So beginith the rant:
I love my grandma. We as a family poke fun at her a bit about the random warnings she is famous for bringing to our attention. She will start a conversation with "they say" and we all know what follows will be sensationalized gold.
For example "they" at one time told us that eating eggs was like drinking lard and gasoline mixed with meth. Then in three weeks time "they" said that eating eggs was the healthiest way to gain valuable protean. Then a few weeks later "they" said that really just the egg whites were the healthy part and the yellow yoke (also known as flavor) is the devil's poison. Alas, "they" were not finished just a few months after that "they" said that not eating the yoke of the egg was costing you valuable nutrients that are good for you. This egg egg-zample is just one of the many cases where "they" have told us something is killing us only to later tell us how good that killing substance is for us.
Who is "they"? They is the media in all forms. You see they have to fill hours of broadcast time and somewhere along the way someone realized that people actually trusted what reporters supposedly received from experts as a mirrored copy of the information run through the normal people wording filter so the masses can grasp the needed information. When this trust was realized some jackass somewhere had a thought, "You know if I blatantly make crap up and sell it as gospel fact people will not know the difference, because people are lazy and don't read." Well this breach of trust opened up the gates to the unholy media nightmare that we suffer today. Think about how many times you have heard, "What is killing your kids that you use every day. Details at six." Seriously if something were actually killing your kids don't you think that news would warrant an interruption of regularly scheduled programming? But now you're freaked out because you love your kids and you use stuff every day. Now you will watch a poorly drawn story using one study's numbers skewed out of proportion, and they will have told you that vinegar leads to brain damage and Windex causes aids. Actually it makes me throw up a little in my mouth every time I think about it.
As many of TV watching masses of this country this out right attack on our intelligence has made me distrust everything said by every news person all the time. (Global warming? Global cooling? Climate change? Hole in the ozone? Killer bees? Y2K? Ash from volcanoes? El Nino?) I've beaten this dead horse before, but yet another example has come to light one I've written about before.
Go back and have a read Moo Juice.
Now today I read that chocolate milk is a great way to lose weight and build muscle... Wait? What? Schools actually were not killing children by infecting them with fat? A person can drink some chocolate milk and benefit from its milky goodness? The positive aspects of chocolate milk amplify an active lifestyle? Was Marshall actually right when he said that the cause of childhood obesity is not what the kids eat but what they do? Does the blame fall not on the school lunchroom, fast food, or soda manufactures, but on the shoulders of parents who do not force their children to play? Or how about liberal educators that ban physical education because sometimes a fat kids gets picked last? Here's a great way not to get picked last... work harder on being not fat. How? Burn more calories than you take in. How to keep your kids from being fat? Make them actually move around for a few hours a day, and give them some chocolate milk.
So endith the rant.
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