The second in a series of random observations and fleeting thoughts that flit through my mind lately whenever I walk about in public and observe the average, brainwashed, indoctrinated and oblivious American Sheeple.}

Article by HawaianLibertarian

The Definition of Insanity

Most people have heard of the old “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting it to come out different.”

The old maxim popped in my head the other day while I was standing in line at the grocery store, watching a FUPA in front of me loading up her purchases onto the checkout stand’s conveyor belt.

For those unfamiliar with the term, FUPA stands for Fat Upper Pubic Area. In other words…not typically overweight people, not even obese people…but morbidly obese folks.

And it seems like there are more and more of them everywhere I go.

Now lest you think I’m taking this opportunity to cruelly point the finger of ridicule on the morbidly obese, let me make myself clear: seeing such people makes me sad and angry. I’m NOT engaging in an exercise of cruelly indulging in personal character-diminishing schadenfreude here.

I’m sad and angry that we live in a society and culture for which lies and propaganda propagated for a wide variety of reasons, has resulted in a populace of people that have been slowly poisoning themselves to death on foods under the mistaken notions of what is and what is not a nutritious and healthy diet.

And while I do feel pity at the victims of these lies and propaganda, I still hold people to a standard based on my own values of personal accountability. Which brings me back to my observations of the FUPA lady piling up her assorted grocery choices onto the conveyor belt at the checkout stand and my opening quote about the definition of insanity…

Why can’t this lady, like millions of other people out there who are morbidly obese, make the connection between all of the food products she’s buying and consuming, and her state of extremely ill health?

Her cart was overflowing with diet cola, fat free frozen “Weight watchers” dinners, fat free dessert cakes and crackers and chips, and fat free yogurt and fat free ice cream, along with meat and produce.

How many years can such people continue to buy and eat this garbage, and see the kind of results that look back at them in the mirror every day? Is it not INSANE?

Take a look at any packaged, processed food item found on the shelves of the grocery store…most of these products have some sort of label indicating “fat free” or “Lite” or “Low Fat.”

As I’ve written extensively on in the past, one of the biggest lies ever promulgated by the giant Food processing industry was the implications via marketing slogans and promotions on their labels that eating “FAT” makes you fat. There are literally thousands of products in grocery stores that all promote this absolute lie.

Hell, you can actually buy ground meat that is CHEAPER because there’s more fat in it’s content.

And you have people, herded to their grocery stores like sheep, mindlessly buying these products and eating them…thinking they are at least trying to do something about their dreadful health problems associated with morbid obesity…and actually contributing further to their problems.

Than they get desperate and resort to literal modern day butchery procedures like bariatric surgery, to try and fix a problem…rather than actually deal with taking an objective look at their dietary choices and come to the rational conclusion that eating all of this fat free and lite foods ISN’T WORKING!

But I guess the conventional wisdom and current zeitgeist as promoted endlessly by our mass media culture is too powerful a force to overcome.

There’s a reason why large scale dairy producers have a vested interest in selling and promoting all of this ‘fat free’ and ‘lite’ dairy products: all of the butterfat is the primary ingredient in producing the highest quality ice cream and butter..which of course sells at a premium price.

And what better way to make a fortune off of both ends of the spectrum than to take the fat from the dairy to produce a premium priced dessert foods and taking the leftover, de-fatted, de-flavored, and de-vitalized by-products, add a bunch of sugar and perhaps natural and artificial flavors, and than sell it as health food? And millions of fat and obese people buy this stuff thinking it will help them in their futile battle of the bulge that they are so obviously losing…

The situation here is absolutely ludicrous…I still have a hard time accepting that people are so deluded and brainwashed by marketers and duplicitous government agencies that have colluded with processed food manufacturers and giant agricultural corporations into promulgating such dietary lies, that they are unable to make the connection between their ever expanding waistline and all of that fat free, lite “food” they’re buying and eating?

I almost wanted to grab this lady by her shoulders and point to her grocery choices and than point to her FUPA and ask her if she can’t figure out why she’s buying all of this “health” food and not getting healthy? HELLO?!?!? IS THERE ANYBODY HOME?

It disgusts me.

Worse yet, I cannot be too judgemental, because it was only about 4 years ago that I myself awakened from the blue-pill reality of our matrix-like existence.

I was developing my own unhealthy deposit of belly fat and a double chin while shopping exactly like this lady I was observing.

I was drinking diet soda every day.

Eating “low fat, low sodium” turkey bacon.

Ground Turkey substituted for all of our recipes that called for ground beef…because they were “leaner.”

Sustitute sour cream. Fat free yogurt. Substitute sour cream that was “lite.” Fat free Coffee Mate “cream.” Fat free soy milk instead of real milk. My wife and I were buying and consuming this artificially produced CRAP for YEARS.

I graduated from High School weighing 155 lbs.

Only when I hit 220 lbs. at 32 years of age, and had to begin contemplating buying new clothes to accommodate my expanding waistline, did I finally take a good hard look at my diet and come to the conclusion that something wasn’t quite right…I finally asked the questions about the conventional wisdom I had unwittingly followed for years:

What if it had all been a big fat lie?

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