I've lived in many countries during my lifetime, since my father was in the military. Japan, Germany, Alaska briefly, etc. However, most of my life and been spent here in the United States. Everything seems fast paced here...work hard and do everything at a fast pace. Hence, the ever growing services to accomodate this request. Delivery foods, fast food restaurants, energy products to make you go even faster, etc.
It seems that as everything gets faster people keep getting fatter. I really do think it's people not taking enough time to exercise, eating way too many fast foods, and not take the appropriate time to eat properly. It's actually much cheaper for a person to eat at fast food places than to actually purchase food and cook it thanks to the $1 special value products that can be found on any menu.
To combat the every growing fatty nation we have here, diet products are available everywhere! Every other TV commercial is about losing weight and every diet claims to be the best. Weight Watchers. Jenny Craig. Nutrasystem. Some even go to more drastic measures and start tearing apart their internal organs to lose weight. Ripping apart the stomach to staple it up. Put a band around it to make it smaller. Regardless of the diet, they all do the same thing. Make you eat less.
This all came to really annoy me lately as I found out my sister has decided to do the latter and have Lapband surgery to make her eat less. So, I had a long discussion with her about this over the weekend and her explanation is this. She's fat and needs to lose weight. This band will force her to stop eating so much. If she eats too big of a bite of anything, she'll vomit. If she eats too much, she'll vomit. If she eats the wrong foods, she'll vomit. I guess my only response was, you sure you want to do that?
For fucks sake people, just stop eating so much. You can accomplish the exact same thing by just not eating like it's Christmas dinner every day. It doesn't take negative reinforcement and vomiting to achieve it.
I have nothing against overweight people. People can choose to live their life however they want. I also realize some people have a hard time with it due to medical conditions and things of the like. I do have a problem with people thinking they are too weak to accomplish something. I also have a problem with the growing trend of resulting to surgeries and pills to solve issues that people can do themselves.
I think I'll just stop before I go off on a tangent. |
