If there is one thing time has proven, it is that the more the State does for you, the less you feel like doing for yourself. Personal responsibility has gone the way of the dinosaurs.
If someone feels bad about being fat - they don't have to: it's not their fault. Not poor dietary choices, not lack of exercise, not life style issues or laziness or ignorance - NO!
A pesky bacterium causes these overweight problems. Please don't bother to make any healthy adjustments - take this pill. Or, if you live in Texas, let the tax payers pay for bariatric surgery - and then let them pay again for your failing health for the REST of your life.
As you can tell, I am in a bit of a ba!humbug! mood. And I do know that some people do all they can, and still can''t lose weight.
The cynic in me peeps through and wonders whether the fast-food chains may be behind this research!! It would certainly get them off the hook if they could say our food? make people fat?? Nonsense! It's the bacteria in their gut.
On the subject of personal responsibility and will, I highly recommend Mark Steyn's book America Alone. If we don't wake up to some of what he says soon, it may well be too late.
