Happy Monday,
Hope you are all managing to eat well, move daily and get your vitamin D over this lockdown.
We have concluded biking is the number one sport/recreation for lockdown – there are families/individuals biking everywhere which is awesome! Fresh air, movement and sunshine. Great for the natural immunity.
Along with bike rides, walks, scooter rides, runs, and kb training (Paul and I had a competition who could do max snatches without putting the kb down – we managed 70 to draw), we have been making the most of enjoying quality time with the family. We have a baby seal at our nearby beach visiting, so this has been fun for the kids to visit daily and say hello.
Anyway, on to todays topic: The Vaccine, Gyms… It’s time to get controversial
I thought it was time for a good old RANT
Now before I get into this rant, I am going to say – I am all for anyone getting vaccinated. Choice is choice. This post isn’t about that “other” controversial topic
What utterly pisses me off is some of the back to front ideas we have for encouraging people to get vaccinated (So far, many of these haven’t hit the shores of NZ and hopefully won’t).
Free fast food for those that are vaccinated. The incredible irony of offering junk food in exchange for taking a vaccine, for a virus that time and time again has shown to be devastating for the obese population.
How about free Donuts – seriously??
According to a World Obesity Foundation report, death rates are 10 times higher in countries where more than half of the adult population is classified as overweight.
Living with excess weight puts people at greater risk of serious illness from Covid-19, with risks growing substantially as BMI increases.
It doesn’t stop there. We have had alcohol, tobacco and many many fast food chains exploiting covid and vaccines.
Not a SINGLE government in the world has used the covid crisis as an opportunity to greatly educate their populations on how to live more healthy.
Many gyms around the world were closed
Even though research data assessing 49 million visits to private health and fitness providers concluded a virus rate of 0.002%. Tobacco on the other hand is an “essential” and freely available which kills 70% of smokers.
When I see the governments favour fast food, alcohol, tobacco etc – all of which are instrumental in illness and a degraded immune function – as ‘essential’ and freely available, while making the solutions that build health illegal to open or at the very least simply ignored, it doesn’t fill me with confidence.
My closing message
If we the people want to lower the total burden of chronic disease, survive another pandemic, save our planet and our communities, create a less divided and happier community, we need to change the way we think about, grow, produce and disrupt and consume our food.
We need to move away from this quick fix, junk food mentality and start to make better choices.
Maybe, just maybe – one day health and fitness will be seen for what it really is and get a seat at the table.
Paul “I would be okay with being bought off by a FERG burger though 😉 ” and Krystie “natural immunity first” Miller
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