Is America's Love Of Food Leading To It's Downfall

The fate of a Nation and it's people depends on how it is fed" This infamous remark was said by the meditative Frenchman Brillat Savarin after Napoleon Bonapart's defeat at the battle of Waterloo.

He had seen the once powerful French empire slowly slip away from the over weight obese Napoleon. Years before Napoleon had been the handsome hero of his people, full of sex appeal and with an athletic body the envy of men and the desire of women. But over the years he had become a huge jowly over weight man. He was no longer held in any esteem , he lost his authority and eventually literally ate himself out of power.

Inspite of Napoleon's eventual attrition he recognised his down fall was down to his obesive eating. In fact he wrote a famous essay entitled Obesity in which he tried to educate his fellow man of the day on the dangers of obesity and how it can destroy lives, as it had his and has continued to do so for many years since.

What he did like many before him was to try and educate people to eat only enough to maintain their beautiful bodies in peak physical condition. But inspite of his attempts and those that have followed the vast majority of people still choose to be fat and overweight.

People on the whole don't really want to be fat, in fact I doubt any one actually wants to be fat do they?

Who would choose to be fat? Am I right that fat kids are the ones who get teased at school and how many fat pop stars or movie stars are there ... Have you noticed when fat people get roles on TV they are nearly always so people can make fun of them.

So why is it when we sit down at a table and eat roasted, boiled, stewed and baked food in fact foods prepared in any number of ways to make ourselves fat? Truth is we love food and we love eating but surely we need to eat to survive I hear you cry.

But do you know something the worse part is the food we love eating most is the food which provides us the least benefit and causes us the most harm.How many people say but I only have the odd burger now and again, or I only eat the odd plate of fries or a pizza when I get home late.

Why is it we condem those who smoke in public as being fools and wastful of the resources of the health services and accuse them of being totally inconsiderate of others but when it comes to food we tolerate anything!

People walk down the street cramming food into their mouths as if their lives depended on it ..

Fact it they probably will but not in the way they'd be thinking...

I bet you are shocked by my blunt and possibly over the top way of talking about obesity,why on earth would you read the ramblings of such an food extremist.It's simple really...

Does the softly softly approach work for you? Of course it doesn't if it had you wouldn't be reading this article about obesity in the first place. Does all that junk you are being fed by the media make you want to jump in to Lycra and start exercising. No way you'd no more walk over broken glass but the strange thing is you haven't always been fat have you. When you were born you were pretty much the same as everyone else give or take a few pounds.But some how while you were sleeping you got to be fat and overweight what happend?

It's not quite as simple as what you eat or even what you don't eat. It's important but not everything. It about the way you choose to look, how that makes you feel, the methods you use to prepare food , what you eat, how you decide to dress and the type and method of exercise you take and dozens more factors.

It's not as simple as being slim some slim people who live on a diet of salads and slim shakes still have a terrible self image so slip back at the first sign of adversity. It's far more than that it's about understanding your inner self as well as your outer body it's about loving yourself , it's about great sex, it's about your health and well being and most importantly it's about you.

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