Blog 35 - Commonplace article

Today I read an article on commonplace about obesity being rampant, and definitely being a avoidable cause of death. You hear about obesity being on the rise constantly, enough that popular channels often play the commercial about getting an hour of activity every day. Its just sad how much food has changed. Its morphed to get worse and worse with high fructose corn syrup, and the worst, trans fat. Its not just fat, its killer fat. It clogs your arteries, i'm pretty sure it should be outlawed. Its not okay for your body by and means but its found even in the break and bake pillsbury cookies. I feel like obesity isn't all the fault of the obese person. Oftentimes children don't have good role models and so fall into obesity. Parents who are often not present don't watch the nutrition on their child, and so let them fall into a habit of going out and getting food constantly. Never getting to eat healthy home cooked meals, the kids know no better and end up eating badly. Then when they begin to gain weight, the parents worry. It's too late then, losing weight its a lot harder than gaining it, and cutting down your food intake by 99% isn't going to help you lose weight fast. I thought it was really interesting that the article pointed out that the CDC is spending 150 billion dollars just on premature diseases caused by obesity. We're paying for the fact that we aren't eating healthy and living healthy lifestyles! I thought it was a very interesting article.