tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post7907398548436872063..comments2023-11-28T09:02:03.742+01:00Comments on The Seneca Effect: The impending global collapse: will it end the obesity epidemic?Ugo Bardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-66584079661821822722022-06-08T16:24:12.657+02:002022-06-08T16:24:12.657+02:00Hello from Barcelona, Ugo!
Nice post, very curious...Hello from Barcelona, Ugo!<br />Nice post, very curious... <br />As you said "Livy spoke of the obesus etruscus ('fat Etruscan') as an insult to a people he considered lazy and decadent." <br />This is a very curious point of view...nowadays we are getting used to this pandemic called obesity, and in some countries it is like having the hair curly or straight... let's think about our society goals: money first, then health... decrepit leaders will lead to decrepit societies. Culture, art, love, nature... the curiosity as the main engine for this life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-63733507489100201542022-05-28T05:55:12.504+02:002022-05-28T05:55:12.504+02:00Hello Ugo and the community, this is ArtDeco. I a...Hello Ugo and the community, this is ArtDeco. I am just guessing here, but I suspect that over eating is a self destructive behavior like smoking, reckless driving, gambling, or getting into fights, etc.<br /><br />Obviously the companies that manufacture processed foods encourage their customers to buy more and eat or drink more, but that isn't new. The change that I see in people at the shops is very widespread and very pronounced in the last couple of decades, and I think it reflects an inner change. 🤔 <br /><br />Like the famous 1960s experiment with overpopulation in rats, we all react to the stress of the modern era with increasingly bad behavior ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-7018639697968568642022-05-26T06:07:47.852+02:002022-05-26T06:07:47.852+02:00I've always thought people were obese because ...I've always thought people were obese because of processing, more than the sugar or other ingredients, even though that has become a serious problem with the introduction of "fat-free" foods. It's possible to get fat off raw fruit (and certainly not get enough protein) I suppose, but that has to be extremely rare, but unlike some, I don't think the solution to obesity (or other health problems) is to eat "unprocessed" food. To me, the issue is that if you had to grow wheat, harvest it, separate the chaff, dry it, and grind it into powder by yourself, you'd probably never eat wheat products (like cake and pasta) again because it's too much work, and you'd burn through an awful lot of energy just to have something tasty. Peanut butter is similarly a problem in this regard, even though it is high in fat and protein. However, if you had to dig peanuts, shell them, de-husk them, and then grind them to a paste, you'd probably never eat peanut butter; you would stick with just eating peanuts to save some effort.dirty_birdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222737866882581994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-15281028463452671062022-05-24T18:36:14.586+02:002022-05-24T18:36:14.586+02:00Two very good data sources and many studies exist ...Two very good data sources and many studies exist relative impacts of a major change in diet when calories are reduced and/or access to processed foods radially curtailed: The Dutch famine of 1944, and the Cuban 'famine' of 1991, when they were abandoned by Russia. With the coming pancake collapse scenarios, the only pancakes we will likely be getting as we peruse those studies will be sawdust and straw... No sugar added.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-50698718788079233172022-05-24T03:06:00.327+02:002022-05-24T03:06:00.327+02:00I read this earlier, but I just had to come back t...I read this earlier, but I just had to come back to it, because it's too funny. The idea of society collapsing and us wondering about whether we will be obese when we will probably be starving to death is quite a juxtaposition. I'm wondering if people will try to eat my dogs, or kill me for my food...were cannibals ever obese? Hmmmmm....if the industrial food/farming complexes break down, and if people can't order pizza and Pepsi on What'sapp (or buy things in stores), the obesity matter will be the least of our worries!!!<br />C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-65491108294272126812022-05-23T22:34:57.605+02:002022-05-23T22:34:57.605+02:00Ugo: I tend toward being fat. As we say here in ...Ugo: I tend toward being fat. As we say here in America, I like my vittles. But for the past month or so I have started controlling how I eat.<br /><br />No, I am not on a fancy diet, I just prepare food myself and cut out "convenient calories". That is my term for industrialized junk food of all types. I did it because I sense a bad harvest and short food supplies and a need to cook yourself because "convenient calories" are going up in price faster than the raw ingredients needed to cook for oneself.<br /><br />All the fancy talk and the bullshit nutritional needs that are posited by researchers whose "results" are directly related to source of funding can be ignored. <br /><br />Just get used to cooking simple cheap food for yourself. Walk more. You'll get healthy. So I suppose your discussion point of "obesity epidemic" will become less an issue. It was always just a phase.Degringoladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893964959960977677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-72481591660226192022022-05-23T16:52:30.424+02:002022-05-23T16:52:30.424+02:00You keep discovering new things in life.....You keep discovering new things in life.....Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-34093042352172811512022-05-23T15:53:50.781+02:002022-05-23T15:53:50.781+02:00We do not need carbohydrates apparently. The human...We do not need carbohydrates apparently. The human body needs small amounts, and it also needs to do something with all those glycerol backbones of tryglycerides, after they are used to transport fats to where they are burned. The body usually recycles glycerol by turning it into glucose, and it is more than enough. Likewise fiber is not needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-26934309489850880952022-05-23T12:17:08.042+02:002022-05-23T12:17:08.042+02:00Billionaires are getting fat too from higher price...Billionaires are getting fat too from higher prices<br />https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/may/23/food-and-energy-billionaires-453bn-richer-oxfam-davos-wealth-tax-soaring-prices<br /><br />Ah no, I checked my aldi mayonaise, theres sugar in it. A curse of jaysus on it anyway. Having a child with T1 diabetes, I usually check all labels for carbs at least. Theres 3.4grms of carb in 100ml, really there should be only a trace as mayo is really just egg and oil.<br />Is it time I make my own?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-63092229225732189142022-05-22T20:22:54.228+02:002022-05-22T20:22:54.228+02:00An explosion of monetised contents on the web has ...<b>An explosion of monetised contents on the web has started to become a trend - filming people race and eating enormous intakes of food - to make a living</b>. <br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/5QQGtyLz19Y?list=RDCMUCEGY1DARlz2kj7r4GbHhSBw&t=98" rel="nofollow">Watch here a sample with 1+ million views</a>...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-bGWoLD9vY" rel="nofollow">Here is a TV report</a> from the Middle East explaining to viewers <b>how Europe has started to smuggle into itself - banned Russian Oil</b>.<br /><br />The smuggled Russian, Iraqi, Syrian, Yeminis, Libyan's oil on the international black energy market (Iraq was selling oil to escape sanctions in the 1990s for few dollars a barrel) - is then used to power processes that run the digital platforms 24/7 - propagating the inhumanely intakes of food contents. <br /><br /><b>This is all - no less than a sponsored and forced Seneca Curve - to a plan - rather than anything natural</b>;<br /><br />"<a href="https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/press-release?ugo=https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-seneca-cliff-does-it-also-affect.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most</b></a>".<br /><br />Wailing.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com