Reply #48: High fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated fat...

[CoffeeCat]

...is in so many foods that we eat. These things, as well as sedentary lifestyles are making us fat.

It is an epidemic.

Right now, it's challenging--because the price of food is through the roof. Fast food and processed food
are much cheaper than healthy food and fresh produce.

I remember in college, you could almost watch many of the foreign students blow up before your very eyes.
They came over here and started eating the food, and they became not just overweight--but bloated. Our
food is saturated with salt, preservatives and all sorts of other junk that is not good for the body.

This country makes it difficult to stay healthy and a normal weight. It's too easy to eat crap. You
have to make the conscious decision to ignore the fast food and the quick fixes--and go out of your
way to eat healthy. It shouldn't be that way.

I don't believe in the BMI either. That's a failed experiment. However, that doesn't mean that
obesity isn't an epidemic. It is. Leave it to the government to screw up this metric. It's as if
they created some bizarre, inaccurate standard of measurement, just so Americans would say, "Screw
it. I'll weight what I want. The BMI is flawed." Well...the BMI is flawed, but we are still
getting fatter and more unhealthy.

I swear, they're trying to numb us out and slow us down, so we don't notice that they're destroying
the country. :P