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This week – Obesity.
We need food to live. And add some on for fun and pleasure. But, just enough so that we balance the two nicely as our overall diet. We also have to ensure that we don’t overeat to keep our health in good shape. Well, that’s what we SHOULD do, but more and more people certainly are not. Human obesity is showing a sharp increase so this week at SMS we are going to consider this growing problem.
1. Easy Food, Easy Calories.
Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1990 and some 1 billion people are now classed as obese. This is a rapid rise in such a short span of time in human history. How come? Well, also in that time we have seen a massive increase in takeaways, food deliveries, and supermarkets open for long hours. Food is easily available and always nearby or on our plates without any effort. What comes easy too are the calories contained within this often not so healthy food option buying. Should we curb the ability for us to access food like this in some kind of regulation before it’s too late?
2. Consequence for Calories.
Health services everywhere are straining under the pressure from this obese epidemic. They have to deal with all the myriad of health conditions overeating causes in people from diabetes to poor mobility as examples. It seems the view is that somehow health providers will solve the issues that people have created themselves by their eating habits (I know some nurses who will confirm this). Trouble is the very same people come back again and again with more issues from not changing their behaviour. So, should their be a consequence for those that consume up appointments and treatments like they consume food? Should there be a limit of care for people who simply won’t help themselves?
3. Too Young to be Too Heavy.
Adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990 and in 2024 over 35 million children under 5 were already overweight. This is shocking and scary. The most shocking of all is children don’t get to choose what they eat, they require their parents to allow and pay for their meals. Children of the past were given the odd treat as part of a balanced, sensible diet. Not today. Again quick and easy seems parental preference too often. How do we encourage parents to cook better? Or is there another reason, such as adults are working longer and longer hours than ever and so have less time? How do we help children eat well again?
4. Bad Food Not Bad People.
People have lapsed into bad food choices. Yes, one is because it saves time and effort, but also, it can’t be denied, some of it tastes good. Food companies have created dishes that have an addictive quality. No wonder then that the average person keeps coming back for more, especially as they can get it almost everywhere. As a world, we are hooked on this. We don’t mean it, we’re not bad people. Addicts for the taste and favour. And there’s the problem. How can we remove or quell the addictive nature of foods that are causing the obesity issue?
5. Benefits for Better.
Right now our minds clearly don’t see the benefit in not being obese – better health, feeling more energetic, not needing medication etc. Our taste buds override this. The benefit is attached to the enjoyment not the ongoing improvements. Quick hits are far more inspiring that longer term positives. Maybe it’s time for other benefits as an encouragement to change diet. What benefits or mini reward can be given to those currently obese so that they improve their eating AND stay that way? How do we change behaviours with a benefit, especially for the young?
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and to solve some of the issues mentioned. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think. You have more answers and ideas than you ever previously thought possible!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
References – World Health Organisation – Obesity and Overweight.
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This week – Cost of Living.
Many things typify current life on Earth. Some have been around for a while, some are only recent. And the prime one among the recent is the cost of living. Not a week goes by without some product, service, or bill going up….and continuing to do so. It’s been a very long time since so many people at all levels are experiencing such financial challenge like this.
As such, SuperMind Saturday thinks we should get our minds round this contemporary concern.
1. World Worries.
Most countries have experienced periods of heightened inflation. Times when costs rose sharply far beyond incomes. Most of these were individual national cycles of expansion and reduction in the economy. One nation struggling, others more prosperous. Those days are in the rear view mirror nowadays. Due to bad management (or greed) by financiers, they have made it a cross world problem. Everyone gets the squeeze.
Is it time to return to national economic management? Should sharing debts and investments internationally by banks be banned or highly limited to protect vulnerable economies?
2. Living Beyond our Means?
The cost of purchasing every items like bread, butter, and milk have increased. So too the price of our energy and utility bills. But, look a little deeper and there is other spending people are making other than household outlays. In previous downturns that lifted inflation people cut their coat according to their cloth i.e. living within their means. No spending on what they really didn’t need. Not today. People still expect new clothes, meals out, holidays, social trips. What used to be luxuries are now classed as the norm.
Are we living beyond our reasonable means? Has the costs of living been replaced by the costs of pleasure and fun?
3. No Shrinkflation Profits.
Shirinkflation. A term that never existed ever until that last few years. It refers to how companies shrink the size of the product but still charge the same money (and even more in some examples). The price has effectively risen for the consumer while the producer gains in revenue and less production expense. It often makes the news especially in relation to big brand firms and supermarkets. During the last few years profits for some of these has increased through this practice. But they never tell us, they slip it onto the shelves all hush hush.
How do we protect the consumer from this underhand behaviour? Could we force companies to declare their shrinkflation items in advance so shoppers can make an informed choice?
4. Who is Paying For All This?
The world isn’t built on credit anymore. It’s built and held up by debt. Millions upon millions of citizens owe money on mortgages, credit cards, and other bills. Desperate to try and survive they have had to roll up debt to keep a house over the head and live there sufficiently. Debt used to be viewed as a bad thing. It appears it’s the very opposite in 2025. Debt is a normal function of economic behaviour. That’s a dangerous 180 flip.
Because if everyone owes, who is really paying for it? And what if they can never cash in? Is it all one big massive financial black hole that no-one wants to actually admit exists?
5. The True Cost of Living.
Poverty used to be a thing of the past. A historical social issue overall. That has begun fast reversing. Hard working people and families are being drawn into poverty because everything increases in prices but wages fall further behind. People who would never experience financial hardship in days gone by, find themselves in that predicament. So, some simple but profound questions….
Where are we going as a world when people can’t support themselves or family despite working flat out and to the bone? What direction do those in power really think we are going???
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Ok, that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think. You have more answers and ideas than you ever previously thought possible!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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This week – Aging Population.
The world is getting increasingly populated. Notably, every year more people are born than die putting pressure on resources, especially our social health ones. Greatest of all those pressures are how to deal with an aging population. Secondly, those that live longer and longer also no longer work and contribute to the economy in the same way, i.e taxes on earnings, work spending etc. This strains our social systems and that’s only going to get worse. SuperMind Saturday triggers new thoughts about this challenge.
1. Home or Hospital?
Modern hospitals aren’t just for treatment and health care anymore. They also tend to be where many older people end up stuck as there is nowhere for them to go after their surgery. Social services are severely stretched and have few placements for them.. One solution would be to offer tax breaks or payments to people who have spare rooms where they could be housed or stay. A form of home recuperation that unclogs the bottlenecks?
2. Brain Gyms.
One of the chief medical concerns with an aging population is declining minds. Alzheimer’s disease is on a rapid rising curve. Over the years since the inception of the internet, minds no longer work hard like they used to. Lack of use leads to a gradual decaying of mental faculties. Older people are highly vulnerable. It’s time for brain work to ensure the brain still works. The mind is as much as muscle as the others in the body. Governments should develop a programme of brain gyms for those over 50. Regular classes (just like Pilates or Zumba) to test, strengthen, and push the mind (puzzles, lateral thinking etc) and slow the degeneration.
3. Maturing Capital.
The cost of managing an aging population is spiralling. Instead, an alternative funding source to ease the burden is required. A possible suggestion to lessen fiscal pressure on Governments, health providers, and social care systems, – a specific set of future care investments can be created for people over 40. Part of the maturity of the investment/bonds can then be utilised to pay for future care or improved personal support. What other capital ideas could be set up to assist countries in paying for older person’s care?
4. Making Use of the Mature.
Growing old is no longer a death sentence. Retirees now a) retire younger and b) live far longer after retiring than ever before. That means there is plenty of life in older people. That’s why it’s called the Golden Age. They have a huge range of skills and abilities on tap and oodles of enthusiasm to go with it. They still want to be involved and part of the world. So why not put them to use? How can we find ways for them to fill in the gaps in the community where needed? How can we make use of the mature locally so it keeps them on the move and mentally and physically active?
5.Growing Old Disgracefully.
A lesser know fact is that aging people are most likely to be daily spenders on goods and services than other age ranges. They also travel more, access public spaces, and contribute to charities more than other age groups. This makes them pivotal members of society. Older people want to have fun and enjoy life. Perhaps it’s time then that we change OUR attitude to them? How many companies near you tailor specific activities for this growing force of people? Activities younger people also enjoy? And why not add twining session? Pilates for over 50’s and under 20’s TOGETHER! What ideas do you have to help older people live disgracefully (but very happily)?
Ok, that’s it for another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking your best thoughts and having lots of ideas. Consider more, imagine bigger, think about untapped possibilities ‘out there’, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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This week – New Economics.
There is plenty of current thinking that believes that the world economy is broken. All the previous economic structures and systems put in place are failing and it’s time to rethink how to build a workable financial future. And that’s what I’m about to do this week in SuperMind Saturday. The moment for new economics is here.
1. Money For The Few.
History has shown that financiers have grabbed more and more control of the world over the years. This means the greater share of world money has been in the hands of a dwindling number of the population.
How do we reverse this? How do we ensure that money does not end up with fewer and fewer people who decide the destiny of the planet?
2. Changing Our Economics.
Famous naturalist David Attenborough brilliantly said, ‘Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics’. To me that’s exactly right. But harder to set in motion.
What is the first change we should make or enforce that will lead us to a better economic space for most people?
3. New Seeds Needed.
As in nature life grow through reproduction. And much of nature’s means to do that is to seed the ground for fresh future growth. This has been replicated by the banking system via business loans and start-up grants called Seed Funding. That activity has petered out. New seeds are required for new ground. Local ideas have to flourish. Fledgling enterprises require early help. Business can’t be big if it can’t get going in the first place.
How do we seed the future without banks? Could part of our taxes be redirected to this purpose? Or, what are the seeds we can sow that aren’t necessarily money funding (like brain banks)?
4. End the Global?
The last five decades have seen the demise of thousands of smaller companies. Good localised or national ones. They have been swamped by huge global corporations that drink up all the money and squeeze out businesses that are trying to hold on. This trend shows no end. This will only continue more unabated.
How do we protect the local and smaller companies? Or, how do we prevent this steady march to huge global domination that’s killing communities and high street trade? Limit them in some way?
5. A Society For the Future.
Economics builds society. It dictates our work, trade, distribution, spending, taxation, and shared resources. This, in turn, drives how we live our lives both mentally, emotionally, and physically. This is society. So, economics are the developer of lifestyles and life circumstances in this way. Look around today and see the economics of the last twenty or so years in action. Which leads me to the big questions here.
Should economics have this power anymore? Are economics no longer creating but harming? Could we base our new societies of the future on another ethos we can all buy into? What is our economic future??
Food for mental thought for your mind about economics. New economics maybe?
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Ok, that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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This week – World Peace.
Back in the day beauty pageant contestants were often asked what they most wanted in the future. The majority made one simple statement; ‘World peace’. That was then (fifty or so years ago), but world peace seems as far away and as fragile as it’s ever been. SuperMind Saturday therefore has to get involved. Let’s switch our minds on.
Let’s begin.
- American politician Ginny Brown-Waite made a telling declaration when she said, ‘The UN has failed…in its mission to promote world peace’. The UN was once the bastion of ensuring conflicts were controlled and not allowed to develop. They do seem powerless to do that in the current time. Who then do we turn to for world peace? Who is independent enough to help keep the peace that is fair to all?
- Peace is our normal human setting. We don’t strive to fight, we prefer to live without hostility and bloodshed. And yet, war and fighting continue today as much as they did in ancient times. We seemed to have learnt very little. Why do humans not want peace and prefer war so often?
- Ask any normal citizen on the street and they will say they want peace in the world. Everyday people never choose battle and suffering. Therefore it is one or two leaders that lead their country out of peace into combat despite our wishes. How can we work to ensure no warfare can ever start without the public as a whole deciding it is the right, and only, thing to do?
- Children love. Children care. Children want to be friends. Yet, they become adults who seek anything but peace. We teach children to be good, to be kind, to think about others…..then they turn into the opposite. What is happening in our society that good little people become angry, attacking adults, often so soon as their early twenties?
- Peace may never be happening across all of the world, but peace is happening in MOST of the world at any one time. The majority of the population are peaceful live-and-let-live humans. Which is why the news promotes the opposite and the media seems to wait for it. How can we get them to find more positive stories? Are they to blame at spreading a message that the world is not largely a very peaceful place? And the big question of the day….how can we give world peace a better PR and image?
OK SuperMinds, keep the peace and share the good things with each other. It’s our world.
And that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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This week – Alcohol.
Alcohol has been part of human lives for millenia. It’s almost as old as we are. It’s our relaxant, our social supporter, and our reward all in one. But, it’s not all play. Alcohol has a darker side and many lives have been ruined by it. This week SuperMind Saturday takes a look at the substance.
- The vast majority of us like a drink. It quells our stress and boosts our feel good levels. But, the amount we drink to achieve this has been going up year upon year with more people than ever drinking more than ever. Why do we need alcohol so much as our go-to solution to life and will that ever change?
- Alcohol used to be consigned to pubs at certain times of the day and for special occasions like weddings and Christmas. Then along came supermarkets open all day and longer opening times for bars. Alcohol is now on tap permanently. Because it’s now available all the time, have we got too used to alcohol as a norm and what is that creating?
- Alcohol acts as a short term answer. Feeling low or unhappy or any despondency about life we often choose to reach for a good drink to ease our mood even though it will never solve the reason we needed it in the first place. Why do we choose to mask our issues like this so we never deal with them?
- Alcohol will probably never be banned. Or unlikely to be seriously limited in what we buy or consume. Let’s say it was though. Let’s say it was phased out. What would us people of planet Earth use to feel the same way (something legal and not dangerous)? Could we find a new source of calming pleasure that’s less addicitve?
- International footballer, George Best, famously said, ‘In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life’. He died in his 50’s from the effects of alcohol. Should we just accept that this is what happens to some people, that’s it’s the price to pay for overindulging in such fun? After all it’s a major pastime for most of us.
Ok SuperMinds there you have it. I could ask many more questions about alcohol. It’s THAT popular as a topic.
And that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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