Does Turkey Usher in an Invitation to Obesity?

Eating human garbage will turn our hard-earned cash into a body of trash.

Courtesy: sleepzine.com

(SALEM, Ore.) - When we say "gobble-gobble", are we strictly talking turkey lingo or making reference to our own excursions in gluttony? Have we swallowed the outdated myth that More is Better?

"Grab what you can" seems to rule the roost. Ingest to your heart's content, and pay no heed to the damage to your heart or artieries of the rest of rusting circulation system. Just give attention to your belly and make sure it is filled to the rim or moreso. Eat now, and deplete later.

The US Surgeon General's office has identified Obesity and its related disease as the No. 1 health hazard. And in strict dollars-and-sense terms, the vast majority of the Medicaid budget is expended on such diseases and the vast array of tests used to track human decay. Do you aspire to be among that number?

Look through newspapers and magazines. Temptation is omnipresent. Even TV ads are pitch to seduce our tastebuds through tasteless phraseology. "Come taste our yummy bummers" might well be more to the real point than telling us that the FDA has certified its bonafide nutritional value.

How you look is secondary to how you are impacted inside. If only our bodies were transparent and we were to see the damage rendered. Gluttony and obesity go hand in hand, and probably result from constipation of a logical brain. Impulse is the inner dictate, and each of us lose as we gain enormous weight. We who simply cannot wait will suffer a soon-sick fate.

Eating human garbage will turn our hard-earned cash into a body of trash. No cause for thanks there!

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Note: Lee is 5-2 and about 8 lbs. overweight as he pens this article. He fears every becoming the facsimile of a "Junior Buddha Belly".

Salem-News.com Community Writer Barry Lee Coyne brings to our readers stories from his combined career of journalism and gerontology, and explains that these paths shaped his values. This writer-therapist often views the world as the masks of comedy and tragedy placed upon the scales of justice. For him, optimism inevitably wins. "Lyrical Lee" has traveled to 30 nations aboard and was once a press intern at the UN. His first published article was in The NY Daily News in '59, dealing with the need for integrity in public office.

He also launched the nation's first tele-conference on health education for shut-ins, created the Eldermentors project in VA to pair retirees with immigrant students needing role models, and was the main catalyst behind CCTV's "Public Public" panel show here in Salem. Lee received his BA in International Relations and an MSW in community organization. He currently serves as a member of Salem's Library Advisory Board. To send Lee an email, please write to this address: To send Lee an email, please write to this address: notcoy@netzero.net