Health and Society
Statistics show that the primary causes of death are coronary diseases and cancer. When professionals delve into that kind of data they all start saying how we don't live well, how we should improve our way of living with more physical activity and better diet. Jogging, cycling, raw vegetables and fruit! Yeah. They all say how it should be, there's never any analisys on why it isn't so already. Until I see those reasons exposed I'm calling them all a bunch of dilettants.People should want to exercise and eat plants. If after those health litanies I still see a person enjoying his/her existing way of life then there's something fundamentally wrong in trying to convince people to enjoy a "better life". Just placing ads telling us to eat fruit and vegetables five times a day won't have any significant impact. If you're targeting the society then you have to change the society, not individuals. One simple way of doing this is to drop taxes on healthy food, and to somehow motivate people to exercise. By changing the mindset do you change the opinion on what joy means. Invite, not suggest. I've observed that people around here like to take suggestions as a mild form of an attack, a judgement or a critique. The more "drastic" and personal suggestions are, the more of a feeling of repression they get. Just do a simple invitation. Drop taxes. Implement some kind of a financial stimulans for persons that decide to exercise. I don't know, finance some minimum number of hours in a sport club for exercising. Lower life insurance rates. Give people an incentive by properly changing the society.
posted by AlesS @ 2/18/2005 11:51:00 AM
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