Monday, September 26, 2005
The importance of digestive health
The importance of the role of good digestive health in maintaining emotional wellnes cannot be overemphasized.
If you watch the national news broadcasts of any of the major networks with any kind of regularity, you will notice that there is a disproportionate number of commercials for fiber. Commercials for antiacids run a close second.
Folks, we live in a constipated, caustic society, and the symptoms of our dispepsia [sic] manifest themselves in our political life. Perhaps if our elected leaders were to eat more whole wheat bread, we wouldn't be having all this trouble with unnecessary wars both international and cultural. If the voters ate more fish high in omega-3 fatty acids rather than fast food dripping in trans fat, maybe we'd have found Osama bin Laden or solved the Social Security crisis.
People like to think of their gastroinestinal tract as working away tirelessly and anonymously, like a silent mill, completely separate from other more important aspects of personhood. This fallacy must be revealed for what it is -- an outmoded view imposed on us by paternalistic white men at the drafting of the Constitution.
Only when we free our tummies from the binding effect of nachos and chicken fingers can we free our collective minds from the bonds of prejudice and ideology.
[This piece was adapted from a larger work published in The New Yorker.]
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If you watch the national news broadcasts of any of the major networks with any kind of regularity, you will notice that there is a disproportionate number of commercials for fiber. Commercials for antiacids run a close second.
Folks, we live in a constipated, caustic society, and the symptoms of our dispepsia [sic] manifest themselves in our political life. Perhaps if our elected leaders were to eat more whole wheat bread, we wouldn't be having all this trouble with unnecessary wars both international and cultural. If the voters ate more fish high in omega-3 fatty acids rather than fast food dripping in trans fat, maybe we'd have found Osama bin Laden or solved the Social Security crisis.
People like to think of their gastroinestinal tract as working away tirelessly and anonymously, like a silent mill, completely separate from other more important aspects of personhood. This fallacy must be revealed for what it is -- an outmoded view imposed on us by paternalistic white men at the drafting of the Constitution.
Only when we free our tummies from the binding effect of nachos and chicken fingers can we free our collective minds from the bonds of prejudice and ideology.
[This piece was adapted from a larger work published in The New Yorker.]
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