Marble Statue Of Hercules Essay
Marble Statue of a youthful Hercules
The piece of artwork I have chosen to best represent Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is the “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules”, which is on display in Gallery 162 in the Metropolitan Museum. The “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules” is a Roman stone sculpture that dates from around 69-96 A.D. during the Early imperial, Flavian period. “Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck, right arm below the shoulder, left arm and shoulder, right leg below the knee, left leg, tree trunk, club, plinth.
(Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954.) I chose this Roman sculpture to symbolize the beauty of the healthy physical form of man. The statue of Hercules signifies a standard …show more content…
of health that one should strive to achieve. The knowledge of how to live a healthy life is available to all, if people are informed of proper diet free of over consumption of sugar and exercise they have a fighting chance to eliminate the sickness and disease caused by sugar addiction. Addictive sugary drinks destroy the physical form and turn one into gelatinous sickly people that barely resemble the beautiful human form that we see here in this statue of Hercules. This statue of Hercules has a physique and face of a young man in prime health. His body is totally proportionate aside from his genitals, which sadly has been chiseled off (probably by a jealous Christian pagan penis hater). One can see that Hercules body is almost completely absent of body fat and that his muscle tone is that of a man ready to pounce at any task at hand like clubbing lions or pose for a “Men’s fitness magazine”. Hercules is a great symbol for overcoming our desire to over consume sugar filled beverages.
This classical Roman marble sculpture of Hercules is the ideal standard of a man for any culture to acquire. Our American culture with its easy access to harmful sugary drinks has robbed many people from achieving this beautiful standard, which is possible in our society with our access to healthy food alternatives. Many people in our culture have no idea that their addiction to soda and other sugary drinks is even the cause for their overweight bodies and poor health that plagues them.
Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is a great step towards enlightening the general public of their ignorance to this health crisis that has affected our great city for too long now. The ban will open people’s eyes to the fact that they have been lead down a path to a quicker death or a long diseased life if they continue to consume oversized drinks filled with empty calories and harmful addictive chemical additives. People need to be informed that their poor diet choices are killing them and are weighing down on society as a whole by burdening our heath care system.
We can compare this obesity issue caused by sugar to that of cancer caused by cigarette smoking. Many more people were killing themselves with harmful tobacco products because they were unaware of the carcinogenic properties of the addictive smoke. It took major campaigning to open people eyes to the error of their ways when it came to smoking. Yes people still smoke, but many have quit and lead healthy lives because they are now aware that smoking cigarettes unecassarily leads to an early painful death. Sugar currently eludes most people as even being a problem just as cigarettes once did.
“Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading US doctor who is taking on governments and the food industry. Dr. Robert Lustig, who was this month in London and Oxford for a series of talks about his research, likens sugar to controlled drugs. Cocaine and heroin are deadly because they are addictive and toxic – and so is sugar, he says. "We need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need to make sugar a treat, not a diet staple," he said." The food industry has made it into a diet staple because they know when they do you buy more. This is their hook. If some unscrupulous cereal manufacturer went out and laced your breakfast cereal with morphine to get you to buy more, what would you think of that? They do it with sugar instead." (Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Wednesday 20 March 2013)
America’s current sedentary lifestyle and diet laden with sugar has destroyed our well being leaving many of us Americans to lead a poor quality of life that is unnecessary in 2014 with all our knowledge of how to keep the body healthy. Most of us Americans barely resemble this great Greek and Roman standard of beauty that Hercules emits. Ignorance of proper diet is one of the main causes of this blight on man. We live in a time and place where one can get diseases like diabetes from over consumption of sugar. Sugar is easy to obtain at almost any store and is hidden within most of our “food”. The Statue of Hercules shows the form of a man who lived in a time where sugar was not easily obtained, which shows in his body composition. Ancient Greeks and Romans put great importance on the strength and beauty of the human body that many have lost sight of in our American culture. I believe that the ban on Sugary drinks is a great start to open the eyes of Americans to the error of their ways.
Soda and sugary drinks are the leading cause of the terrible obesity health crisis that is affecting our society. Statistics show that America is one of the most obese countries in the world. Statistics also show that our consumption of sugar is one of the leading causes of this issue.
More than one-third of U.S.
adults (34.9%) are obese.
Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.
The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight. (Journal of American Medicine (JAMA).
I agree with the ban that Bloomberg has placed on oversized drinks. People have become addicted to sugar and it is killing them while ruining their physical form. The “Statue of a youthful Hercules” is the ideal symbol for this campaign. Aside from Hercules great physical attributes within his myths was capable of overcoming great obstacles. Soda isn’t quite as threatening as a Hydra or Golden Lion but I’m sure sugar addiction is still a worthy adversary. Hercules as a symbol of health and great willpower will strengthens the American peoples resolve as they pit themselves against their unhealthy lifestyle choices and addiction to sugary drinks. I believe that once people start to get healthy it is easier for them to make more changes that could ultimately lead them to a greater life and a greater society for
all.
“Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules” in peak physical condition. Hercules refused to drink from the fountain of soda.
Naked Man, Back View, Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)
This oversized man is hiding whilst slurping down a big gulp soda from 711 in Lucian Freud’s studio.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, no. 122, p. 174, pl. 94.
The piece of artwork I have chosen to best represent Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is the “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules”, which is on display in Gallery 162 in the Metropolitan Museum. The “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules” is a Roman stone sculpture that dates from around 69-96 A.D. during the Early imperial, Flavian period. “Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck, right arm below the shoulder, left arm and shoulder, right leg below the knee, left leg, tree trunk, club, plinth.
(Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954.) I chose this Roman sculpture to symbolize the beauty of the healthy physical form of man. The statue of Hercules signifies a standard …show more content…
of health that one should strive to achieve. The knowledge of how to live a healthy life is available to all, if people are informed of proper diet free of over consumption of sugar and exercise they have a fighting chance to eliminate the sickness and disease caused by sugar addiction. Addictive sugary drinks destroy the physical form and turn one into gelatinous sickly people that barely resemble the beautiful human form that we see here in this statue of Hercules. This statue of Hercules has a physique and face of a young man in prime health. His body is totally proportionate aside from his genitals, which sadly has been chiseled off (probably by a jealous Christian pagan penis hater). One can see that Hercules body is almost completely absent of body fat and that his muscle tone is that of a man ready to pounce at any task at hand like clubbing lions or pose for a “Men’s fitness magazine”. Hercules is a great symbol for overcoming our desire to over consume sugar filled beverages.
This classical Roman marble sculpture of Hercules is the ideal standard of a man for any culture to acquire. Our American culture with its easy access to harmful sugary drinks has robbed many people from achieving this beautiful standard, which is possible in our society with our access to healthy food alternatives. Many people in our culture have no idea that their addiction to soda and other sugary drinks is even the cause for their overweight bodies and poor health that plagues them.
Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is a great step towards enlightening the general public of their ignorance to this health crisis that has affected our great city for too long now. The ban will open people’s eyes to the fact that they have been lead down a path to a quicker death or a long diseased life if they continue to consume oversized drinks filled with empty calories and harmful addictive chemical additives. People need to be informed that their poor diet choices are killing them and are weighing down on society as a whole by burdening our heath care system.
We can compare this obesity issue caused by sugar to that of cancer caused by cigarette smoking. Many more people were killing themselves with harmful tobacco products because they were unaware of the carcinogenic properties of the addictive smoke. It took major campaigning to open people eyes to the error of their ways when it came to smoking. Yes people still smoke, but many have quit and lead healthy lives because they are now aware that smoking cigarettes unecassarily leads to an early painful death. Sugar currently eludes most people as even being a problem just as cigarettes once did.
“Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading US doctor who is taking on governments and the food industry. Dr. Robert Lustig, who was this month in London and Oxford for a series of talks about his research, likens sugar to controlled drugs. Cocaine and heroin are deadly because they are addictive and toxic – and so is sugar, he says. "We need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need to make sugar a treat, not a diet staple," he said." The food industry has made it into a diet staple because they know when they do you buy more. This is their hook. If some unscrupulous cereal manufacturer went out and laced your breakfast cereal with morphine to get you to buy more, what would you think of that? They do it with sugar instead." (Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Wednesday 20 March 2013)
America’s current sedentary lifestyle and diet laden with sugar has destroyed our well being leaving many of us Americans to lead a poor quality of life that is unnecessary in 2014 with all our knowledge of how to keep the body healthy. Most of us Americans barely resemble this great Greek and Roman standard of beauty that Hercules emits. Ignorance of proper diet is one of the main causes of this blight on man. We live in a time and place where one can get diseases like diabetes from over consumption of sugar. Sugar is easy to obtain at almost any store and is hidden within most of our “food”. The Statue of Hercules shows the form of a man who lived in a time where sugar was not easily obtained, which shows in his body composition. Ancient Greeks and Romans put great importance on the strength and beauty of the human body that many have lost sight of in our American culture. I believe that the ban on Sugary drinks is a great start to open the eyes of Americans to the error of their ways.
Soda and sugary drinks are the leading cause of the terrible obesity health crisis that is affecting our society. Statistics show that America is one of the most obese countries in the world. Statistics also show that our consumption of sugar is one of the leading causes of this issue.
More than one-third of U.S.
adults (34.9%) are obese.
Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.
The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight. (Journal of American Medicine (JAMA).
I agree with the ban that Bloomberg has placed on oversized drinks. People have become addicted to sugar and it is killing them while ruining their physical form. The “Statue of a youthful Hercules” is the ideal symbol for this campaign. Aside from Hercules great physical attributes within his myths was capable of overcoming great obstacles. Soda isn’t quite as threatening as a Hydra or Golden Lion but I’m sure sugar addiction is still a worthy adversary. Hercules as a symbol of health and great willpower will strengthens the American peoples resolve as they pit themselves against their unhealthy lifestyle choices and addiction to sugary drinks. I believe that once people start to get healthy it is easier for them to make more changes that could ultimately lead them to a greater life and a greater society for
all.
“Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules” in peak physical condition. Hercules refused to drink from the fountain of soda.
Naked Man, Back View, Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)
This oversized man is hiding whilst slurping down a big gulp soda from 711 in Lucian Freud’s studio.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, no. 122, p. 174, pl. 94.