Can Our Society Slim Down Before We Die Off?

Why is it so hard to lose weight and keep it off? How did America get so fat? Long ago, we didn't have this problem. Families in the 1950's 60's generally always ate at home with good home cooked meals. We didn't have microwaves or tons of fast food chains on every street corner. It was much more difficult to eat poorly because those foods were less accessible and too expensive for the average family to partake in.

The fast food and diet industry are capitalizing on the American people. It's over a billion dollar a year production. We bombard our airwaves and our street corners with fast food chains and when our health and our waist lines expand because of it, we are told we need to lose weight. Diets don't work. People give up and end up right back into the fast food drive through's. It's a never-ending battle of wills. With so many plans out there to lose weight, we are a nation that's just getting fatter and fatter while the food and diet conglomerates keep getting richer and richer.

So what's the solution? In my opinion, we need to put both industries to bed. We need to stop being lazy and making excuses and go back to the traditional values we once had many generations ago. Is it more difficult now? Sure it is. Most families cannot survive on a one income source. Actually, that's not true either. Most families could survive on one income per household if they could let go of the extras and get out of debt. What has happened to our family values? Not only are we suffering physically with poor diets and low energy, but our kids are being brought up by these standards and just don't know any better. If the cycle doesn't stop, we will become a society where our children won't outlive their parents.

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