# And Another Disease Joins the List of Those That It's All Your Fault if You Get It. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767 "2011-07-20T21:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/41 "2011-07-22T01:10:26Z")
I should add, lest anyone misunderstand me, that I think deciding to live a fast and loose lifestyle regardless of the risks is a perfectly valid choice. I’m no health and fitness nut. My lifestyle isn’t perfectly healthy by any means. I just think that one should take responsibility for one’s own actions and accept that there are potential consequences, instead of whining about the messenger because one doesn’t want to know certain things. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/42 "2011-07-22T01:12:36Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Read the OP again. It’s not that complex. It’s as complex as the wookie defence and makes as much sense. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/43 "2011-07-22T01:24:18Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > No one, except causality, is _threatening_ you with anything. . Mother Nature may be a bitch, but Causality is a downright cunt. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/44 "2011-07-22T03:53:45Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I should add, lest anyone misunderstand me, that I think deciding to live a fast and loose lifestyle regardless of the risks is a perfectly valid choice. I’m no health and fitness nut. My lifestyle isn’t perfectly healthy by any means. I just think that one should take responsibility for one’s own actions and accept that there are potential consequences, instead of whining about the messenger because one doesn’t want to know certain things. Then let me ask, why are _you_ being so defensive? You come back twice after your original post to say, “…And another thing!..”? I must’ve really touched a nerve there. I’m not whining about my life choices. I’m perfectly aware that diet and exercise are important. I think everyone else is as well. So why must this simple fact be pounded into our skulls on nearly every broadcast of the news? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/45 "2011-07-22T03:56:52Z")
Yeah, everyone hates a serial point-clarifier! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/46 "2011-07-22T04:41:54Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I’m not whining about my life choices. I’m perfectly aware that diet and exercise are important. I think everyone else is as well. So why must this simple fact be pounded into our skulls on nearly every broadcast of the news? Hardly any news is outstandingly surprising or original. That some new link has been found between diet and exercise and some significant disease is probably in the top few percent of originality. If you feel like this is “nagging” or being “pounded into your skull” merely because it is not inordinately surprising or original then either you presumably find 95% of the news unbearable, or you have some particular defensiveness about the topic. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/47 "2011-07-22T04:49:17Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > If you feel like this is “nagging” or being “pounded into your skull” merely because it is not inordinately surprising or original then either you presumably find 95% of the news unbearable, or you have some particular defensiveness about the topic. Strange how the BBC news manages to have newscasts without the nagging. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/48 "2011-07-22T05:36:58Z")
Maybe a link to this “nagging” news article that claimed Grandpa died because he was a fat slob would be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/49 "2011-07-22T06:00:26Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Strange how the BBC news manages to have newscasts without the nagging. BBC News does everything in a less sensational way. If you chose to watch a more sensational commercial channel, then I’m sure the alzheimer’s report was done in dumbed down sensationalised exaggerated way. Just like all their stories. And it probably conformed to stereotypes and common tropes and was highly unoriginal. Just like all their stories. But not all of them hit a nerve with you, so you don’t whine about how you don’t want to hear the message you are being given. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767/50 "2011-07-22T13:46:32Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I watched a report yesterday on the national news claiming that diet and exercise can prevent Alzheimer’s Disease. So it’s all granddad’s fault if he’s got this horrible disease. He must’ve been a lazy gluttonous slob. So your suggestion is…what? When studies show up an apparent benefit of a 40% reduction in Alzheimer’s risk for people who do a little aerobic exercise once a week, no one should ever mention it… to spare your feelings? No one says your obligated to _do_ anything with that information, but it’s a little over the top to whinge about even hearing it, or to characterize it as a personal attack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-another-disease-joins-the-list-of-those-that-its-all-your-fault-if-you-get-it/589767.md?page=2)