More and more people are starting to realize that one of the biggest issues facing adults today is the growing problem of obesity. Two thirds of adult Americans are overweight or obese.
If you look back into history, it wasn’t always this way. People weren’t always so fat. Back in the old days, most people were thin and healthy. What was different? Let’s look at the two main reasons.
One reason is that so many of us today are lucky enough to be able to make a living while sitting on our behinds all day long. Before, that just wasn’t possible. In the old days, you had to really work hard to earn money.
Another, likely more significant reason is that the food we eat today is completely different than the stuff people ate a hundred years ago. Food in those days was fresh, and wasn’t shipped across the country. People ate stuff that was grown in their own neighborhood.
Today, most of the food you can get is filled with chemicals, preservatives, and all kinds of other junk that would be better of in some high school chemistry lab.
Of course, the reason for this is so they can transport food over much greater distances, and keep it edible longer. But that is for the benefit of those making money from selling the food, not the people eating it.
Most people agree that the more you eat fatty, unhealthy, processed food, the harder it is to resist. It’s as if the food companies are making it impossible for us to lose weight and stay healthy. Some suggest they are doing it on purpose. We stay fat, and they stay rich.
Only when you take control of your own health, and choose to eat the right foods, and get some exercise a couple times a week do you have any hope of getting and staying healthy.
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