When you set a new “standard” on eating habits and weight, while believing they are good for you even though they aren’t. So you continue to eat the same way regardless of the negative damaging effects to ones self.
While visiting the doctors about my high blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight, the doctor explained the road I was on would lead to death. But !! Also explained, The new Male standard for weight and eating habits, which he called The BRISTOL factor. So to celebrate, I took the family out for some high end Carbohydrates
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)