The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Explaining the epidemic of blubber


Americans nowadays get little to no exercise at work, all day, every day.

That is a big change from the age of heavy industry, before widespread home use of washing machines and dishwashers.

We have gone so far in making our daily lives empty of physical motion that some of us have taken to paying gym membership and training fees to take up the slack, and even more spend much greater amounts on diet and weight-loss programs, most of them no better than snake oil.




Oddly, people immobilized at work are the ones most apt to stuff their faces almost constantly with junk food and eat a calorie-packed, fatty, and salt-rich lunch every day.

Followed by a very similar supper, followed again by a bedtime snack.

Deprived of its authentic raison d'être, appetite goes haywire.

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