Posted on 04/20/2020 4:28:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s our favorite vice and our true national pastime: Here in the land of plenty, Americans love to overindulge.
We eat too much, drink too much, snack too much, sit too much — then rely on the marvels of modern medicine to repair our battered bodies. And that makes us easy prey for a brand-new infection like the novel coronavirus.
“This is on us,” Nicole Saphier, MD, told The Post. “We left ourselves vulnerable to this epidemic. Our health-care system would not be so overwhelmed right now if it was not already overwhelmed with our preventable chronic illnesses.”
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Mary Kay Linge can kiss my keester.
I approve this message. LOL!
Hey Mary. If you’re so healthy, go ride the subways without PPE.
She’s flogging her own book and using COVID to do it.
Oh for crying out loud who is this dumb ...jerk?
I will be starting my diet of spring water and sprouts tomorrow. First I have to finish my second bag of Doritos.
That reminds me, I’d like a Twinkie right now. Not the snack food, I’m talking about Mary Kay Linge.
The USDA “Food Pyramid” has made us fat. The American Heart Association’s calling any low-fat/high-sugar food “heart healthy” has made us fat.
Right now, I’m very glad I went keto a year ago and am 35 lbs lighter now & off my blood pressure medicine!
I’m in line at DQ.
Hard to deny that. One of the reasons I’m opposed to socialized medicine is that it involves largely socializing the risk of overeating, lack of exercise, drinking, smoking, and drug abuse. And I say that as someone who has been guilty of the first four.
Dr. Saphier is eating PRETZEL chips with guacamole as her splurge?
How gross is that.
Just get some non-GMO tortilla chips.
Everybody knows pretzel chips are for hummus.
And then they put high cholesterol on the list of deadly associated conditions - so a mere lab number is going to kill me? More like it’s a condition associated with others on that list. If I have a cholesterol of 250 and NONE of those other conditions, I highly doubt it’s a problem.
A while back people were raving about the life-extending benefits of the Mediterranean diet. How’s that working out for Italy and Spain? You might instead argue that they should adopt an American diet. Or better yet, shut up, because you really don’t know, either way.
I know her. She’s the girl that takes names when the teacher steps out of the room. She’s the one who reminds teacher that she hasn’t given weekend homework yet. She’s the one with the white Keds tennis shoes that never get dirty, even on a rainy day. Her lunchbox is perfectly packed with individual containers of celery sticks, carrot sticks and crustless pimento cheese sandwiches. I hate that girl
Nag, nag, nag! Holed up all day and we’re not even allowed to eat our comfort foods?! I’m waiting for a study to say tofu and cottage cheese are linked to cancer. They’re already linked to nasty Karen attitudes.
I quit watching Fox & Friends in the morning. I am tired of waking up to all day long covid 19 coverage.
Tired of all the sappy we are in this together garbage. No we are not. Just listen to the foulness from fake news.
Sick of it all. I do not think I am alone.
Hmm perhaps I was too specific
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