The ubiquitous fat American
Of course everyone’s heard of the whole “American epidemic” of overweight people. I find it funny that while so many are obsessed with nutrition and health things aren’t getting any better.
I feel that part of the problem lies in the fact that lots of “healthy” products aren’t very healthy at all. I just went food shopping this morning and I had to search pretty hard to find bread without corn syrup. Corn syrup! The same shit they make soda with. They even put corn syrup in hot dogs and healthy cereals!
This is a much bigger issue than something like soda or McDonald’s because we know they are shit and keep our consumption to a minimum but when people see “light” or “fat free” they feel it’s OK to indulge. I’ve even seen light apple juice. How can this be better? The real apple juice has just juice but the lighter juice has over 12 ingredients some of which I can’t pronounce.
The biggest blow to Americans is the high price of better food. I can buy a shit load of junk for the cost of a decent meal. If you want the organic or light version of something you generally have to pay a premium. I’m no conspiracy theorist but I can’t help but feel that corporate America wants us to stay overweight.
One Response to “The ubiquitous fat American”
I’m in total agreement with you on this one. We’re a military family, and we’ve got four children. We’d have to go into major debt to eat healthy. It would be one thing if we could afford our own home where we could grow our own vegetables and such, but we cannot. I do my best to try and make substitutions where I can when I make my food, but it’s not always easy. Thankfully, my boys are all thin. I’m not a ‘clean plate club’ mom. My kids aren’t forced to eat all their food if they’re not hungry. I try to buy things like raisins, apples and granola bars for snacks, so at least I know they’re not hogging it up on cookies, chips and other not so good snacks. I really think that the reason it’s so expensive to eat healthy is because the more overweight we are, the more health issues we’re likely to have, and the more money the medical community will make off us. It’s just scary to think of that, ya know? I found you via blog explosion. I’m gonna blogmark ya. Ta for now dahling!
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