Santa: Not The Healthiest Role Model

An article in the British Medical Journal damns the guy's diet and exercise habits:

Santa is a late adopter of evidence based behaviour change and continues to sport a rotund sedentary image...Santa promotes a message that obesity is synonymous with cheerfulness and joviality...But this is not the only example where Santa’s behaviour and public image are at odds with contemporary accepted public health messages...[he] makes a reckless role model, noting his frequent cookie snacks, occasional cigars and refusal to don a helmet during “extreme sports such as roof surfing and chimney jumping.”

Full-text needs a subscription, unfortunately. Hat-tip to Fooducate.

Comments

[AdySan]

Hey, how have you been doing? Have been waiting for an update for a while now. You're still on the meat diet aren't you? Any problems yet?

[David]

Yup, still on it, and it's working out great. I'll post an update pretty soon.