Skool is Funner in Colledge

My health teacher is a bit of an extremist.

Actually, how can someone be only "a little bit" of an extremist? It's an all or nothing deal and with her, it really is all or nothing.

I am sure you have seen her previous comments on the side of the blog and let me just tell you, there are many more that I can't even remember to write down.

Since I am not much of an exerciser, I couldn't really argue with her beliefs of 60 minute workouts for 6 days a week. However, when we started talking about nutrition, I had a bone to pick with her. Every 206 bones I had in my body.

She was preaching false doctrine. Here are some of her "truths":

1. If you eat more calories, you won't gain weight. If only this were true! I was shocked at how wrong she was so I let her know.

Teacher: "If you eat more calories, will you gain weight?"
Class: "mumblemumble..no.mumblemumble."
Me: "Yes!"
Teacher: "Who said yes?!"
Me: "I did! It say's right here in the book 'Karen eats an extra 200 calories of snacks a day. If she keeps eating this way, she will gain weight'."
Teacher:"......well, yes....If you don't use your muscles!"

Oh geez. So you're pulling the "use your muscles card"? Again. Like every day.
It's not like everyone can find time to work out. If you do, great but you still need to watch what you eat. Except maybe Michael Phelps.

2. If you don't work out, your brain with atrophy. Um....Actually, no, It won't. According to wrongdiagnosis.com, there is a list of 64 causes of brain atrophy and not one was due to lack of exercise. Not one. I guess you can argue that brain atrophy will occur when you have Huntington's disease and by exercising, you will decrease the progression of it but even then, it is still only indirectly related.

It would be like me saying, if you don't shave your legs, you will die. Perhaps you will, since maybe no guys will like you and you probably will become depressed and die young but because it is so indirectly related, it really isn't a valid argument.


3.If you exercise, your brain cells will increase. Good news Ozzie Ozbourne! You can be cured with a little bit of running to nowhere! I believe that you can constantly re-connect your existing cells, otherwise, we couldn't learn new things but as a matter of brain tissue, it's absurd. If this was true, why aren't professional football players also quantum physicists as well? Because they don't get more brain cells when they exercise!


4. Olive oil is the best oil for you. Actually, false. Although olive oil is a healthy alternative to vegetable oil, canola oil is still your best choice.
Many people believe that by eating olive oil, it will reduce your LDL (bad) cholesterol but this is only if you replace it with the existing oils in your diet. For example, if you consume 60 g of other oils a day and then replace it with vegetable oil, your LDL's will lower but not because the olive oil made it go down, it's because it just never got high to begin with.
Olive oil can actually reduce your blood flow as well up to 31% whereas canola oil does not.



These are only 4 examples of her craziness that ensues during class and I am sure there will be many more to come. I thought college was supposed to make you smarter.