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To solve the Obesity Epidemic: Tax Couch Potatoes’ Remotes

Lester Golden
4 min readDec 2, 2020
Charge him to click and he’ll get up to chance the channel (https://www.dreamstime.com/free-results.php?securitycheck=92496f852304754b1dab7cfe2128adbd&firstvalue=couch+potato+tv+remote&lastsearchvalue=&srh_field=couch+potato&searchby=couch+potato&s_free=y&s_cc0=y)

The man in the image is a ubiquitous Anglo-American, Aussie, Kiwi, German, Russian, and with wine, Spanish, French, Italian, Argentine and ______ classic, fighting a losing battle against his own inertia and gravity. Combining TV remotes with a toxic industrial food system makes an obesity epidemic inevitable. Add the collateral damage of healthcare costs the rest of us pay for through taxes and higher health insurance premiums.

Our remote-wielding beer chugger exemplifies the latest in human evolution:

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1146863-march-of-progress-parodies The march of progress: from bonehead to burgerhead and looking down, and saying, honey, who stole my feet?

He’s certainly not going back to a pre-Neolithic paleolithic diet, no matter how many celebrities tell him it’s a great idea and however it might improve his health. 250000 years of human evolution, 97% of which happened before agriculture, designed us for scarcity, not abundance, impulse and appetite control, whatever the…

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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