I was watching
Bill Maher a couple of days ago. He was talking about what we should do about
health coverage. The Dems want Medicaid for all, like Europe. Should we?
He then went
into a tirade about how the whole question could be moot if we would just watch
what we put into our mouths better. He came out with a picture of people
watching the launch of Apollo 11, fifty years ago. Look how slim they all
looked! He showed us an old picture of the circus Fat Man. “Now he’s just fat!”
True! At 250 pounds, I could have
been that circus Fat Man!


It’s not only eating that gets to
me. Smoking drives me crazy. While we’re so concerned about drug abuse and spend
so much money on drug abuse and treatment, do we ever think to count tobacco as
a form of drug abuse? If a person were to go into a drug abuse treatment
center, could he get treatment for smoking tobacco? Yet it’s one of the world’s
most popular and most addictive forms of drug abuse, perhaps more so than alcohol!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t get the
headlines because it’s not as dramatic. Nobody falls over and dies from a
tobacco overdose and few people steal or commit crimes for tobacco money, but,
while you may have one member of your family who died from narcotics or some
other drug, I bet half your family died twenty years earlier than they had to
because of complications of tobacco use. Perhaps you will.
I go into a drug store, a shop
designed to make you healthier, and right next to the smoking cessation products
are the cigarettes! It makes me think of a cartoon I saw.
A man buys a cup of lemonade from a
kid’s lemonade stand with a sign that reads, “Lemonade, 5¢”. He then crawls a
block to another child’s stand with the sign, “Lemonade antidote, $1000”.
Point being, we could greatly
reduce medical costs if we just did four thinks.
Quit smoking, tobacco, pot, or
anything besides plain old fresh air.
Watch what you put in your mouth
and try to lose weight, if you need to.
Watch what you drink, and join AA,
if you must.
Get a bit more exercise, which can
be as simple as walking an extra few blocks, or even feet, and, maybe, buy a
bike and use it occasionally. My bike has been sitting in the closet for a
while. I think I’ll use it to get over to Five Guys for lunch. Just kidding
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