Whats the excuse for ignorance these days

fez

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There seems to be a constant stream of articles, documentaries and posts on social media about how people are doing things that are bad for their health or generally doing things incorrectly. I understand that 30 years ago if you wanted to learn about something you would have to either talk to someone who was an expert on the subject or perhaps get a book out. Now we have the internet.

Apparently people don't cook healthy meals because they don't know how and they need educating. Just go on the internet. Instead of spending 4 hours on facebook looking at cat videos, look up nutrition. We all have the tools to do this so what is the excuse.

I was just watching a documentary on people addicted to taking protein supplements. It takes literally 30 minutes to go online, figure out how much protein you should ingest for your body weight and the amount of exercise you are doing. The fitness industry is full of rubbish I know but there is a massive massive wealth of really good information out there. There are few other sports/pursuits that are taken as seriously as bodybuilding and diet.

So the question is why do we have such an issue with doing things properly when the information is literally at our fingertips. If I want to know how to do something I go online and I have hundreds of videos from experts on the subject.

I know that lots of topics are merely a matter of opinion but if you read a few things you should have a decent idea on a topic.
 
fez said:
If I want to know how to do something I go online and I have hundreds of videos from experts on the subject.
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these people just don't care? They are not bothered about the example topics you gave in your OP.
 
The cause and effect are too far apart. If you suffered pain every time you ate junk food, you'd soon stop. Instead, the 'pain' is a long way into the future.

On the other hand, the 'rush' of eating crap hits you immediately. You feel good for having eaten something tasty.

You're fighting against mammalian instinct. Animals will get fat too if you give them free access to unnaturally high energy food.
 
cheesyboy said:
The cause and effect are too far apart. If you suffered pain every time you ate junk food, you'd soon stop. Instead, the 'pain' is a long way into the future.

On the other hand, the 'rush' of eating crap hits you immediately. You feel good for having eaten something tasty.

You're fighting against mammalian instinct. Animals will get fat too if you give them free access to unnaturally high energy food.
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Its people who claim they don't know how to cook healthy food. The government are always saying that its lack of education that causes obesity when I completely disagree. Its laziness and the fact that food that is bad for you is easier to consume, quicker and feels good.
 
izzop said:
OP, I presume you watched the documentary mentioned in this report...?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38555693/protein-supplement-advert-claims-wrong-and-immoral

As it mentions in the report, people believe they can get the bodies portrayed by the advertising straight out of a bottle. The mistake a lot make is not using supplements as supplements.
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Thats the one. I mean how ******* stupid can you be to think that protein supplements will give you a body that takes years of dedication and training to create. You have to be an idiot to think that and I have never seen any supplement advert that gives that impression either.
 
fez said:
Thats the one. I mean how ******* stupid can you be to think that protein supplements will give you a body that takes years of dedication and training to create. You have to be an idiot to think that and I have never seen any supplement advert that gives that impression either.
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Regularly the men shown on said advertisements for protein products are supplementing their testosterone levels. The fitness industry is pretty divided with those who are honest and open about their usage and those who pretend eating 8 meals of chicken and rice a day as a 40 year old got them there.
 
It's just that humans are extraordinarily bad at picturing far future events.
If you gave someone a cigarette and said to them "Smoke that and there's a 50% chance you will die immediately" then no one would take that gamble. Tell them they have a 50% chance of dying in the next 40 years and many would just go "Meh" and spark up.
 
fez said:
Its people who claim they don't know how to cook healthy food. The government are always saying that its lack of education that causes obesity when I completely disagree. Its laziness and the fact that food that is bad for you is easier to consume, quicker and feels good.
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They probably don't know how to cook healthy food that's as tasty as junk food. And it's not all that easy, really. I (or my wife) scratch cook a lot of the food my family eats but, honestly, it's rarely as 'nice' as just eating crap.
 
If you ask me people watch too much crap on 'fitness'. Youtube is full of 'experts' who know jack ****. You got retards like Rich Piana giving advice on lifting, yet he's a oil filled weakling that has a massive small man complex.
 
fez said:
There seems to be a constant stream of articles, documentaries and posts on social media about how people are doing things that are bad for their health or generally doing things incorrectly.
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How many of them follow up with an advert for the "correct" things, which they just happen to sell... ?

fez said:
The government are always saying that its lack of education that causes obesity when I completely disagree. Its laziness and the fact that food that is bad for you is easier to consume, quicker and feels good.
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I disagree in part - People simply get hungry. They eat whatever is most convenient and/or tastes good and makes them full. This typically contains a LOT more calories than they either realise or care enough about to work off, during our increasingly sedentary modern lives, and so people get fat.
If there were nothing but rice cakes and lettuce, I'm sure people would pig out on those.

Moses said:
A) people are dim.
B) if you google things to do with health/fitness you get loads of conflicting information... that confuses dim people.
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And so begins the circle of arguments over who/what is a reliable source of info. If you believe none you're uninformed, if you follow any of them you're misinformed.

cheesyboy said:
They probably don't know how to cook healthy food that's as tasty as junk food. And it's not all that easy, really. I (or my wife) scratch cook a lot of the food my family eats but, honestly, it's rarely as 'nice' as just eating crap.
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That's because junk food is packed with flavour-enhancing guff and people have gotten used to that. For example, bacon flavour crisps are more bacon than bacon, it would seem...
 
just to reply to your title rather than the context of health, it seems people are ignorant through lack of intelligence.
i hate getting invovled in discussions on subjects others know very little about yet are highly opinionated on it. The dross that gets spouted makes me rage yet their only source of information is something they half read in the daily mail years ago.
 
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