*calories 840From: Third Age Gluttony Is Good for You
Eat up. The fatter you are, the less likely you are to get depressed and commit suicide.
Clichés only turn into clichés because they’re true. Otherwise, they just become a weird thing that someone in a bank once said to you.
Scientists in Bristol in southwest England have discovered that fat people are more cheerful than their thin peers. This was just a revivification of the ancient (well … maybe 25-year-old) wisdom that says you shouldn’t go on a totally fat-free diet because your brain needs its fat surround to keep from crashing against your skull. That makes you depressed, apparently. But you don’t have to be obese to maintain this fatty covering; you just have to not be anorexic.
Nor is this a reworking of the slightly less ancient study that found that people with notable self-control, people who weren’t “appetitive,” were more likely to be depressed.
The usefulness of this survey was opaque. It appeared to demonstrate that hedonists were happier than puritans. Nobody needs a scientist to tell them that. They just need to study the works of Chaucer. Or Dickens. Or most TV soaps. The people enjoying themselves are the fat, jolly ones. The people who worry about how they look, and what people think of them, and what God might think, and whether drinking too much mead will turn out to be a signal that they are bound for hell — those people don’t enjoy themselves so much.
January 8th, 2006 at 6:19 am
…[the people enjoying themselves are the fat, jolly ones.]….. I don’t know….I wonder if they appear to enjoy themselves, but down inside themselves, they are crying and lonely, thy’re wanting to be thinner.. If that isn’t true, why the popular weightloss programs????
I do agree with the rest of that sentence…..because if we aren’t pleasing God, and doing it His way…we won’t be enjoying ourselves where we end up…and have no one to blame for the mistakes we made……….But ourselves……..
Praying for you today. Your calorie intake this week is very good. Are you feeling ok? Are you feeling filled?
Lord, you are showing Editor so much, and she is really listening and following your leading. Bless her in ways she doesn’t expect today. Fill her with Your Word and Meet hers and Dick’s needs today and all this week.
January 8th, 2006 at 6:34 am
I don’t know. I thought this was very odd, but from experience I know we have the funniest people on the planet on our Grace Today Dieters Board. And they all are so courteous. Wonder what happens when we all lose weight? We become a horror story like a great deal of message boards are? LOL
I am fine. Thank you for your prayers. The first week I just wanted to re-group and steady my appetite. I will be going on 1200 calories from now on out. I got a good start and that is what I wanted. Lord, bless, Angelic today as she gives and blesses so many others in her vocation, in her church life, her family and in our fellowship of members at Grace. Amen
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
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