Technology makes you fat
September 20th 2006 03:03
Well Mario's weakness is mushrooms, just can’t get enough of 'em
Technology does make things a heck of a lot easier, everything is so streamlined now, you send emails instead of letters, and even for inter office communications nowadays (who wants to get up and walk over to the next cubicle anyway?) you can travel great distances without so much as breaking a sweat in a car. Your work probably requires little physical activity, and what it does contain is your fingers moving all over the place on a keyboard. Here is an article on how technology affected world wide obesity.
But what about the ‘what goes around comes around concept’? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Couldn’t all this technology also make us thinner than we are?
Well in a way that’s possible, in the most literal sense we have treadmills among various other exercise equipment. However we have other more novel ways, do a Google search on ‘weight loss technology’ and you’ll see what I mean. It is probably all nothing but fad, but damn if they aren’t tempting fads. Let me know if you try any.
However, nestled in between all of those hyped products is a blog by Troy Janisch who says it all in the iPod as the single magnificent weight loss tool, iPod, I Run. As he says (quoted from his site) “I find myself using it almost exclusively for “reading.” For $15 per month, I subscribe to two books per month from Audible.com”. This encourages him to go out and go for a little jog.
You see, the thing here isn’t that technology makes people fat, its that technology is exploited by people to make themselves fat, the same way they might stuff food in their mouths get fat as a result then blame the food for it. Its silly and I think what Troy Janisch shows is that its not the technologies fault that makes you fat, but yours, and how you choose to exploit the technology for either your good or your bad.
I believe I shall coin the term ‘fatology’ for people who believe it is technology that makes them fat. Whoever follows this line of thought if a ‘fatologist’ and is more likely than not looking for an excuse for being so fat and not doing anything about it. I'll extend the definition for all overweight people who like to blame their weight on other things and act as if helpless.
So people, I urge you to find ways of using all your technology FOR your benefit rather than lack thereof, and when you do or if you already do, post here and share with us (I do doubt it being a possibility, but theres always hope).
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