Comments on: Vintage Summer Tips From the U.S. Government: “Overeating Is Overheating” http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/vintage-summer-tips-from-the-u-s-government-overeating-is-overheating/ Keeping You Current Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: livia y http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/vintage-summer-tips-from-the-u-s-government-overeating-is-overheating/comment-page-1/#comment-84 livia y Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:50:50 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=960#comment-84 Robin Burns - couldn't agree more! I know find myself asking doctors which version of the "latest thinking" we're on regarding everything from nutrition to medical intervention. The good ones generally sound like my grandmother. That's not to say that I and/or most of we wouldn't be dead without antibiotics or totally crippled without body part replacements. BTW - clothes today are only cheap (even the expensive ones) certainly neither sewed or constructed. Robin Burns – couldn’t agree more! I know find myself asking doctors which version of the “latest thinking” we’re on regarding everything from nutrition to medical intervention. The good ones generally sound like my grandmother. That’s not to say that I and/or most of we wouldn’t be dead without antibiotics or totally crippled without body part replacements.

BTW – clothes today are only cheap (even the expensive ones) certainly neither sewed or constructed.

]]> By: Robin Burns http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/vintage-summer-tips-from-the-u-s-government-overeating-is-overheating/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Robin Burns Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:51:34 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=960#comment-55 "pretty good, considering they’re decades old" Why must we always think that any information or technology older than a few years (used to be a few decades but things move quickly these days) is not only outdated but inaccurate and primitive? We are perhaps not the most informed or skilled creatures that ever existed, but we are probably the most arrogant! Being a designer for needlwork and garment patterns, I find it especially distressing that people in past times are often depicted wearing just a sheet or animal skin, or a very rudimentary version of the finely detailed structures that were really worn. Remnants that we have from thousands of years ago show a much more sophisticated picture of the skills developed by people millenia ago, but our current opinion of just this part of their society would have us believe that all of their interactions and culture must have been barbaric. Now, we are told that ideas a few decades old are surprisingly valid, continuing the attitude that we can safely disregard anything that is not absolutely current. With that attitude we stand to lose much and force ourselves to relearn what we might have had handed to us in some cases. It's a shame. “pretty good, considering they’re decades old” Why must we always think that any information or technology older than a few years (used to be a few decades but things move quickly these days) is not only outdated but inaccurate and primitive? We are perhaps not the most informed or skilled creatures that ever existed, but we are probably the most arrogant! Being a designer for needlwork and garment patterns, I find it especially distressing that people in past times are often depicted wearing just a sheet or animal skin, or a very rudimentary version of the finely detailed structures that were really worn. Remnants that we have from thousands of years ago show a much more sophisticated picture of the skills developed by people millenia ago, but our current opinion of just this part of their society would have us believe that all of their interactions and culture must have been barbaric. Now, we are told that ideas a few decades old are surprisingly valid, continuing the attitude that we can safely disregard anything that is not absolutely current. With that attitude we stand to lose much and force ourselves to relearn what we might have had handed to us in some cases. It’s a shame.

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