I read an article in the New York Times that said that in 1970, Americans spent about $6 Billion dollars on fast food. In 2008, it was almost $140 billion. Play the small movie below. It is very disturbing. It shows how fast the obesity rate is climbing every year.
Some of those states jumped 20% in 10 years. The government is so worried about heath care as it stands today. What they should be trying to fix is peoples eating habits. Then again, you can’t fix stupid. That’s not quite right either. We are supposed to have a government run by the people for the people. That is not the way it is. Government is run by big business for big business. The large companies that we have grown to trust are not trust worthy anymore. They are run by greed. It has become a science to mislead the consumer without them knowing the whole truth. The whole marketing business is run on little white lies. Read up on Aspertame someday. I wrote a small blog on Aspertame. The product is in well over 9000 other products. It is poison and causes Cancer, but yet it is still on the market. The way it was pushed threw was more crooked then an Annie Anne’s pretzel. We trust the FDA. We think they are there looking after our well being. THINK AGAIN!!!!
All that being said, the question still stands, why are we getting so fat? I hear people blaming it on McDonalds. They did invent the Super Size Meal. My question on that is. Do big meals cause obesity, or does obesity cause big meals? Personally I think we need to blame Bill Gates. Well, maybe not Bill, but how about technology. Technology had made us extremely lazy. When I was a kid, we had 4 channels on the TV. We had to get up off our rears and change the channels. It did not take long to find there was not a dam thing on. So we went outside to play. Today we want everything handed to us. We don’t want to lift a finger to do anything. If our meals take more than 10 minutes to cook, we don’t want it.
Here is another thought. Today almost 50% of all Americans are taking a prescription drug. As the age go’s up. The percentage go’s up. We are a pill popping nation. The drug companies have some of the best marketers on their team. Why do we need to eat right, when we can just pop a pill and everything will be ok? I want you to think about that for awhile. Is everything alright? What happened to the war on Cancer started by Nixion in the 70’s? We are no further to a cure now that we were back then. The statistics on disease is staggering. We are becoming a sick nation. Scratch that, we are a sick nation. Pills are making us worse.
We need to change, but most of us will not change until there is a life threatening situation. We don’t know what feeling healthy is. We have been used to feeling like crap all our lives and we are used to it. People tell me all the time that I am wasting my time trying to help people’s health. I disagree. I am starting to see people that need a change. They want to feel that wonderful feeling of good heath that I talk about. The people that I have helped all say the same thing. “Why did I take so long to do this?” What I teach is not magic. It is pure common sense.