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June 5, 2017
I was standing in line at Starbucks today and a conversation at a nearby table caught my attention. It was 3 middle-aged men sitting there, and one of them was going on and on about his opinions on weight. "Being overweight is what's unhealthy! Think about it, you don't see fat people in nursing homes. That's because they don't live long enough to be there." The other 2 guys sat there nodding in agreement.
I almost intervened.
There were so many things wrong with this conversation. Here are a few of the things I wanted to say but didn't:
I chose not to say any of these things because I didn't want to publicly shame him, and I suspected it wasn't going to change his mind. There's a time and place for activism, and I decided that wasn't it.
So here I am, at my computer, still pondering the situation. Besides the ignorance, it also had me thinking about where we take advice from. If the other 2 guys sitting with him are taking him seriously they're getting advice from someone who is obviously uninformed, unqualified, and not to mention unkind.
A short list of people who you shouldn't take health-related advice from:
There are a lot of people out there willing to give you advice about what you should and shouldn't eat, and what you should and shouldn't weigh.
Most of them are wrong.
Be a skeptical and wise consumer of information.
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