhuestions from www.foodaddicts.org
1
Have you ever wanted to stop eating and found you just couldn't?

2
Do you think about food or your weight constantly?

3
Do you find yourself attempting one diet or food plan after another, with no lasting success?

4
Do you binge and then "get rid of the binge" through vomiting, exercise, laxatives, or other forms of purging?

5
Do you eat differently in private than you do in front of other people?

6
Has a doctor or family member ever approached you with concern about your eating habits or weight?

7
Do you eat large quantities of food at one time (binge)?

8
Is your weight problem due to your "nibbling" all day long?

9
Do you eat to escape from your feelings?

10
Do you eat when you're not hungry?

11
Have you ever discarded food, only to retrieve and eat it later?

12
Do you eat in secret?

13
Do you fast or severely restrict your food intake?

14
Have you ever stolen other people's food?

15
Have you ever hidden food to make sure you have "enough?"

16
Do you feel driven to exercise excessively to control your weight?

17
Do you obsessively calculate the calories you've burned against the calories you've eaten?

18
Do you frequently feel guilty or ashamed about what you've eaten?

19
Are you waiting for your life to begin "when you lose the weight?"

20
Do you feel hopeless about your relationship with food?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you MAY be a food addict. You are not alone. FA offers hope through a real solution to food addiction.
The site also offers help if you feel you need it.(i know I do)
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Hero: Ben Franklin
Sex: male
Race: Human
Why: Ben loved to help people.
He invented the lightning rod, a stove, bifocals, what lightning was and alot more. dudn't make a cent off any of it.

He was intellegent.
Educated the other founding fathers on somthing called "compimise" an artform we've forgotten. He gave the US the senate and house of represenitives. Wrote many Philosophical works people could actually understand without being a genious. Tried to hold off the Revolutionary War for as long as possible.

Cunning.
pretended to be "backwoods"(he was from Boston) to appeal to the French, made sure to apeal to the Borgous allied himself with every church sect in Boston He was a diest(belives in a "god" but isn't devout in any faith.
Ben loved to learn.
He was the 1st to Chart Gulf Stream. Became a vigitarian so he coudls afford more books.

Franklin was also 1 of the greatest ambassidors in history. Probably due to the fact that He could think for himself and was quite the ladies man.
In short he was pamphleteer, apprentice, printer, balladeer, inventor, philosopher, politician, soldier, firefighter, ambassador, family man, sage, delegate, signer, shopkeeper, bookseller, cartoonist, grandfather, anti-slavery agitator, Mason, and deist. At the same time he wasn't any of these the only thing anyone knows for sure is we don't know what made him tick and he Died at the age of 84.
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Quote:“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”Benjamin Franklin
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