Our Nation is getting fatter and fatter. This has to be stopped. I am disgusted by the articles I have read so far this week. One saying most Americans who are obese by medical standards don’t even acknowledge that they are fat. The next, an article saying over 2/3 of Chinese people are going to be obese in the next 20 years. And now this article about how tweaked our portion sizes are.
The article shows that most major food chains are serving portions that are 3x the recommended daily portion size. For example a Starbucks chocolate chip cookie is really 3 servings, not one. If you were to add up the calories of the food in the article, which many people consider a normal day of caloric intake – a muffin for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, a cookie for a snack and a steak for dinner it would have totaled over 2,000 calories. That’s not counting the chips with the sandwich at lunch, what ever else was served with the steak for dinner, probably french fries and creamed spinach, and the beverages — probably soda and mixed coffee drinks throughout the day.
Big Enough For Three
America, this is why we won’t ever run out of contestants for The Biggest Loser. We HAVE to change. I know this sounds radical and that change can be difficult but I know it can be done. So what does our nation do? We are surrounded by big food companies who want us to be fat? Pushing their triple latte iced high fructose corn syrup gunk?
We have to fight back, because the next article I read was the worst of them all — Obese is becoming the new norm. And let’s not talk about the article that’s yet to come — the one about how big food companies are actually the one’s behind the bee collapse disorder. Which they actually might be — consider this it’s the pesticides that Monsanto is dishing out that are being used on crops all across the nation that are killing the bees. There is nothing Monsanto would like more than to have their “crops” become the norm turning our food system into a bio engineered food system where organic farmers don’t exist and everyone has to eat “big company, man made food”.
Okay now I am steaming mad.
So what can the “average” person do to take back their life? Choose to eat differently. I think the first two things that people can do to make a major impact on their weight and over eating is to stop drinking soda, or fake sugary coffee like drinks and to cut their portion sizes in half. Wait I have a third! Replacing one snack, or breakfast with fruit or oatmeal. That alone would save a person hundreds of calories a day and start them eating and drinking whole foods instead of processed foods.
My list of suggestions goes on from there. The basics of which are start changing over from a highly processed diet to whole grains, you know good old rice, quinoa, oats, bulgur wheat. Eat some vegetables not potato chips or french fries — and I promise for those of you who say I don’t like vegetables — your taste buds are so damaged you don’t know what a vegetable really tastes like. Eat fruit, consume less meat, drink water, move your body, take the stairs, go for a walk. I’m not the first to say this stuff and I know I’m not the last. But folks, this is truly a matter of life and death.
