We are a nation of consumption and food is something we consume in large quantities. Obesity is on the rise with no end in sight as being overweight is more than normal in the world we live. Appoximately 62 percent of female Americans and 67 percent of male Americans are considered overweight. Childhood obesity is on the rise which has massive impact on their health at a much younger age.
There are an estimated 400,000 deaths a year attribute to poor diet and low physical activity and we are starting early in that direction with the obesity in children. Many have poor eating habits due to learned behavior from meal and snack patterns they assimilated from their parents. So it's natural to follow along the same line as it is the path of least resistance.
Why do anything different if you don't have to so the pattern begins again. If a child grows up being overweight then why would they know anything else. Childhood obesity which leads to teen obesity which goes on to being perhaps a morbidly obese adult becomes one of the 47 million Americans that suffer from a cluster of medical conditions which will lead them to an early grave. That doesn't take into the consideration of all the hardship they endure towards their shortened life span.
The diet industry has and will continue to it's own economic engine that takes in billions each year to a culture of people that have no idea how it even became overweight in the first place. When pamplets and food guides write in bold letters that sensible and healthy eating habits are the key to living longer and better it might as well be in another language because this generation has not a clue what it means.
It doesn't mean that their dumb but it just means we are not speaking their language anymore.
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