Jasmine said...
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.” -Margaret MeadAs a loc'd, BMW driving, veggie and fish eating sista, God comes first.
What/How I consume is based on how I was raised. Luckily, my Mom put me and my twin bro in a Volvo 240 when we we got our licenses'. Volvo's are tanks and kept us safe in high school and college.
My Mom later advised us to get a Saab, which I flipped on a country road in CT. My brother and I survived the flip and I learned the importance of self preservation through consuming those products that keep us safe. Consumption can be based on ego/keeping up with the Jones'/keepigng the fam safe.
Her Side said...
Merriam-Websters defines conspicuous consumption as:"lavish or wasteful spending thought to enhance social prestige"
By that definition, the car. But... The junk food in that gentleman's gut can be seen as far more wasteful, because he isn't getting any return on his investment. In fact, he's getting a negative return.
At least a car has value when traded in... and if purchased by the right person... can actually increase in value at auction.
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“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.” -Margaret Mead
As a loc'd, BMW driving, veggie and fish eating sista, God comes first.
What/How I consume is based on how I was raised. Luckily, my Mom put me and my twin bro in a Volvo 240 when we we got our licenses'. Volvo's are tanks and kept us safe in high school and college. My Mom later advised us to get a Saab, which I flipped on a country road in CT. My brother and I survived the flip and I learned the importance of self preservation through consuming those products that keep us safe. Consumption can be based on ego/keeping up with the Jones'/keepigng the fam safe.
That car looks like something from a Snoop video. Before I can answer I'd like to know what is on that car?
LOL.
according to USA Today -they said it ain't the brothers fault! He just got microbes in his gut ( no shit DV).
Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
"Emory University researchers noticed that mice with an altered immune system were fatter than regular mice, and had a collection of disorders — high blood pressure, and cholesterol and insulin problems — called metabolic syndrome, often a precursor of heart disease and diabetes."
DMG's homies at Emory Research Hospital in Atlanta also said ,
"Everyone is born with a sterile digestive tract that within days is flooded with bacteria from first foods and the environment. Altered immunity in these mice meant somewhat different bacteria grew in their intestines than in normal rodents — driving bigger appetites, metabolic syndrome and a low-grade inflammation believed key to obesity's illnesses, Emory associate pathology professor Andrew Gewirtz reported Thursday in the journal Science.
To prove it, Gewirtz transferred bacteria from the fat mice directly into the germ-free intestines of normal newborn mice — and those mice began eating more and developed inflammation and insulin problems."
"transfered bacteria into a germ free intestine,"
Germ free shit!!!!Ha ha hee, DMG boy's just kill me.
HaHeeee Lawdy, Lawdy...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-05-germs-appetite_N.htm?csp=usat.me
Merriam-Websters defines conspicuous consumption as:
"lavish or wasteful spending thought to enhance social prestige"
By that definition, the car. But... The junk food in that gentleman's gut can be seen as far more wasteful, because he isn't getting any return on his investment. In fact, he's getting a negative return.
At least a car has value when traded in... and if purchased by the right person... can actually increase in value at auction.
""transfered bacteria into a germ free intestine,"
Germ free shit!!!!Ha ha hee, DMG boy's just kill me.
HaHeeee Lawdy, Lawdy..."
Ummm...the neonatal gut is bacteria free. I believe the article actually refers to this.
It's an interesting article and hypothesis, but the only thing comical is you acting like you even know what you are reading.
Crack a book.
Conspicuous Consumption is linked to the consumption of goods for short satisfactions. It is attributed to working & poor class people mostly since they seem to be the main focus of advertising & propaganda. It is certainly not the rich the main focus, but the consuming power is.
The mind of the working class is constantly and subliminally attacked through advertising, propaganda, music, etc. to fulfill its needs with this short satisfactions and to depict a higher social economic status.
The rich can consume & consume, and nothing happens. The middle class does that and goes broke.
It is not what the rich consumes or over consumes what makes conspicuous consumption, it's not their big boats & mansions. That's ego driven consumerism in some cases, but not always. It really depends what is in the mind of those who consume what makes the difference.
What do makes conspicuous consumption is the mind and action of the middle class consumer which are driven by the interests of the producers.
While in its original sense, conspicous consumption explores questions of social power and economic wealth, its application here extends to dietary pattern but in a way that raises questions, for me. Just because wealth v health are pitted against each other it does not mean the economic angle of consumption becomes redundant and we apply life over wealth as the sole approach.
Both are examples of pathological, conspicuous consumption denoting class and social power in different ways; whether that social power is achieved through a Benz or the lack thereof impacts adversely upon one's health.
However, it seems to me too easy an inclination to pick the obese man over the car because in this digital School, health is wealth - yet in this context, overlooks some of the ripple implications of that car as a symbol of social power and economic consumption, that extends to the global.
It's not simply a case of pitting an obese man versus a Benz because while that man may be doing detriment to his own body, what human capital was required to produce that car and to the detriment of how many bodies, if one investigates where the adornments of that car were sourced and for how much? (Assuming of course those are some kinda valuables on that car or its custom made to look that way.)Where was that car assembled? What is its retail value compared to its cost price?
Do these pics represent the divide between rich and poor in America? And what has that divide got to do with obesity? While some suggest this man is a product of fast food culture in America and choose health over wealth, those pictures aren't straight choices. They are very much a product of the same over-consuming capitalist culture; but different implications depending on where one stands in the prosperity food chain.
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