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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Rubicon, we don't often agree but this time I agree with what you have said. I would just add this: Those who were complaining about negativity, were simply projecting their own negativity onto the OP. It was like they were saying, "how dare you bring these facts to our attention, don't you know we prefer to have our heads buried in the sand?"
As a society, we can't take corrective action if we don't know what the problem is. Step one is knowing what the problem is today, step two is making reasonable projections into the future, if no changes are made, and step 3 might be a discussion of possible corrective actions.
This is exactly what this board was designed for and this thread represents the first two positive steps above. However, when anti-health-people come to a thread like this, with negativity in their hearts, all they are going to see is negativity.
Perhaps they know instinctively that the solution is going to involve living a healthier lifestyle and they have long ago rejected any such solution.
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And perhaps they are simply tired of reading post after negative post from the same people who rarely if ever have anything positive to say. It gets old, and just like repeatedly lecturing your kids when they were younger caused them to turn you off, so does the constant negativity, warnings, "facts," research, or whatever some posters want to call it.