UNC-Chapel Hill Requires Their Students To Take a Fitness Class Where The Textbook Implies Cancer is a Disease of Choice and Holocaust Victims Failed To Tap Into Their Inner Strength

A textbook for a required fitness class at UNC-Chapel Hill calls cancer a disease of choice, describes a theory that Holocaust victims failed to tap into their inner strength and maintains that “many if not most women” who are obsessed with weight have become habitual dieters.

The online textbook, “21st Century Wellness,” also includes standard information about fitness, nutrition and health. It is read by students in a one-credit hour course called Lifetime Fitness, required of all undergraduates at UNC. Each year, nearly 5,000 undergraduates take the class, which is aimed at teaching students about healthy lifestyles while incorporating a physical activity such as tennis, soccer or running.

Skye Golann, who graduated from UNC in May, took the class in the fall of 2017. He made an A, and said he enjoyed the physical activity twice a week as part of the class.

We know how freshman year typically works at college. There’s always that one required one-credit class that is the biggest waste of time during your four years. At UNC-Chapel Hill it’s Lifetime Fitness. You would think it’s just a class where you’re active a few days a week for an hour while learning how to eat right. Pretty standard. Well…not exactly.

The textbook, which is a required reading, was written by two BYU professors and focusses on mind and body integration. It leans on positive thinking over surgery and drugs. You know? Like crazy people stuff. Listen I know that having a negative mindset when you’re very sick is important because it tells the body to fight back, but how are you going to tell me cancer is a disease of choice. You can’t just not want cancer and not get it. That’s not how science works. Having two mormon BYU professors write your college textbook that everyone has to read is a mistake.

The school used to just have some standard physical activity courses, but went away from that recently to go with this outrageous substitution.

Lifetime Fitness replaced the university’s required traditional physical activity courses. Padua said the change was made to give students more of an education on fitness and healthy living, as opposed to one standalone sports class that would be less likely to have a long-term benefit for students.

Imagine a conversation between a mother and her son or daughter trying to catch up and see what’s been going on during their first year away from home .

Concerned Mother: Hey honey how’s school? What kind of classes are they having you take?

Student: Oh, nothing crazy some beginner core classes, and oh this required fitness class. 

Concerned Mother: Oh that’s nice. You’re getting some exercising that’s great! 

Student: Haha, yeah, and they taught us that cancer is a disease of choice and that grandma and grandpa didn’t tap into their inner strength during the Holocaust and that’s why they didn’t make it. 

*Phone call drops. National Guard on the way.

Is it a shock this is coming from Chapel Hill? I mean the school is known for literally making up fake classes for their athletes so they can boost their grades. Telling me the real classes they have includes telling students the reason their ancestors died in the Holocaust was because they didn’t tap into their inner strength sounds about right. Oh yeah that cancer disease? Yeah all about the mind baby. Just envision positive thoughts and your gucci. Yeah tell that to Jim Kelly you fucking morons.