Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

>Dr. Jennifer Foltz, a pediatrician who helped compile the report. She, like other public health officials dedicated to improving the American diet, concedes that perhaps simply telling people to eat more vegetables isn’t working.

Jesus, you didn't know this? Really?

I have been bombarded with "this is healthy", "this is not healthy", "you should eat so much of this, so much of that, only a little bit of this" ever since I was four, possibly earlier. Same goes for all the calls to exercise, the cute campaigns to "exercise 30 minutes a day", "take the stairs", etc, etc, et fucking cetera.

So why, after all this time have they still not realized that the reason I (and mostly everybody else) don't exercise isn't that we don't know we should, it is that exercising sucks, getting sweaty takes time and then you have to clean up again, getting back and forth to the gym, etc.

The same thing goes for eating healthy, although it is _slightly_ ofset by carrots, which are very tasty.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: