Quick thought of the day: You are what you eat

While our society has become so predisposed with how we look and how what we eat affects that, I'm so often amazed at how much we ignore our intake in other areas. Most notably the media we take in. Let's face it. We live in a world cluttered with media like no other time in it's history. Books, magazines, television, radio, ipods, internet, cell phones, pdas and much more deliver messages to us from all sides. As a matter of fact, we average per person, 3,000 marketing messages fired at us alone a day! It's overwhelming if you think of it. It has to affect us in ways we can not imagine. How we speak, think, act. And there is a good chance that much of the quality of that media, if not carefully chosen by the user, is the equivalent to your brain and psyche as chugging down a twelve pack of beer and a bag of cheetos is to your body. Makes me laugh at the irony of the uber-fit person next to me on the treadmill engulfed in the latest celebrity trash mag. Because aren't they really just trading one kind of fat for another?