If 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.
It’s no secret that the more advanced and developed a country gets, the fatter the people become. The U.S.A. Australia, Great Britain and other so called “developed” countries are filled with fat people. Even in China, child obesity is becoming a problem.
Why are so many people in the world today so fat, and more importantly, what can we do about it? How can we get rid of the weight once and for all?
Well, most people in developed countries can make a pretty good living sitting at a desk all day long. By the way, whose turn was it to bring donuts today? Of course, if you are a lumberjack, or an MMA cage fighter, then this doesn’t apply to you.
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.
What makes it worse, is that when we become hungry, it becomes next to impossible to resist this food. This has nothing to do with willpower. Because our ancestors had to struggle to find food everyday, we humans developed a strong urge to eat everything in sight whenever we get an opportunity. Great strategy if you are a caveman, but no if you pass by a donut shop every morning.
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.
While I wouldn’t go so far as to say they designed our whole nation of fat people with profit in mind, but their sure are a lot of people making a lot of money off of people that can’t resist stopping by the donut shop on their way home from work.
Of course, it can be extremely hard to lose weight with all this stacked against us. Resist fast food, get exercise, and eat healthy. But that is much easier said than done.
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