An Open Letter to Mr. and Mrs. America
Dear Mr and Mrs America:
You don't look so good. You're overweight, and you spend too much for your own good. Everyone likes to pig out every once in a while, but come on! You can't feel very good physically, which translates into a bad mental state, I'm sure. Also, if you stop buying everything, you'll feel better. You just look so stressed out that you have to keep stimulating yourself through food and material goods - it looks tiring to me. What a merry-go-round! You don't have any time to think - no wonder you look to the media to tell you what you should think. No wonder we have such bad leadership with confused values, morals, religion, politics, policy all intertwined. You are the most powerful people in the world - you get to vote for the leader of the free world - we need you to slow down! Do some thinking for all of our sakes!
Some suggestions:
1) Debt - don't do it. Pay down your debt, even your mortgage, and build for retirement. See Ben Stein's writings on the topic. Do you want to live well? Less is more - don't spend and you won't need, and if you don't need, you'll have more to save for later. Next time you're in the store, ask yourself if you really need anything -- you really don't need a new SUV! Just go cold turkey, you'll feel free! That will bring financial freedom, which will reduce your stress and your need to eat so much.
2) When your stress is reduced, you should eat better, meditate, and work out. You should eat fruits, nuts (esp. almonds), a variety vegetables, whole grains (esp. flaxseed), legumes, and soy. Include some complex carbohydrates such as rice and pasta. Meat, except for fish, is not necessary, and on-balance, probably not healthy or environmentally friendly. Eat fish, especially salmon, mackerel, and eel for omega 3’s and vitamin D. Use olive oil or flaxseed oil only. Yogurt smoothies are a good filler, and can be a meal substitute. Try this: only eat fruit before noon. The world wants you to think you need more than this: more protein, more dairy, more meat. You don't. It's true, check the objective scientific literature. Longevity is linked to eating less, esp. less meat.
When you slow down, eat better, and work out, that will be good for you. You'll think clearer too and get yourself into much less trouble. That will be good for the world.
You don't look so good. You're overweight, and you spend too much for your own good. Everyone likes to pig out every once in a while, but come on! You can't feel very good physically, which translates into a bad mental state, I'm sure. Also, if you stop buying everything, you'll feel better. You just look so stressed out that you have to keep stimulating yourself through food and material goods - it looks tiring to me. What a merry-go-round! You don't have any time to think - no wonder you look to the media to tell you what you should think. No wonder we have such bad leadership with confused values, morals, religion, politics, policy all intertwined. You are the most powerful people in the world - you get to vote for the leader of the free world - we need you to slow down! Do some thinking for all of our sakes!
Some suggestions:
1) Debt - don't do it. Pay down your debt, even your mortgage, and build for retirement. See Ben Stein's writings on the topic. Do you want to live well? Less is more - don't spend and you won't need, and if you don't need, you'll have more to save for later. Next time you're in the store, ask yourself if you really need anything -- you really don't need a new SUV! Just go cold turkey, you'll feel free! That will bring financial freedom, which will reduce your stress and your need to eat so much.
2) When your stress is reduced, you should eat better, meditate, and work out. You should eat fruits, nuts (esp. almonds), a variety vegetables, whole grains (esp. flaxseed), legumes, and soy. Include some complex carbohydrates such as rice and pasta. Meat, except for fish, is not necessary, and on-balance, probably not healthy or environmentally friendly. Eat fish, especially salmon, mackerel, and eel for omega 3’s and vitamin D. Use olive oil or flaxseed oil only. Yogurt smoothies are a good filler, and can be a meal substitute. Try this: only eat fruit before noon. The world wants you to think you need more than this: more protein, more dairy, more meat. You don't. It's true, check the objective scientific literature. Longevity is linked to eating less, esp. less meat.
When you slow down, eat better, and work out, that will be good for you. You'll think clearer too and get yourself into much less trouble. That will be good for the world.
posted by Matt P at 4:43 PM
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