Americans don't need to be disarmed, they just need to be disabled
Americans' poor health is a greater danger to our freedoms than our steady loss of 1st and 2nd amendment rights
I wrote an article a few years ago about the necessity of not just being armed, but also of being healthy. You can’t effectively wield a firearm if you’re obese and can’t walk further than from your front door to the car.
For many Americans, I think the decline in their (or their fellow citizens’) health has been a slow process. Kind of like a frog being boiled in water. If each generation is a bit fatter than the one before it, will anybody notice?
Sure, people talk about obesity in this country, but half that talk is about how we need to support obese people, rather than focusing on actually getting them back to health.
As someone who grew up in Europe and immigrated here several years ago, it was frankly a shock. Yes, Europeans are also dealing with rising chronic health problems, including obesity, but it’s nothing like over here. The difference is staggering.
Better yet, go to Japan for a week. Then come back here, and see if you notice the difference. Japan’s obesity rate is extremely low - you’ll almost never see any overweight people there. You don’t even need to come back to the U.S., you’ll start to notice the health shift as soon as you get to the departing gate for your flight back to the U.S.
If you’re in the liberty movement and you want to build a better future for yourself and your children, you’re better off focusing on health issues (atrazine, glyphosate, the sugar epidemic, big pharma, fluoridated water) than first and second amendment rights. Yes, those are important too, but it turns out you need a functioning body to really exercise your rights.
Last year I suffered a pretty bad shoulder injury that put me out of commission for a few months, and even after more than a year I’m still recovering. This bout of bad health has put the need for good health, and community, into a sharper focus for me.
While I was not the biggest fan of RFK Jr. - he seemed like too much of a socialist, and I don’t believe in political “solutions” anyway, I did admire the fact that he was the first presidential candidate I’ve ever heard talk seriously about the decline in Americans’ health. I’m hoping he can do for the health movement what Ron Paul in 2008 did for the liberty movement - mass education.
No top-down solution to this problem exists. The corporations and government agencies that have caused this annihilation of Americans’ health did it on purpose, and they are far too powerful to “fix” from the inside like what RFK Jr. would like to do. The only solution, as always, is to first change yourself, and then lead by example.
Everything else is wishful thinking and a waste of time.
So, what are you doing for your health today?
Well put. It used to look like "the fat people" from Wall*E but that's not even a funny comparison anymore. It's almost like people are pre-burying themselves.
The only thing to add to your description is that it's not just a gradual process of "every day in every way I am getting fatter and fatter," but there has been an erosion of reality-based attitudes to life. What is food? What is health? Etc. The things we see as normal today in every basic sphere of life would have made our grandparents' hair stand on end.
So, to answer your question: unprocessed homecooked food, long walks, human contact, vitamins, bone broth, the usual :) Oh and keeping a diary, much like Samuel Pepys but without any great fires so far, thank God.
(Good luck with your recovery).
Not offended just asking for clarification, are you saying European obesity is better or worse than American obesity? Just asking for clarification as that paragraph confused me.