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If You Want to Be Unproductive, Follow These 4 Social Norms
1. Have sugar in and for everything
One of my favorite comedic sketches is Jim Gaffigan’s “Domino’s” piece:
“Why don’t we get a pizza and as an appetizer, we can have bread!” And for dessert how about this, bread.”
Gaffigan has another one about cake in which he pokes fun at how, between foods like muffins and pancakes, we find ways to eat cake all the time. I find it ridiculous that our society has normalized sugar.
For nearly every event we find a way to include a “requisite” sugary treat. It’s the norm to gift sweets around the holidays. We celebrate birthdays where we don’t eat anything healthy like its a badge of honor to be killing ourselves.
It’s no wonder so many of us are suffering mentally and physically. And struggling psychologically because we are unfit.
Ordinary people eat processed, sugary foods, including bread, all the time, without thinking about it.
But ordinary people also get normal, unproductive results.
Studies have shown that eating sugar, even in small amounts, negatively affects your focus, mood, memory, mental health, and stress levels. Do we ever stop to think that maybe the…
