Americans have a mind set of “ bigger is better” & "eat because it's there" mentality. Most people talk about fighting tobacco because of the thousands of people who die from it each year, but what Americans don’t know is cigarette addiction is getting a new challenger.
What you may ask? OBESITY!!!
Tobacco use is No.1 cause of preventable death at 467,000 people.
Obesity or being overweight caused an estimated 261,000 deaths from heart disease, diabetes and other conditions, and climbing.
The question now is should the government do a stop the Super-Size Campaigns like they did for Stop-Tobacco Campaign? The reason people are thinking about this is because smoking rates plummeted from 42% in 1965 to 19% today. The number of obese people out number smokers by 58% (45 million adult smokers compared to 78 million obese adults).
Unlike tobacco people don’t see eating a large amount of food as being a gross habit or a unhealthy lifestyle. Some people think obese is someone that is very huge, and cannot control their eating. This habit is a small population of the American people. You're considered obese if your BMI is 30 or above. If you're 30 or above the BMI formula then your part of the obese individuals.
I feel the government should tax restaurants that have super-size high calorie food. Also, if you don’t have a calorie count of each item of your menu then your restaurant will be taxed. Just like tobacco products, a tax needs to be added to the high calorie food products. People's thoughts are why pay $10-$15 for a healthy meal when you can by a Big Mac, order of fries, and soft drink off the $1.00 menu. With this bad economy people are looking for a deal. We need to offer tax breaks for farmers & stores that focus more on healthy items. I want my followers to know that making affordable meals can be done if people just take the time. That’s a whole new post and you will have to wait……LOL
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