A headline in today's Seattle Times noted that obesity was about to surpass tobacco as the nation's leading cause of avoidable death.
Many health experts fault the federal government for its failure to keep grease and sugar out of elementary schools and for not subsidizing healthier items like fruits and vegetables. While I agree that public schools should cut their binds from the big business that is the vending and snack industry, I have a hard time believing that children are dying from obesity.
The fact is, any person over the age of 12 should know the difference between a twinkie and an apple. The people dropping dead from heart attacks and diabetes are people who have been eating like pigs for decades. Healthy eating is common sense--if it's fried, greasy or comes on a stick, you know it's nasty. Where's the confusion?
The Washington Post and The Associated Press article states that "The new findings come a day after another study concluded that if current trends continue, one of every five dollars spent on health care in the United States will go toward obesity-related treatment by 2020."
Meaning I have to pay for the laziness and stupidity of others. I'll take a side of resentment with that order, thanks.
This may sound unsympathetic, but I have a really hard time feeling sorry for people who are too lazy to exercise and too indifferent to respect their own bodies. Call me Darwin, but many of these folks are dead for a reason--they didn't take care of themselves, that's rule number one in human survival.
In this day and age, it is deplorable to play dumb when it comes to your own body. Those people who continue to binge eat on chili cheese fries and then cry
because people think they look disgusting need a slap in the face, not a shoulder to cry on.
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