What does it take to become a Health Nut?
Clearly, Health Nut is a put down which typically comes from the Normal Majority. These are your friends relatives and neighbors whom you consider to be the salt of the earth. They are the folks you celebrate the Fourth with, send Christmas cards to, do favors for.
Sadly, these important people have trouble with those who try to live in optimally healthy ways. That means being into daily sixty minute workouts, intelligent supplementation and low fat dieting. It also means being into things like green tea capsules instead of that sandwhich to "tide you over" or that quitting your workout early 'cuz you you just don't seem to have it today.
If you can do all of those things, not just one or two, I will dub you Health Nut. That's how they made knights back in King Arthur times. You did a certain number of good deeds and Arthur made you knight of the Round Table.
Today, doing these types of things gets you labeled. If this doesn't come from others (only because you're smart enough to keep your living habits under wraps) it comes from you. These are things mother never would have approved of unless of course you were out for the team hoping to win the state meet. Then it might have been OK, if you were sure to revert back to easy living and home made apple pie during the off seasons.
Health Nut so defined should be replaced by health conscious and it should be OK. I trust you do agree with me on that, don't you?Hint:: there might be an awfully larger number of healthy people in the USA today, ergo lesser health care costs.
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I remember 45 years ago when I first running around the block. That was first time that I got called health nut by someone my own age. I didn't think that I cared really, but the more that I think about it I guess that I did.
I always felt one down for doing the workouts that I did. My peer group thought this was just absurd; or maybe they thought I should only do it on the track at the high school we both went to. So maybe its just that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and thus a "nut"?
I don't know. I only know that we have this all with us still today. You generally cannot do your five mile around the block without having your neighbors say something derogatory. Possibly this doesn't bother you, but my guess is that it does.
So why not just keep everything under wraps by joining a club? I guess that's OK, but why you should you have to just to keep the next door neighbor thinking you are a mature adult? Besides, we don't have this kind of time generally, do we? I mean the time that it takes for a five mile might just be the kind of time that it takes to drive to the club in the first place. With hour long commutes that IS an issue, wouldn't you agree?
But the question of where does the term Health Nut come from hasn't really been answered. Maybe that's because its really just not necessary to do so. All that you should really care about is that it go the way of GIRL-- as that term term did during Women'sLib. That way you could feel psychologically OK for doing what is good for you.
That would be an improvement, wouldn't it? Or do you live in a neighborhood filled with marathoners?
Clearly, Health Nut is a put down which typically comes from the Normal Majority. These are your friends relatives and neighbors whom you consider to be the salt of the earth. They are the folks you celebrate the Fourth with, send Christmas cards to, do favors for.
Sadly, these important people have trouble with those who try to live in optimally healthy ways. That means being into daily sixty minute workouts, intelligent supplementation and low fat dieting. It also means being into things like green tea capsules instead of that sandwhich to "tide you over" or that quitting your workout early 'cuz you you just don't seem to have it today.
If you can do all of those things, not just one or two, I will dub you Health Nut. That's how they made knights back in King Arthur times. You did a certain number of good deeds and Arthur made you knight of the Round Table.
Today, doing these types of things gets you labeled. If this doesn't come from others (only because you're smart enough to keep your living habits under wraps) it comes from you. These are things mother never would have approved of unless of course you were out for the team hoping to win the state meet. Then it might have been OK, if you were sure to revert back to easy living and home made apple pie during the off seasons.
Health Nut so defined should be replaced by health conscious and it should be OK. I trust you do agree with me on that, don't you?Hint:: there might be an awfully larger number of healthy people in the USA today, ergo lesser health care costs.
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I remember 45 years ago when I first running around the block. That was first time that I got called health nut by someone my own age. I didn't think that I cared really, but the more that I think about it I guess that I did.
I always felt one down for doing the workouts that I did. My peer group thought this was just absurd; or maybe they thought I should only do it on the track at the high school we both went to. So maybe its just that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and thus a "nut"?
I don't know. I only know that we have this all with us still today. You generally cannot do your five mile around the block without having your neighbors say something derogatory. Possibly this doesn't bother you, but my guess is that it does.
So why not just keep everything under wraps by joining a club? I guess that's OK, but why you should you have to just to keep the next door neighbor thinking you are a mature adult? Besides, we don't have this kind of time generally, do we? I mean the time that it takes for a five mile might just be the kind of time that it takes to drive to the club in the first place. With hour long commutes that IS an issue, wouldn't you agree?
But the question of where does the term Health Nut come from hasn't really been answered. Maybe that's because its really just not necessary to do so. All that you should really care about is that it go the way of GIRL-- as that term term did during Women'sLib. That way you could feel psychologically OK for doing what is good for you.
That would be an improvement, wouldn't it? Or do you live in a neighborhood filled with marathoners?