Messages on healthy eating and alcohol moderation not getting through

I'm sorry, you seemed to have forgotten that this is America we're talking about here.

So I think the problem mainly is misunderstanding of diet.

From an early age children are taught that bread/grains are an essential food group that makes up the bottom of the food pyramid, but yet you really don't need this food group at all. Especially nothing made from flour.

Man was never meant to eat bread. Monks developed it as a replacement for meat in order to slow the digestive process (this explain the beer gut in short).

So with this alone, it proves why people's diets are backwards.

Next, people do not focus on how food makes them feel. They tend to just eat what "tastes good" and when they feel sluggish or "too full" they accept it as part of eating too much, when in reality it's merely the grease/flour/corn filling their stomaches. Instead they need to be eating balanced meals which will provide a sense of nourishment (who would've thought...) and revive their bodies.

I see the arguement about food being too expensive. Let's look at it like this. If you eat hot dogs, packaged deli meat, beef jerky, etc. you're essentially asking for cancer as Nitrates having been proven to be as cancerous as Aspartame. With this being said, the little money you saved you'll end up spending on doctor visits when your colon starts bleeding and even further on the cancer it will cause down the road...

Beyond this (and part of my theory on why poor people end up fat and why mcdonalds makes so much money), when you eat these non-foods you give your body no nutrition. Thus, after your body processes it and gets rid of it... YOU'RE EVEN HUNGRIER THAN YOU WERE WHEN YOU STARTED! Because not only have you not eaten any good food, you've burnt the only good calories you have in digestion and replaced them with worthless fats that your body can't really even make good use of...

I could go on and on, but I highly recommend "How to Eat, Move & Be Healthy" by Paul Chek for anyone concerned about their health that has $20 to spend on a book that could improve their life. I do not work for Paul, but this book is the best you can buy that covers all aspects of what the title implies.

End Rant...

This picture is just... funny, but yet sad at the same time.

people buy the food they can afford which always seems to be processed and don't care about the effects it will have on their bodies.

Decent article. Could have lived without the graphics.

I hear you sis... its psyops fatigue ;)

I sometimes wonder with the barrage of bad news thrown at us every day about how our ecosystem is failing, the job market sucks, cancer is quickly becoming the biggest killer, obesity is rampant, etc. that people can't absorb all of the information. It's the "everything sucks and I'm going to die anyway" mentality.

I think that stool is made from titanium

You can grow your own food on the side of your house. Americans are fat because we are uneducated and lazy. We live in a "convenience based" society. Pills instead of herbs. Tomatos from Califoria instead of from our yard. Cuba has the model we should follow. They start with education and end with preventative medicine through healthy habits like social exercise(dancing) and green farming. Fifty years of embargos, no resources, and strict leadership and they are making us look foolish.

Study: U.S. Media Keep People Uneducated About Health Issues http://www.alternet.org/sex/113065/

How the Media Cover Health
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1041/how-the-media-cover-health

According to the report, "News about health occupies a relatively small amount of American news coverage across all platforms: 3.6 percent of news during 2007 and the first half of 2008." In a list of most frequently covered topics, health came in eighth -- far above religion, education and celebrities, but below the economy, crime, foreign affairs and politics.

Within the small percentage of health news, outlets focused 41.7 percent on specific diseases, the kind of coverage that spikes somewhat when a celebrity like Elizabeth Edwards, Tony Snow or Tim Russert has cancer or a heart attack. Public health issues made up 30.9 percent of coverage, including stories like the tuberculosis-infected man-on-plane scandal, and reports on gossipy health problems like binge drinking.

Coming in third, actual health policy made up only 24.7 percent of general "health" coverage -- and this includes the political battles during the primaries and the congressional vote on the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

You make your bed you lie in it.

Fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meats are freaking expensive to anyone that is near the poverty line; It's a wishful fantasy to them, and nothing they can ever actually have. But they would love to eat that way. Even the farmer's market is expensive. Many have no place to grow their own. I know that I don't, and am too disabled to try to garden anyway, but I adore fresh from the garden treats.

Processed food with all kinds of crap in it, and stuff that will stack on the pounds, now that you can get and that's not even cheap to the person living close to the poverty line, but they scrape by, and people need to eat, and it just ends up a mess. It's freaking sad.

That photo I think is from an internet dating site for BBW. Don't make fun of her, she is showing it off for her honeys. If it didn't work, she would have something else up entirely. Ya know?

And yah I'm serious!

Also think about all those morning shows talking about obesity and healthy eating too much, that make me confused.

nice

Lap dance anyone?

SDLN, we sure went from 0 to 60 in no time...or did we go from 60 to 0? Either way, this post might have some of the most disturbing images to be seen on current!

Sh*t I ate two banana's to day.
Thats crazy.

that is beyond the most grossest picture i've ever seen for a topic so far!

*shudders

Maybe if the fruit and veggie folks hired the lobbyists that worked for the beef and dairy industries we would all be a bit slimmer. A banana is a few calories shy of a T-bone steak…

im a person who completely disregards nutritional facts and excercising habits, however im nowhere near the wonderful portrait up there.

btw, homegirl's got a fat azzzzzz.

we need to have to have super health lunches in schools that also taste good. natural and unprocessed foods are so delicious if prepared right and once people get the taste in their mouth and feel the difference in their bodies they might make the connection. then they grow up with a good example.
also, McDonalds should be banned from the world...

F*ck eating healthy.

We clearly need breeding licenses.

The picture overshadows the text.

messages not getting through....plaque in my arteries... I cannot hear? have I eaten myself into DEAFNESS???

LOL, I guess it serves me right for picking that picture to have all the comments be about IT and not the story here, which BTW, is that even though the government keeps spending money telling us what to do, some people still end up looking like that :P

All you have to do is spend a day and night in any American city or town to find that out for yourself.

Delia jes stop with the sexy pics.

your once, twice, ten times the lady...

I feel sorry for this girl. I can't visualize her being happy. The photo almost looks like the body & head are two different people.

I have no criticism. Only sympathy. It's going to take a lot of work to correct that.

It's supposed to have a funny caption underneath that says "Fat people: If you stare at them, you feel better about yourself"...seems like it got cut off :(

Gosh Delia could you have picked a more disgusting picture, I almost lost my dinner.