I watched that “Supersize Me” documentary, and it made me sick. Wall to wall corporate-bashing and denial of personal responsibility.
You know what, if you give people enough freedom, they’ll hang themselves. There’s no lack of healthy food out there. And more importantly, there’s no lack of food marketed as healthy. How many boxes are now labeled “fat free,” “zero trans fat,” “heart healthy,” “lean,” and on and on. Obviously, the marketing gurus have responded to the outcry for healthier options. Now that the options are here (as if they weren’t before, lurking in the produce section, far away from the candy/pop/cereal/ice cream aisles), not much has changed on the obesity front.
Whether or not they’re actually that healthy isn’t the point. The point is, we’re being supplied with “healthy” food. We’re being induced by big business to buy healthy food. And still we’re fat. Why? Because bad food tastes good. People will continue to choose what’s bad for them. Evolution has screwed us.
Nope, people will eat what their bodies are designed to seek out.
That is sweet, fat and salt. The building blocks of health.
These are things that are scarce in nature and so our programing is to seek out those flavors, associate them with "good" and eat as much of them as we can get our hands on.
Problem is that to get the sweet you used to have to hunt for weeks to find a honey tree and then fight with the bees to get some. To get the salt walk to the ocean and find a place where sea water evaporated. To get the fat chase down and kill a lot of animals or climb a lot of trees for nuts.
Now days you just walk to the refrigerator.
These things are not bad for you. They are needful. But since nature is no longer limiting you then you need to limit yourself. Since nature can no longer threaten you with, "Move or Die!" you need to decide yourself to get up and move.