My sedentary lifestyle where most of my physical activity is concentrated on moving my fingers over keyboard keys and making sounds come out of my mouth has finally caught up with me. Add to sedentary the stress of teen-age transitions into adulthood and increasing job responsibilities that appear to happen in the 50's and you hit the medical trifecta. Sigh.
So, I am leaving this rather glum meeting and heading to where I am going next and there on the side of the road is a billboard for a large national restaurant chain advertising pancakes. I thought to my self that we tell young people that they can't smoke cigarettes because its bad for their health and therefore bad for society. There should be some sort of prohibition against people over 50 eating pancakes. You'd have to show a card from your doctor or something giving you permission to eat pancakes.
Come to think of it, if advertising cigarettes on billboards is illegal, why is advertising pancakes legal? According to my doctor, pancakes are as bad for me as cigarettes are for teenagers.
Come to think of it, if pancakes and cigarettes are so bad, why do we need to have them at all? Right. They're very profitable - especially pancakes.
Profit trumps benefit. That's not really fair because profit is a benefit. I guess its a matter of perspective.
Thankfully, I don't really even care for pancakes that much. Some members of my family are pancake fanatics (pan-fan's, I guess).
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