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Isn't this obvious? :) My dad thankfully told me about this when I was a teenager: don't smoke, drink, trash your body. Men need to tell their children, sons in

Isn't this obvious? :) My dad thankfully told me about this when I was a teenager: don't smoke, drink, trash your body. Men need to tell their children, sons in particular.

civilian 7y ago
I definitely stress-ate during puberty b/c of how shitty middle & high school were. I still have a 25.5 BMI which is just into the overweight category. (And I know BMI is not a perfect diagnostic tool, but let's just say I still have more bodyfat than I want.) Just prescribing "don't do X vices" ignores the fact many people turn to vices to deal with shitty situations. I wish school had been better constructed so I wasn't stressed out at that time.
- dnprock 7y ago
  I hear you. Luckily, our bodies are pretty amazing. When we attempt to put it back together, it'll recover. Exercise, eat healthy daily. They'll do wonder to your bodies.
- ChuckNorris89 7y ago
  After being really stressed at work due to colleagues harassing me and being threatened to get fired I started to sleep poorly and put on a lot of weight despite exercising and eating well. A lot of the times mental health, especially sleep quality, is more important as it will affect your physical health as well.
- ryanobjc 7y ago
  The only people who say "don't do X" are those who have no interest in X, and just enjoy being moral scolds, and don't have a serious interest in improving anyone's life, despite what they claim. Because if you are serious about improving people's lives, you must meet them where they are, not where you imagine they ought to be. To use another analogy, being a moral scold is dealing with the world as 'oughts' when the world is a series of 'is'. By another analogy, if you had a child who was having a problem with some vice, if you were to merely periodically send them a letter or mini-lecture pointing out they ought not to do the thing, you would be open to accusations that you did not do your best to help them. Now obviously on the internet you cannot just reach into everyone's lives, but carrying about with overly broad rhetoric leaves everyone with the sense that after hitting 'reply' one sat back self satisfied they had made the world better by their words. So let me reup: food is complex, and anyone who says that eating healthy is easy is wrong. They might find eating healthy is easy for them, but empirically they're so obviously wrong - if it were easy to eat healthy, then there would be no type 2 diabetes.
copperx 7y ago
I'm sorry, but it isn't obvious at all to many people. Some people were taught that DNA is DNA and what you do doesn't change your genes.
ip26 7y ago
Isn't it a bit of a different message, "don't trash your body for the sake of your future kids"? I'm sure plenty would still disregard the message, but it adds a new facet.
journalctl 7y ago
What if I’m not having kids? I love a nice Manhattan.

Isn't this obvious? :) My dad thankfully told me about this when I was a teenager: don't smoke, drink, trash your body. Men need to tell their children, sons in particular.

civilian 7y ago

I definitely stress-ate during puberty b/c of how shitty middle & high school were. I still have a 25.5 BMI which is just into the overweight category. (And I know BMI is not a perfect diagnostic tool, but let's just say I still have more bodyfat than I want.) Just prescribing "don't do X vices" ignores the fact many people turn to vices to deal with shitty situations. I wish school had been better constructed so I wasn't stressed out at that time.

dnprock 7y ago
I hear you. Luckily, our bodies are pretty amazing. When we attempt to put it back together, it'll recover. Exercise, eat healthy daily. They'll do wonder to your bodies.
ChuckNorris89 7y ago
After being really stressed at work due to colleagues harassing me and being threatened to get fired I started to sleep poorly and put on a lot of weight despite exercising and eating well. A lot of the times mental health, especially sleep quality, is more important as it will affect your physical health as well.
ryanobjc 7y ago
The only people who say "don't do X" are those who have no interest in X, and just enjoy being moral scolds, and don't have a serious interest in improving anyone's life, despite what they claim. Because if you are serious about improving people's lives, you must meet them where they are, not where you imagine they ought to be. To use another analogy, being a moral scold is dealing with the world as 'oughts' when the world is a series of 'is'. By another analogy, if you had a child who was having a problem with some vice, if you were to merely periodically send them a letter or mini-lecture pointing out they ought not to do the thing, you would be open to accusations that you did not do your best to help them. Now obviously on the internet you cannot just reach into everyone's lives, but carrying about with overly broad rhetoric leaves everyone with the sense that after hitting 'reply' one sat back self satisfied they had made the world better by their words. So let me reup: food is complex, and anyone who says that eating healthy is easy is wrong. They might find eating healthy is easy for them, but empirically they're so obviously wrong - if it were easy to eat healthy, then there would be no type 2 diabetes.

copperx 7y ago

I'm sorry, but it isn't obvious at all to many people. Some people were taught that DNA is DNA and what you do doesn't change your genes.

ip26 7y ago

Isn't it a bit of a different message, "don't trash your body for the sake of your future kids"? I'm sure plenty would still disregard the message, but it adds a new facet.

journalctl 7y ago

What if I’m not having kids? I love a nice Manhattan.