The New York Times is on a desperate mission to absolve overeaters from any responsibility for their poor physical condition. In the last year alone a spate of mindless articles have been published colluding with the fat and the unfit to reinforce what they’re always telling anybody who’ll listen: “It’s not my fault!”
So here we go again. Now it’s our gut bacteria that’s keeping people from doing what they damn well know they have to be doing in order to stay mobile, balanced, energetic, healthy, attractive, youthful, etc., etc..
The shopping baskets, kitchen cupboards and refrigerators of overweight people tell the true tale, always. Overweight people consume more calories than they burn. This simple fact being a ridiculously easy thing to fix, people instead complicate the issue extraordinarily so as to justify their choice not to.
Hey NYT—who exactly does this article and others like the aforementioned serve anyway? No articles showing studies that reinforce the life-enhancing benefits of eating nutritionally rather than recreationally and a challenging exercise routine exercise appear as regularly or on such a high profile manner in your newspaper. Obviously there are a lot of overweight, not-my-fault people on your staff—and an army of readers in denial you're kowtowing to.
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