Fortunately or unfortunately I was born in America that it's citizens believe in excess (The 1940s to the present).
If an 8 oz bottle of soda a 16 oz bottle must be better. If a 16 oz bottle is good lets get a 32 oz bottle.
Go to a buffet for a meal, we must eat until we can't leave the table, wait around so we can go back and eat some more after all we must get our moneys worth.
There are even some that believe that several PHDs is the only way to go.
We believe that water is so health for us that they drink it till they get sick.
There are people among us who are billionaires and aren't happy because they aren't rich enough.*
Vitamins are generally good for us so many of us over dose. Is 10000mg of D or B really healthy?
We love our television so much that we have so many shows that the only way we can keep up with all of them is by having someone else tell us about them.
Too much salt in a person's diet can be catastrophic, so some doctors put real restrictions on salt intake.
Too little salt can be a killer as the New England Journal of medicine points out.
Does running ten miles every day make you healthier then running 1or even power walking for 30 minutes?
We know that being over weight is bad for your health, but a 40 lb grown women* has less of a chance of living then a 500 lb man.
Doctors tell us that we should be on the bottom scale of BMI, but statistics tell us that people on the upper side of BMI live longer.Fact statistics tell us that being slightly over weight you have a better chance of living longer then being on the under weight.
* I don't recall who's quote this is; You can never be too rich or too thin.
(1)BMI -Body Mass Index
(2) I do thing in excess myself
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