parfait wrote:Let's get one thing straight; The US isn't the only place in the world where there's a extreme abundance of overweight people. Around 43 % of France is overweight (BMI 25>30). Around 65 % of the US is overweight in comparison. A national French study showed that annual overweight growth is around 17 %; in children! To correct the clusterfuck that is the food industry would be such a big job, that'll never, ever happen. The food industry have perfected the usage of cheap labor, to the point that a worker have to work a 16 hour shift to give them enough money to get by. The chicken you eat is most likely from Thailand; where a normal day is around 16 hours of hard fucking work. It's either that, or prostitute yourself to the tourists - that's how the food industry is! It can be tea, rice, chicken, spice, eggs - whatever! I gladly pay a bit more so that Ho Ping can go take the three hour bus ride from his tiny appartment to the village and go see his kids.
Think about it; China's obesity problem is almost non existent, and they live on far less pay than a normal working American/Frenchman/etc does. It's about taking responsibility of your own lives, and whatever routines you have. It's about stepping up to the plate (pun kinda intended) and do what's best, not only for your own body, but society as a whole. I'm not judging you Ginger, Lora, Lisa, Anne, Debra and Gertrud; I'm sure you all are fine moms, and hard working! But I've worked as a personal trainer for a couple of years at my dad's clinic, and I've seen first hand what real obesity will do with your body, your mind and the people around you. We had a beautiful little girl there once, Audrey, who was around 8-ish and she was completely crippled by her weight. She got bullied and picked on and just really couldn't understand why she had to be
like that, when most of the other kids at school could play outside etc. And to see her face when she improved and lost her weight (I didn't interact with her a lot, since her cased had to be handled my professionals); man, that was fucking priceless.
It pisses me off that people (corporations) are so god damn hungry for money that they'd hurt kids, and grown ups for that matter (but they should be able to take some fucking responsibility, but most of them doesn't), in the process.
The direct medical cost of obesity and indirect economic loss to obesity has been estimated to be as high as $51.64 billion and $99.2 billion in 1995, respectively;[6] this rose to $61 billion and $117 billion in 2000.
That money could be spent on infrastructure,
important health care or education. Instead it's tax payers money that are spent helping what's a
self induced state of being. It's retarded. In fact, when you're eating all that crappy, processed industrialized food, you actually make a choice to condone how the food industry does things - and that's something I'll never do.
My daily food intake isn't as bad as you make it out to be either. I eat fruit, oatmeal, rice/almond milk products, salads, vegetables, protein shakes, whole grain rice/pasta, meat, nuts, fish, some soy, chicken/turkey, beans and lentils mostly. Eating and drinking rice/almond milk products is a personal choice, as I'm lactose intolerant. I wouldn't wish for my worst enemy to meet me after a glass of milk. I know you guys would think I'm a bit on the extreme side, but at least I've taken a stand on whether or not I want to want the best for my body, Ho Ping's family, and every little Audrey out there. We're so fucking lucky, that we should appreciate it, not go whine because
chicken is so god damn expensive. Every action got a consequence!
Fucking hell, this post got to be my longest yet.
