[Marxism] Cuban sanctions linked to obesity in americans

[Greg McDonald]

Pat Costello wrote:

<Capitalism is a system that is not simply unjust and unsustainable,
it is unhealthy.
To blame the individual as Greg MacDonald does, for not resisting the
societal pressures just seems snobbish and republican party-ish.>

First off, try spelling my name correctly.

You are right to pin me on this, I am a bit snobbish on this issue.  
It comes from years of working with people one on one in the  
treatment room to try and get them to go beyond the fix me I'm broken  
mentality and to begin to think of their bodies as more than just a  
car that needs a tune-up or a part replacement every now and then. My  
job is half-cheerleader, half therapist. Most folks take a passive  
attitude vis-a-vis their bodies, and part of my job is to get them  
past that and give them things  to help work me out of a job. The  
last thing I want to do is create another dependency relationship  
with a client. So I've seen from personal experience how incredibly  
ignorant most people are with regards to their bodies. Of course this  
is not all their fault, but it does tend to feed into their passive  
attitude. I'm always pulling out the anatomy chart, talking about  
basic anatomy, kinesiology, movement patterns, nutrition, exercise  
physiology, etc.

So of course a critique of capitalist agriculture is important in  
terms of understanding the health crisis in the USA and other western  
countries, but it does not really help me in terms of dealing with  
people on an every day basis.

Greg McDonald