Modest eating habits promote healthy lifestyles
Ashley
Fredrickson
Life
is not about counting calories, keeping diet diaries and reading new diet fad
books.
But it is also
not about driving around a mall parking lot for 30 minutes to find a close spot
or super sizing your whopper meal at Burger King because it’s only an extra 63
cents.
We are living
in a land of television, fast food, instant messaging and vending machines.
Welcome to America folks, where, according to the surgeon general, sixty
percent of adults suffer from obesity.
But who is actually
suffering here? Is it the obese adults? Or is it the taxpayers who are paying
for this disease since it is driving health care costs up because hospitals are
now having to accommodate to the larger patients by providing armless chairs,
larger gowns and private weighing rooms in order to spare their embarrassment.
It is great to
see the media focus on a healthy way of living. Sure the ads, commercials and
mailings get repetitive after awhile, but maybe repetition is exactly what
America needs in order for a change to occur. As long as news programs continue
to show these informative shows and drill into these people’s heads that
obesity is an extremely unhealthy way of life, we will eventually see our
country’s statistics concerning weight take a turn for the better.
What it really
comes down to is time and motivation. It takes just as long to get into your
car and drive to a buffet as it does to take a brisk walk around the block.
If Americans
would realize this, surgical procedures such as gastric bypass and liposuction
would not be such a common way of solving a problem that can be resolved by
a daily walk and less trips to McDonalds.