A document from the University of British Columbia in Canada is under heavy fire (no pun intended).
The document defends the removal of nutritional information from university menus because putting the number of calories next to an item can be “triggering” for some students.
“It can be triggering for those with disordered eating habits or eating disorders,” the document to students read. “For those of us who have a rocky relationship with food, either in the past or present, it can be triggering when we are presented with caloric information, and it can affect our ability to repair our relationship with food. By stepping away from nutrition information, we can place a greater focus on the enjoyment of food and creating a satisfying experience.”
In a recent podcast, Joe Rogan recalled a viral video showing a female professor “talking about how avoiding certain foods is ‘fatphobic’ and ‘it’s not based in science.’” The woman also said, “you shouldn’t deny yourself donuts” and “to call some food ‘junk food’ is incorrect.”
“How are you ever speaking publicly on this?” Rogan wondered.
The host suggested that by demonizing basic information, “they’re raising the most non-resilient people possibly known to man, where every single micro-aggression, every single thing that can trigger you, all those are removed, and you are just raw and vulnerable.”
Derek from the More Plates More Dates YouTube Channel said,
“We’ll protect you in this university system, and then spit you out into the world where you will then infect corporations with this ideology — and that is what we’re experiencing,” he said.
“It’s wild how the shift to comfort mentality has very much become commonplace,” Derek added. “I feel like this is partially why men’s testosterone levels are dropping too — just like the lifestyle and encouragement to be a sedentary soyboy who is offended and insulted by literally everything. None of this is conducive to masculinity.”
He’s right, you know.
The average college age male in America is a feminized, soyboy neckbeard weakling that cries at the prospect of tearing off a coal tar pitch roof on a commercial building.
And Their College Professors
The first 2,000 people in the phone book, good or bad, are more likely to live in the real world than many professors embedded in some strange construct of the real world. And that experience will endow them with some sense of how things actually work. That’s the difference between them and the average theory-laden college professor.
Academia is a magical world where nothing is truly fixed and everything exists on belief. Change the belief they say, and you change the reality. It's a meta-world that has a certain fanciful appeal for intellectuals, but little relevance to the world of reality where things do not change because a theory does and where outcomes are hard and real and the consequences of a bad theory can mean lives lost.
Bring back family farms, manual labor, dirty jobs and that wonderful sense of accomplishment that becomes a soft pillow at the end of the day.
And eat food for fuel, not for fun, regardless of the ramblings of overweight college professors.
"God is working in behalf of His people," wrote Ellen G. White. "He does not desire them to be without resources. He is bringing them back to the diet originally given to man. Their diet is to consist of the foods made from the materials He has provided. The materials principally used in these foods will be fruits and grains and nuts, but various roots will also be used.”
To avoid confusion on the matter, Ellen White explains what she means: "Again and again I have been shown that God is bringing His people back to His original design, that is, not to subsist upon the flesh of dead animals"(Counsels on Diet and Foods, pp. 81,82).
Be healthy, and enjoy life!
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“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep” (Ecclesiastes 5:12).