The Problem with Healthy Food - Or How the Cow Killed Itself!

Why is it so easy to put on weight but hard to take it off?  I feel like we should be more upset that all the food that's bad for us tastes so delicious while all the stuff that's good for us tastes like hot garbage.

Kale?  Oh, you mean dirt lettuce?  Tell me again how dirt lettuce is good for me.  It may be good, but there's not enough of anything to put on Kale to not make it taste like dirt.  Maybe what we should do is feed Kale to cows, we eat the cows, and by proxy we ate Kale.  Maybe the real problem is we aren't feeding our food the right kind of food.

"Here's a delicious steak that ate nothing but Kale for the last two months of its life."
"And it was ethically killed for our consumption?"
"Actually, it committed suicide!"

So, what I'm saying is, there needs to be a way to make food that's good for you not taste like dirt.  It can't be that hard!  If McDonalds can make chicken nuggets (which are delicious) out of stuff that's not even real chicken, then how hard is it to make healthy food not taste like crap?

And there is the dilemma:  I don't eat something because of what "health" effect it has on me.  I eat something based off of how it tastes.  I'm sure almost everyone does that.  And if food smells like feet before I even eat it, safe money is I won't be eating it.

So, all I'm saying to the food industry is find some healthy crap that doesn't smell like feet or farts and I'm in! 

Ashley Graham and Cheryl Tiegs

When I saw this story, it took me a moment to remember who Cheryl Tiegs was.  That's not meant as an insult.  Once I saw her face, I remembered her.  She's a svelte blond who had a pretty face and a rail thin body.  She wasn't of the "heroine" models of the Kate Moss generation.  She was a Sports Illustrated Swim Suit model in the 70s or 80s I believe.  I know it wasn't the 90s.

She said the following about Ashley Graham, the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim suit issue:

"I don't like that we're talking about full-figured women because it's glamorizing them because your waist should be smaller than 35 [inches]. That's what Dr. Oz said, and I'm sticking to it," she explained. "No, I don't think it's healthy. Her face is beautiful. Beautiful. But I don't think it's healthy in the long run." Link to article here.  

First off, let me say that I don't think she meant to say anything to maliciously hurt someone's feelings.  The truth is, when was the last time you heard of Cheryl Tiegs?  And I think with the fact that Ashley is getting all this publicity for being plus size and being on the cover of Sports Illustrated is great.  She's gorgeous.  All of her.  Not just her face.

And I suppose that's where the issue comes in.  It's something that all "plus size" girls have heard at one time or another.  "You have such a pretty face."  "Your face is beautiful."  Which, while it's meant as a compliment, I think, it's also sort of like there is a part of the sentence that's missing.  "You have such a pretty face...for a fat girl."  "Your face is beautiful...it's the rest of you that's ugly."

Now, I'm not saying she meant it that way at all.  But that's how I read it.  "Her face is beautiful." Dr. Phil always says that the most important word he finds in a statement is the word "but".  It basically means disregard everything I just said, cause here's what I really think.

Again, I don't think Cheryl meant to hurt anyone.  I think she spoke her mind and didn't think of the ramifications of what she was saying.  This all goes back to that  Nicole Arbour stuff where she said that "Fat Shaming" wasn't a real thing.  Unfortunately, it is.  You can be shamed about anything.  If you think that Fat Shaming isn't real, do you also think Slut shaming isn't real?  Do you think that religious shaming isn't real?  Shame is a feeling.  It occurs whether or not someone meant that as the intention.