Over the course of the years, technology and the information super highway has become not only a tool to allow laziness ( IE you can order a pizza now online and have it delivered to your house, and never have to once get up and make a phone call, you can do your grocery shopping on line and have it delivered to your house and never once have to get up and actually drive to the store to get what you need ); but it has also become a tool to hold certain corporations liable for information. Well, I wouldn't say that the internet has done this solely. This has been a conglomoration of multiple facets ( IE congress, picky people, etc etc ).
What I am getting at with this last thought directly is that fast food restaurants are now required to post nutritional facts on their food. This is a good thing, I think. I like to know how many calories their hamburgers and cheeseburgers are giving me every time I USED to eat them. This is the reason for this blog entry. It will be the on ramp to the freeway of hatred for Nutrition.
With the information super highway so rampant now a days, and with the immense growth of social media web pages, you can post anything from " OMG, I just woke up " to " OMG, I can't believe I just did what I did last night, I hope I didn't get her pregnant " or to " I'm sorry for your loss, our prayers are with your family ". More so, we can even enjoy pages that we support. Either for the current military situations that the world is facing, to Nutritional organizations, to religious sects, or even to those companies that you drive up to, talk to a large screen with a buffet of pictures that will allow us to ingest some interestingly tasting processed food the world has ever known.
Amazingly, these fast food establishments are populating " likes "/fans in the millions. Yes folks, Millions.. .that starts off with a single digit number followed by 6 zeros. However, nutritional fan pages are generating from mid 30 thousand to 300 thousand fans. ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS? And people wonder why America, and people world wide are so obese. C'mon people! Don't get me wrong, I used to love the smell and taste of the greasy double cheeseburger from McDonalds and the side order of french fries with a Salt Lick and a large Dr. Pepper to wash it all down with. But seriously, we as Americans are glorifying these companies to continue with their world wide influence to keep people over weight.
Its like a person who is very dear to me, and that I take the liberty of calling friend told me just recently " ... merely because it's easier for people to run through the drive through then go to the gym. Plus, ever notice how hard it is to find healthy food on the run? " I couldn't agree with my friend more. I have been guilty of stopping in the occasional fatty, greasy joint and indulging in the taste of wholesome badness, but its how much we go there and consume these foods that is the bad thing.
Ok, so lets get re-centered on the topic of this post. I guess I am just amazed at how much Americans, and I'm sure people world wide will show their appreciation and love for companies that are ultimately bad for our health, and how little people show love for companies, whose sole purpose, is to make us a leaner, healthier, in shape people, one continent at a time. Granted, living has become a more hustle bustle commodity, especially now with the economy the way it is. We are getting up earlier, driving further, and working longer than our parents and grandparents ever did. Also, single income families have become a luxury now a days. I am sure that there are families out there that have both parents working, and possibly working 2-3 jobs each just to make ends meet, and that is not including those households where it is a single income family, or even a single parent household. I would dare say that in those circumstance, the multiple jobs would be even more likely to occur versus a dual income family.
Having said that, a household that is surviving on the ideological reaction of multiple incomes from multiple employers has a negative consequence on dinner time for the household. So, what happens? We as a people go to a fast food eatery and get our breakfast, lunch, dinner, mid night snack, soda refill, whatever from there and continue on with the hustle and bustle. I know, because I lived that way as a child. So, now we have forgone the home made meals. A meal that is going to be extremely healthier for us.
Folks, I'm not saying that each and every one of you need to go out there to your favorite social media website, and click on " like " for every body building, muscle pumping, running fanatic page out there. That may not be your thing, and that is cool if it isn't. However, what I am saying is just be mindful to the supporting of companies that are out there with the sole intention of not giving us a healthy meal.
As always, be good to each other, and to yourself. Love your neighbors and friends as you would want them to love you. On a closing note, If I can blame fast food joints for me being fat, then I can blame taking supplements for having engorged veins and other things LOL!!!
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