“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.”
Jay Leno
US comedian & television host (1950 - )
The above comment by Jay Leno may be funny, but it’s not funny when you walk around the streets and see so many overweight adults and kids.
Why do really obese people go to the “all-you-can-eat” restaurants? Logic should tell them that it’s only going to add to the problem. The problem is that they’re passing their bad habits on to their children and their children’s children, so it becomes a merry-go-round. I’ve seen it in my own family with the children emulating what the parents eat and drink and consequently they’re all dangerously overweight. And they don’t care!
The cost to society in the future is going to be enormous as more and more adults and children will be afflicted by Diabetes and Heart Disease. And guess what? You and I as taxpayers will foot the bill!
I saw a story on TV last week of a 16 year old boy who was so fat they had to get a special horse lifter from a vet’s surgery to get him into hospital. His obesity had put so much pressure on his lungs that he could hardly breathe. He lived at home and his mother took no responsibility for him being in that condition. To me, that’s child abuse.
We need to get junk food out of the schools and off TV so that future generations might have a fighting chance of staying healthy.
www.outstandingfamily.com
http://haveanoutstandinglife.com
Friday, November 30, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
