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1st September 2007
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Pleasure is healthy; guilt unhealthy
The Centre for Consumer Freedom e-mailed an interesting report yesterday called "Government-Mandaded Guilt."
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news...m/headline/3440 In addition to noting several appalling examples of modern weight hysteria, the report (correctly) observes that the individuals and organizations which are trying impose guilt on women for their natural love of self-indulgence take a coldly utilitarian view of food -- and of life. As the report observes, Quote:
Very good points. But what especially intrigued me in the report was one of the links -- to a medical study from several years back; a study that reveals just how damaging guilt is to women's health; and conversely, just how beneficial pleasure is to a woman's well-being. http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=16552 Many of these findings are stunning, and fly directly in the face of present-day weight-control propaganda. Here are some choice excerpts: Quote:
I wish these results were better known, and I wish more women would take them to heart. Now, we know -- the best thing that any young woman can do for her health is to free herself from guilt, to eat whatever she wants, and as much as she wants, and to fully enjoy the health-giving pleasure that she feels from doing so. |
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1st September 2007
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Re: Pleasure is healthy; guilt unhealthy
A small but growing segment of journalists are breaking from the pack, and are acknowledging that being full-figured is actually healthy, while being malnourished is unhealthy.
Here's an op-ed piece from an Oklahoma newspaper: http://www.cushingdaily.com/editori...eyword=topstory It slams (as the author puts it) "the ‘crises du jour’ mentality of the special interest pressure groups that crank out apocalyptic scenarios on a regular basis in order to drum up publicity and donations"- which is very true. After all, if the related weight-control industry (from diet-pushers to weight "researchers") admitted that their was no weight "problem" at all, their profits would dry up, and their research grants would be pulled. Ergo, they manufacture a non-existent "epidemic" to keep the money flowing. The author entertainingly contrasts the ugliness of today's anorexic cult with timeless beauty: Quote:
At last, people are beginning to see outside the present day and age. They are beginning to compare the timeless values of the past with the artificial values of the present, and are realizing that the values of the past were far superior- in every way. The author also points out that, even though the medical-quack community is pushing starvation and exercise-torture as a quick-fix cure-all, being underweight is actually what damages women's health the most: Quote:
As the writer concludes, "The conspiracy of thinness perpetuated by Hollywood, Madison Avenue, the diet industry and the national media must come to an end." It's time for young women to embrace their natural tendency towards being full-figured- which leads to a happier and healthier life (and enhances feminine beauty too). |
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3rd September 2007
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Re: Pleasure is healthy; guilt unhealthy
Actually, I started adopting different eating habits several weeks ago. I have totally quit dieting. And I will never go back.
Now, I eat whatever I like, whenever I like it. And I feel so much better. Just by no longer torturing my body with dieting, I even rid myself of a stomach-ache that I used to have. Never a diet again. Ever. |
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28th December 2007
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Re: Pleasure is healthy; guilt unhealthy
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The findings in these articles should hardly be so surprising. In any other era, they would have been self-evident. And yet, in the modern day, thin-supremacist brainwashing is so prevalent that these timeless truths have become "novel" and astonishing. But they only stand to reason. The essence of all life is that it endeavours to survive--and more than that, to thrive. The artists of the past (exemplified by the Old Master paintings cited in Kaitynn's article) understood and celebrated these life-affirming tendencies, and venerated full-figured feminine beauty as being a glorious expression of the highest fulfilment of nature's will. But modern culture, subservient as it is to artificial ideologies that contradict and stifle human essence, opposes all of this, and enforces an unnatural aesthetic that imposes the misery of starvation as a "norm" for women. This phenomenon results from an unholy alliance between materialist philosophy (socialism and so-called "social justice") and materialism itself (commercialism). Both the modern "left" (social, not fiscal) and the modern "right" (fiscal, not social) conspire to keep the androgynous standard in place, while the old aristocratic world-view, which valorized the natural mode of life, has been displaced. A different ideology, an ideology that eschews modernism, that rejects both philosophical materialism and dissatisfaction-based consumerism, and is instead governed by an organic view of existence, is needed to overcome the malaise of modernity, and to restore the timeless ideals of the past, which were in tune with, and celebrated, human nature. Lively stock image of a fiery vixen, demonstrating that passionate self-indulgence is pleasurable, healthy . . . and can also be quite alluring.  |
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