The Awful Reason Why We’re So Portly
Monday, September 13th, 2010If you are reading this, there is a huge chance that you are fat. (No pun intended). If it’s any consolation, over two thirds of adult Americans are overweight or clinically obese. Welcome to the club, the snacks are over there.
One of the strangest things in modern history is that the more developed and well off a country gets, the fatter it’s people become. Most people in most of the developed nations today have a few extra pounds on them, to say the least.
Before we start figuring out what to do about it, we should figure out why so many people are so fat. Certainly people a hundred years ago weren’t fat, so what happened?
For starters, we don’t need to put in too much physical labor to earn a living. Unless you are a lumberjack or something, and chop down trees for a living, you probably sit at a desk. And when was the last time you did fifty sit ups first thing in the morning? It’s no secret that people don’t get enough exercise.
And another clear reason that so many of us need to put in a heroic effort to button our pants every morning is the stuff we eat day in an day out. Filled with chemicals, preservatives, and other stuff that belongs in laboratory, the food we eat today can’t really be all that healthy.
What about heading out for a bite? Is it any better? No. It’s worse. Much worse. How many fast food restaurants do you think you pass by on your way to and from work everyday? Ten? Twenty? More? And how healthy do you think those places are? If you were a mad scientist, and wanted to craft some food that tasted delicious but was deadly, you couldn’t do a much better job than the fast food that is available to us today.
And if you are ever hungry, and you go shopping, where are you more likely to head, the cucumber section, or the frozen food microwave section? Or that section of most supermarkets today where they have food that is just as bad as fast food, but smells so good?
And all those companies that make all that food that is so hard to resist? Do you think they want you to lose weight? Do you think they would like you to shop at the whole foods market instead of the drive-thru? Yep, didn’t think so.
There is a growing suspicion that this whole mess we live in was carefully designed by those that want to take advantage of our natural tendency to eat delicious food, just so they could make a profit. I don’t know if that’s true, but they sure are making a profit.
So what do we do? Try and exercise. Try and stay away from fast and processed food. Turn off your TV. Go for a walk. It might be difficult at first, but when you realize your life depends on it, it gets easier.
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