Cause Of Obesity
The average American eats less that two servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and that includes canned fruits and vegetables which have very low nutrition. That also includes french fries.
That is an amazing statistic, and it makes you think about what people out there are thinking. It is common knowledge, I think, that eating fruits and vegetables is healthy. Your mother told you so. Health science, usually fairly useless for true health, told you so. You know it. People know it. So what is the problem?
I don’t know, but sometimes I think that people are just determined to be miserable. It makes their lives easier when they have an excuse–poor health. Cynical? Yeah, kind of. I think that many people have bought into the whole idea that they can just roll along and do OK just taking a multivitamin. Or maybe they thing that modern medicine will cure their heart disease and cancer by magic so they won’t have to worry about it.
Probably, though, they simply have been raised in a culture that does not value health–or is not far sighted enough to understand causes and effects that work over more than a year, or maybe a month. Cynical? Pretty much.