Caesar, an excerpt from "Julius Caesar"

William Shakespeare 1564-1616

You are doubtlessly informed of the incontrovertible outcome of that story as pertains to "sleek-headed men, with lean and hungry looks"?

I dont have any written testimony that "sleek-headed men, with lean and hungry looks", are any extra hazardess than tubby or obese men? Still; in William Shakespeare's era, he would have gathered much knowledge to that fact, to have written the statement in his acclaimed play; "Julius Caesar".

What do you think about William's quote if applied to the 21st Century?

My conclusions are that Caesar could feel comfortable in one of the developed realms in the year 2008! Why? Perhaps he would be largely surrounded by fat men, who could never be thought of as projecting a "lean and hungry look"! In essence a man or woman possessing a "lean and hungry look" in modern society is rapidly turning into a minority number. And the way the first world nations are heading with binge diets and severely under exercising.......not looking good at all for the future health of the population!

Last night I attended our local shopping mall for a spot of late night browsing. The time was approximately 6 PM. I found a table in my special cafe to order and enjoy a flat white...with 99% no fat milk of course! The multitudes rushed past. After several minutes I found myself carefully noting the quantity of mildly chubby, to grossly overweight men, women & children bumbling along with shopping trolleys laden with packages of heavily processed looking junk food! Tragically, they greatly exceeded the "lean and hungry looking people"!

The majority of trolley pushers had their children wondering around with them. I noted that exceedingly the average number of passing young children also looked extremely over fed...or is that exceedingly well padded in all the wrong areas!

Many parents were equally provided with excess fatty folds in all body parts.

Examining the coffee sippers sitting around my table again I was astonished at the huge percentage of overweight men, women and children in such a small coffee shop! The scary thing was that a lot were gorging into huge cream topped drinks, to help wash down scrumptiously, sugary, mouth watering, enticing cakes; invariably accompanied with a humungous blob of fat laden cream on the plate!

I thought I must seem as if I could not outlay the money to enjoy such pleasurable delights. I was one of the few coffee sippers not gobbling down huge quantities of sugary, fatty cakes...well you get the picture. All those delicious, irresistible foods that change healthy people into overly large, fat and consequentially "over tubby" humans.

Please observe, the point I am attempting to make is that this was at 6 PM! Most of these
overweight men, women and children were happily woofing down "fat laden" junk food at a time when, surely of necessity, these parents and children needed to have been at home providing their little "tubby" children some of the essential "five vegies with meat" or similar healthy foods. Not tucking into junk food in a cafe helping their children into future early heart attacks, strokes, sugar diabetes two, any types of cancers and for many; into the disaster of "childhood
obesity"!

The conclusion I would offer to these unthinking adults is this. Think carefully about the future health and wellness of your kids. Cook and present your little kids a healthy and nutricious evening dinner. You are responsible for the health and well being of your kids...no-one else. Substituting possibly your kid's most important and perhaps their only proper nutritional food of the day with fast food or eat in junk food is hardly being a responsible adult. Well, without a doubt not at 6 PM on a Thursday night!