If you are reading this, there is a huge chance that you are fat. (No pun intended). If it’s any consolation, over two thirds of adult Americans are overweight or clinically obese. Welcome to the club, the snacks are over there.
An interesting thing about nations of the world is that as they become more developed and rich, the people get fatter. Most developed countries today are filled with fat people, or at least people that could stand to lose a few pounds.
Before we start figuring out what to do about it, we should figure out why so many people are so fat. Certainly people a hundred years ago weren’t fat, so what happened?
For starters, we don’t need to put in too much physical labor to earn a living. Unless you are a lumberjack or something, and chop down trees for a living, you probably sit at a desk. And when was the last time you did fifty sit ups first thing in the morning? It’s no secret that people don’t get enough exercise.
And another clear reason that so many of us need to put in a heroic effort to button our pants every morning is the stuff we eat day in an day out. Filled with chemicals, preservatives, and other stuff that belongs in laboratory, the food we eat today can’t really be all that healthy.
Of course, you don’t have to go very far outside of your house or apartment to run into about half a dozen fast food restaurants. These are virtually diet disasters, filled with the worst kind of fats and carbohydrates you can imagine.
What makes it worse, is that when we become hungry, it becomes next to impossible to resist this food. This has nothing to do with willpower. Because our ancestors had to struggle to find food everyday, we humans developed a strong urge to eat everything in sight whenever we get an opportunity. Great strategy if you are a caveman, but no if you pass by a donut shop every morning.
Another reason, one that isn’t talked about too much is that all those big companies that make all this processed food may actually want you to stay fat. The more we eat that junk, the harder it is to resist. And the more money they make.
While I wouldn’t go so far as to say they designed our whole nation of fat people with profit in mind, but their sure are a lot of people making a lot of money off of people that can’t resist stopping by the donut shop on their way home from work.
Of course, it can be extremely hard to lose weight with all this stacked against us. Resist fast food, get exercise, and eat healthy. But that is much easier said than done.
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