Survival of the fittest… we’re trying to stop evolution

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/business/26kidmed.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Read that damn article… sickening. There are a couple of people to blame for this crap. First, we have the parents. I don’t care how educated your parents are, they most likely don’t know jack shit about nutrition. My father has a PhD in construction engineering and management, and my mother has a master’s degree in sociology. Do you know what all of us (my siblings and I) had for breakfast, afternoon snack, and lunch every day from 6th grade til fucking college? Breakfast was either a sugary cereal, like coco puffs, or chocolate chip pancakes (I’m talking everyday here). After noon snack was at school. All the kids used to make fun of me (I didn’t mind, I actually found it funny, too) for bringing a damn mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich. No, there wasn’t any cheese in the fucker. Why? I don’t know. But it was a fucking mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich with an apple. When we came back home, it was fucking chicken nuggets, hotdogs, and French fries. That’s sound fucking nutrition right there. My two younger brothers are as fat as fuck. I guess their metabolism hasn’t kicked in yet (shit runs in the family from my dad’s side. I got it when I was 17-18 and lost a ton of weight for no reason, my younger sister is the same. My older brother and sister were thin all their lives… well, most of their lives.). Anyway, my younger brothers eat junk 24/7. I’m talking world class crap on a plate. Things I wouldn’t eat on my cheat day (well, nah… I’d eat anything on my cheat day). My youngest brother, Fahad, drinks frappacinos non stop. And when he isn’t drinking that shit, he’s making his own concoction of oreo’s, milk, ice cream, and hershey’s chocolate syrup all mixed in a blender. This is just something he does when he’s thirsty. Food? He would be better off if he ate a mixture of butter, sugar, and flour… I’m serious. The shit he eats makes my eyes pop out. And my parents are ok with it. BUT GOD FORBID THEY CATCH HIM WITH A REDBULL!!!! OH NO!!! RED BULLS ARE DANGEROUS!!!..... they read it in an email, so they’re watching his red bull intake. But it’s ok for him to down 500 grams of sugar and 200 grams of fat a day. And I’m talking about an educated middle class family here. Since I always see my brothers and sisters lie to other people by saying “no, our parents would never let us eat that” just to look better in front of people, I’d assume other people lie too. Just like the men that say “a3oothu billah!!!” when anyone mentions alcohol, then the next weekend you find their cars in Bahrain parked outside of bars that have Moroccan whores. Anyway, my point is that parents don’t know shit about nutrition, no matter how educated they are. Oh, another story!!! This is recent. A friend of mine told me about a “ridiculous” thing (I would use another word, but he’s my friend and I don’t want to offend him) his father said when they had guests around. Now, his father has a PhD in computer engineering… this is what he said “they have discovered that one of the miracles in dates is that if you eat an even number of dates, your body will process it as sugar, and if you eat an odd number, your body will process it as protein. And that’s how they used to survive back in the day without protein.”… again, coming from an educated middle class parent.
Most grown ups wouldn’t know healthy if it hit them in the face. If you ask my dad, he would tell you that his daily diet is as healthy as can be. You ask my family and they’d say that he eats very very very healthy food. You ask anyone else to take a look at his diet and he’d say “wow, I wish I could eat that healthy”… My dad once caved in (My dad and I are probably the two most stubborn people on earth. He says I’m wrong, I say he’s wrong… but suddenly, he found out that eating whatever he wants and jogging 3 times per week for the past 15 years didn’t get him anywhere. So, he wanted to know my points of view), and he asked me for diet advice. We sat down together and we wrote down what he eats on a daily basis (he was pretty consistent)… here’s Mr. “healthy” total macronutrient breakdown and calories
3800 calories per day (they were more, but I let him off easy)
55% carbs, 35% fat, 10% protein
Healthy my ass. Just because it includes a banana, some cheese, a glass of juice and some veggies doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

Secondly, I blame the educational system. The only thing you learn at school about nutrition is “make sure you eat from the 5 food groups”. To me, you only have 3 food groups… they are
1- crap
2- unbalanced “healthy” food, which is still crap and just as bad
3- balanced meals with good ratios from fresh food
Crap is anything you buy from a restaurant.
Unbalanced healthy food, which is still crap, is basically your regular home cooked meal.
Balanced meals are basically fresh foods (or nutritious food) bought from the grocery store that isn’t processed (no corn oil or sunflower oil or shit like that), cooked any fucking way you want, except for deep frying the damn thing, and served in portions that have sensible macronutrient ratios. Proteins and carbs aren’t healthy at anything above 40% or lower than 30% on the long run. For fat, you need 20-30%.

Yet still, your typical healthy meals are as follows (I’m talking about Saudi Arabia here)

1 egg fried in 2 tbsp processed sunflower oil or 10 grams of butter, 1 or 2 pieces of Arabic bread (even the whole wheat kind is crap), a piece of la vache que ri cheese or however the fuck you spell it, 1 tbsp jam, orange juice…
This would come out to 10 grams of protein, 100 grams of carbs, and 25 grams of fat…
That’s fucking 665 cals with 5% protein, 60% carbs and 35% fat. It looks fucking healthy to you, but it aint.

What would I do for you to eat a 500 calories meal in good ratios that contains all those foods? Try this:

4 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 2 slices fat free cheese cooked as an omelet in 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil. 3 slices bread (not Arabic… and it doesn’t matter if it’s white or whole wheat), 2 teaspoon jam on one of the slices of toast , 1 small glass of low fat milk (around 200 ml)

How does that fucking sound? 35 grams of protein, 54 grams of carbs, 11 grams of fat. That’s 455 cals with a ratio of 31/47/22

Let’s take lunch for example…
1 chicken thigh, 1 chicken wing cooked in oven (neglecting the fact that it is drenched in oil and your eating the fucking skin with it), 1 plate of rice (around 2.5 cups of it), 1 laban.

That’s around 15 grams of protein, 125 grams of carbs, and 30 grams of fat. A good 830 cals that is considered a “light” lunch for most. The ratios are 7/60/33… that’s protein/carbs/fats… basically crap.

How can you make it better?

2 Skinless chicken cooked in the oven, 1 cup of rice, veggies, 1 low fat laban, 2 teaspoons olive oil on the chicken or whatever.

That’s 55 grams of protein, 55 grams of carbs, and 15 grams of fat. A nice 575 calories with a 40/40/20 ratio.

How hard is that???
Do you see what I mean when I tell you that even healthy food is considered crap in my book???

Ofcourse, they don’t teach you this shit at school. Why? I don’t fucking know. Obviously, they’d rather teach you something called “wataniya” than teaching you about something that will actually make you healthy.

Finally, I blame the poor innocent child that doesn’t want to get off his lazy ass, because if he did, he might not go up a level in world of warcraft for missing an hour of playing that stupid game.

As for the title of this post… I got the idea from someone else who explained this in a very good way. Nature has a way of annihilating the weak. It’s called survival of the fittest. Those who are a burden on society’s back usually die quick when they are left to be independent (in a survival sense). A child who is 100 lbs overweight by the time it’s 10 years old is obviously the weaker link. If we let nature take over (instead of pharma companies… whose main goal isn’t to cure people, mind you), that kid would’ve been dead. So would his fat parents.

The really sad thing is that they are depending on medication rather than being a human being. So, they’re basically pigs on xenical with no will to live.

I do the same to my health, and I could be a burden on society. I smoke… sometimes heavily. Being doing so for a while now. But if I ever start coughing in a painful way, or notice some ill side effects, I will quit. Just like if I see my blood test. If something is out of whack, I will immediately do the necessary to fix the problem. I’m not saying “oh look at me, I’m super man”… I’m probably one of the unhealthiest people out there. But my message is, if you see something wrong, fix it immediately. Fat people get fat… then they get fatter… then they start having trouble breathing… then they get diabetes… then they get fatter… then the doc says you’ll die if you don’t lose weight… then they get fatter… then the doctor puts them on statins, metformin, xenical, meridian… etc. and the fuckers are still eating big macs non-stop!!! If the doctor (whom I don’t trust, and never will) ever told me “hey, you see that big black cloud as big as your head on the x-ray? Yeah, that’s your lung getting ass raped. 2 more years and you’ll probably be dead if you continue.” I would immediately smoke the last couple of cigarettes in the pack (I can’t throw it away!! I paid money for it, damn it!!) then quit.


All I’m saying is if a kid is over 20% fat, you should kill the parents… until that kid turns 20 (I’m giving him 2 extra years after 18 to cut him some slack). If he’s 20 and he’s still 20% or more bodyfat, he should be laughed at.