People who decide to lead a healthy lifestyle do it so aggressively that everyone around them immediately gets sick. These adherents of carrots and cabbage leaves easily turn those who disagree into ram’s horns, clearly demonstrating that vegetable protein is in no way inferior to animal protein. This unique transformation would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad. For a long time in society, all this was part of discount KVN jokes, but at some point the situation not only got out of control, it became uncontrollable and life-threatening.
Make a fool pray to God and he will bruise his forehead. Recently, Tatarstan children’s ombudsman Irina Volynets gave sad examples. In Krasnoyarsk, parents actually starved their two-year-old daughter to death by removing meat, fish and eggs from the diet and leaving only vegetables and fruits. The child began to develop anemia, became ill, the body became unable to fight, and the girl died. And in Sochi, a newborn baby died, whose blogger father decided to teach him a raw food diet and “sunlight feeding” from the first days. Analyzing these and other cases, the Ombudsman attempted to ban vegetarianism and raw food diets for minors. It is unrealistic to implement such an idea (although now is the time – anything is possible), but this great PR move draws attention to the problem itself.
It is clear that the idea of a healthy lifestyle is not new, but very old, just repackaged with bows. What is now called fitness was called aerobics in the Soviet Union; The run was a banal jog in the morning. Each factory had its own sports club, then called the Trades Union Sports Union. The origins of the Soviet healthy lifestyle arose from the revolutionary struggle for a new image of man. Posters “Take a shower after work!” or “Fight to keep the dining room clean!” – these were the first sprouts of a healthy lifestyle in its canonical sense.
The current healthy lifestyle differs from the previous one, like natural crab from crab sticks.
Advertising, trade, promotion, lack of real expertise – and now we are sold chicken eggs under the guise of a new special protein from Australian chickens specially brought to Russia for better egg production and bred to Chopin’s music. The price of a dozen is 570 rubles. And believe me, after three days of active advertising, a queue will form in the store. And in the next five days, there will be people whose adhesions dissolve from eating the yolks of these eggs.
The whole problem of today’s world is that the concept of “expert” has been completely destroyed. A blogger with 1 million subscribers who writes about sports, food and entertainment suddenly develops his own (!) signature (!) diet!
From where? Who are you in this field? What research data do you have? We don’t know anything about this. But now he sells seminars according to his personal method, creates special clubs for weight loss or physical education.
The general complaint against activists and healthy lifestyle advocates is one: don’t be so active! There is no need to advise everyone to start running right away! Because it is useful on the treadmill or on a special surface in the stadium. And on the asphalt in a stuffy city, for the average person who by the age of 35 already has problems with knee joints and several spinal protrusions, this is a direct path to injury of the menisci and ligaments.
Everyone wants quick results: Lose weight in a month, bulk up your hips in two months. Without taking into account that it is more difficult to do this at 35 than at 20. And the only thing fast about it is the carbohydrates. They go from cheesecakes to thighs in no time, but everything else doesn’t happen so quickly.
It is impossible to ban everything forever, as our politicians often suggest. In the field of a healthy lifestyle, this will definitely not work. But healthy nutrition institutes will have educational activities. The advice of exercise therapy doctors will come in handy, as he will regain his status, respect and salary. Advertising free courses to combat Alzheimer’s will help. And here, of course, I would like to capture this period before Alzheimer’s came.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.