Food

I was always a thin person growing up.  Actually I was underweight growing up.  No I was not anorexic or suffering from any type of food disorder.  I was healthy and I ate my food, maybe not always all of it, but I ate pretty good.  Most of the people I knew were like me as well.   We were all a little on the skinny side.  We went outside and played and we came home and ate dinner.

In trying to understand why so many people are so obese today, I realized that a few things have changed.  We no longer have children running and playing outside on the street, in the park or in the yard, like we did growing up.  There seems to be an obsession with our phones, ipads, ipods, etc.  We are literally obsessed with our electronic devices.  So much so, that many don't even know how to properly communicate to and with others, but that is another post.  (which I do plan to address)  So we are no longer getting the exercise and workouts we got when we were children.  Also we danced every weekend somewhere.  Growing up in NYC there was no shortage of nightclubs or discos to go to.  So from Thursday to Saturday the party was on.  Sometimes we even got started on a Tuesday or Wednesday night.   Like I said, there was no shortage of clubs to party at here pretty much any night of the week you felt like going out.

The biggest factor I believe leading to our mass epidemic of obesity is our FOOD!!! Our food supply here in America has been hijacked by big corporations who are putting all kinds of poisonous stuff in our food.  When I say they are poisoning us, I don't mean with fast acting poisons like cyanide or something that will kill us quickly.  No they are killing us slowly with their GMO's, pesticides, antibiotics, dyes, chemicals and Lord knows what else they are putting in our food.  Even when you believe you are making the healthy choice with a plant base diet or lean meats, you are still not getting the best you can get unless you are buying certified organic, grass fed food.  And even then, who knows!!! The problem  is not only with the food but with the methods used to grow and feed it.  Farm raised fish, please somebody tell me WTF is that?   Chickens that are given shots to fatten them up and then kept cooped up in cramped surrounding are supposed to be as healthy as chickens that roam free and eat healthy feed.  STOP, SORRY NOT BUYING IT!!!!  Cows and Pigs that are kept in tight quarters that are also given hormones and shots to fatten them up.  They are also given antibiotics to keep them from getting sick because they aren't being raised in a natural environment.
Why is everything fed corn?  Well corn makes everything taste sweeter, so you're likely to consume more.  Why is their HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP in everything?   Do we really need our bread to be sweet, well of course we do, if we're going to consume more of it so the food companies can get richer and richer while poisoning us!!!!

Why are sugar substitutes so bad for you?  It is the one thing I will not do and that's drink a diet anything.  Why does our fruit taste like, well NOTHING!!!  It is so rare now to eat a piece of fruit that taste like anything.  When I buy fruit and it tastes good, if it's possible I quickly hurry back to the place of purchase and buy more because I don't know what I will get the next time,  Why is everything that is good for you so expensive?  Everything that is bad for you is relatively affordable.  You can walk into almost any grocery store and find a .99 cents loaf of white bread.  Over in the fresh produce aisle, blueberries (non organic mind you) will be at least $4.00 for a small box.  It is practically impossible for a family of modest means with children to eat healthy.  The only reason I can afford to eat healthy is because I'm only feeding me.  Thank God my son is an adult.  I would be hard pressed to figure out how to feed my family healthy food. My heart goes out to parents who want to do the right thing but can't afford to.  Something is terribly wrong with our society when we allow food companies to poison consumers freely without consequence.  The very people you need to keep you in business are the very people you poison daily.

American's better wake up and start demanding that their food supply be restored to full healthy origins of which it was meant to be consumed.  We are the only Western country that allows this.  Many of the things found in our food supply are not allowed in other western and civilized countries around the world.  I am reminded every time I travel out of the country and return just how horrible our food supply is.  I was recently in the U.K. and the food was so much better.  I forgot egg yolks are actually orange when farm fresh.  It's interesting how when I vacation in America, I come home and my clothes are a little tighter from the eating (because don't we all eat when on vacation), but when I leave the country I actually come back the same or a few pounds lighter.  So please don't tell me our food supply is healthy and studies show there's no difference in sugar substitute and cane sugar.  It is all a pile of MALARKY!!!!!   Our food is the main source of our weight gain, health issues and some mental issues.  I can't prove anything on a scientific level and no I am not a scientist.  Just an observant human being who believes that our country allows us to be poisoned everyday by our food supply because of greed!!! Our elected officials were supposed to be out voices, but that's not working out so well.  We the people don't have lobbyist on Capitol Hill lobbying for laws that will protect us from greedy, selfish pigs who don't give a damn about destroying our food supply in the name of Capitalism  BETTER WAKE UP!!!