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Originally Posted by JTULLOCK
Answer to the first paragraph...you do need food to survive, but not tons of food to survive. It doesn't take over-eating to be over-healthy. Like you said it can be addictive. Keep in mind that people need or take drugs to meet needs for health issues, headaches, etc. but also that is addictive. If my Mom were alive she would tell you so.
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I agree. However, my point is that we can't just teach/preach against food, can we? LOL!!!! People have to eat. So it becomes a more complex problem than other addictive substances. It's easy to say, "Just say NO to drugs", or "Don't DRINK!!!!" But you can't say, "Don't eat." You have to teach people
how to eat, and
how to live, and in most cases eating right and living well are in stark contrast to the normal American way of life.
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Reaction to paragraph 3....Look I can't speak for Keith, but for me I am trying to say that there are a GREAT number of overweight people in the movement not that all of them are nor that all the fat people in the world are part of the UPCI or some other OP org. That is not what I am saying at all and I don't think Keith is either. No one here is saying that all the UPCI is fat nor that the majority of the fat people are in the UPCI.....I repeated that just to make sure that it is clear.
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I looked at the WPF pics that Keith referenced (and some from another page on the site as well), and my thoughts were that it looks like a normal cross section of our culture,
especially if you consider income, and there is a higher rate of obesity among lower income Americans.
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Most of the rest of what you wrote is true or seems so. This being the exception-if the people in the UPC or other OP orgs that are overweight couldn't it be because a LACK of exercise? I think that if someone got up and spoke about this at GC or Camps or something it would be tought to find someone to even talk about it cause it seems that MANY of the 'famous' preachers are too overweight to speak about it cause it makes them seem like a hypocrite. IMO
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I wholeheartedly agree that a LACK of exercise is a BIG problem. (pun intended
) Jeff and I try to keep our kids active, the girls are in basketball, Jeffrey is in baseball now, they're not allowed to play their video games or be on the computer for more than an hour a day, and TV is a privilege--not something they're allowed to just vegetate in front of for hours on end. We must be doing something right, because when given the choice, our kids would rather be outside riding their bikes or playing than inside watching TV or being lazy. And they're all three slim.
However, it isn't the church's fault in most cases. I think families don't take the time to be creative, OR they don't see health as being a priority--and
that needs to be taught from the pulpit.
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