Why Should You Eat Healthy
The world is filled with health nuts. Every time we turn on the TV there is something new we shouldn’t eat. There are always new diets that guarantee tremendous amounts of weight-loss. There are thousands of commercials showing how using a Bow flex or elliptical sculpts and shapes peoples bodies and they all look like body builders. Yeah right. I say later for all this dieting and eating healthy garbage. I enjoy Hagen Daaz, Big Mac’s, and I love Mountain Dew sodas. Why go running I’ll just spend all day on the couch watching TV and eating potato chips. A few donuts here and there won’t hurt and wash it all down with some soda. What tastes good is more important than what is good for me to eat. This is not what many of us say but this is how we live our lives. We treat our body like a trash compactor and stuff anything we feel into it as long as it passes the taste test. Most of the food we eat is filled with empty calories and a whole lot of mystery filling. When we buy hamburgers we trust that inside the beef patty is beef. Well studies have shown that some of it is beef the rest is not exactly beef. Another question is how since the population has drastically increased and there is less land on which to grow food are those that produce our food keeping up. The answer is steroids, chemicals, and science. The drastic increase in illnesses, emotional instability in children, and over developed teenagers has been attributed to the hormones that are now found in food. The body is like a machine, every machine has a life expectancy. Just like parts on a car, parts of our body wear out faster than other parts due to over use. For athletes normally it’s a knee or elbow or even a back that goes out early. For those of us with very bad eating habits it is usually the entire body.
“The Consequences Of A Poor Diet”
The consequences of a poor diet are very evident in today’s society. Never have there been more obese people than there are now in any other point in history. There are more overweight children and more health complications related to dieting than ever before. Millions of people are basically eating themselves into an early grave. I do believe in freedom of choice and being able to do what makes you happy. But the ill health of millions of people is going to be a burden on the rest of the population who have to indirectly support them by rising healthcare cost and missed days at work. The other consequences of a poor diet are rotting teeth, bad breath, bad body odor, indigestion, stomach ulcers, and sometimes cancer. Since the cells in our body are made up of the food we eat and water we drink, there has been a direct correlation in many cases of poor diets creating suitable environments for cancer to grow. I don’t believe being too extreme in either direction is healthy physically or psychologically. It is okay to pig out sometimes and enjoy food because food is more of an experience. At the same time we should know when to be disciplined and be much more careful of our diet and what we consume.
