This article that Lew links to strikes me as just more of the same old stuff. Hailed as drugs for “treating disease” (uh, right), these pills promise to “trick the muscles into thinking they have been working out furiously” because they can help people to grow more Type I muscle fibers. Note that so many of these modern drugs – outside of those that actually fight disease – are drugs that promise more results from less effort. This comes at a time when the government is centrally planning our lives through forced fascism and state-controlled advertising, trying to legislate smoking, obesity, food consumption, alcohol, marijuana, steroids, etc.

These kinds of pills are just one more way for Big Pharma to get millions of people hooked on its highly-profitable drugs as opposed to actually getting active, becoming fit, and being strong. Strong, intelligent, healthy people are a threat to the state, as opposed to the overweight, energy-lacking, weak, sickly, pill-dependent types. That’s why you need to declare your independence from all of the nonsense and attempts at control.

Additionally, one other thing that fits into this topic. I blogged about the Wii just recently, after reading several articles on its “fitness” benefits, and after having two people (adults) tell me they play Wii to “work out.” People who convince themselves that those idiot boxes are equated with “fitness” will make great tools of the state. In addition to Wii, another one of my favorite “workout” gimmicks is this thing called iGallop. You actually sit on this thing in front of the tv (which is how they market it), and it vibrates you as you “ride your way to fitness.” If there is a single person out there who believes this nonsense, they deserve both Wii and iGallop, on their credit cards, paying 29% interest for 10 years.