My Response on a Website to Obesity & Smoking

Well it seems that most people have this debate on track.


Here, I may just be reiterating most of the things other people have said.


Okay I'll start with smoking since I don't have much to say about that. There' another college about 5 minutes away from the main campus. Smokers stand right by the door and smoke. One day some lady got mad because someone walked past her waving her hand like the smoke was bothering her. That just made ME mad because how can you be mad when you are doing something around other people who don't smoke... I have asthma and I used to smoke, and I found myself having trouble breathing with 2 cigarettes a week. Luckily I never became addicted and I stopped. but some people have more sensitive lungs and cannot handle the smoke, so you can't be mad when you something you do irritates someone else. That's just very ignorant.


Now, Obesity. I have personally taken it upon myself to change my eating habits. I'm on a dining plan and it's very hard. We have Subway, McDonald's, Hungry Howie's and a convenience store. These are the places within my convenient walking distance since I don't drive. McDonald's is cheaper and when I spent money at the Convenience store and Hungry Howie's buying healthier foods, lower in sodium, McDonald's is a better alternative in Price. There's also taco bell. (We have some random places to go eat as well but so I dont bore everyone I'm leaving them out).


Imagine being a single mother, who works two jobs, whose kids come home to no one. Taco Bell, and McDonald's is cheaper for your budget. If America wasn't so damn cheap and would stick to locally grown (and imported since apparently locally grown can't sustain America's size), and fund fresh produce, rather than overprocessed foods, it would make problems a lot easier to solve. We have cars, and washing machines, and all these things I'm thankful for, but we just have less and less to do around the house. Parents don't have time now to take their kids out to play. It's hard to keep up your activity level also, when most of your town is full of flat surface. We are building homes so close together, leaving no yard room for kids to even play. A park with hiking areas is probably out of reach. And people can't afford to go to the gym.


Being a lazy bum and eating these foods we GREW up on is easier than trying to get our taste buds to adjust to something unfamiliar. Many kids are probably raised on these overprocessed foods and that's what we like, because that's what mom ate while we grew in her belly and that's what she fed us. Tons of salt, butter, and candy. There is so much more wrong with America than being "lazy". And it's funny how when it begins to look alarming that all of a sudden it's a problem. It's too late for it to be a problem. We should have studied the effects of overprocession, and fats before tossing them in our food to "save money". Are we saving money now? Apparently not. I care/feel for all the people who are trying the best to "get better" and get healthy, but America is just really confusing to me sometimes, and I can't feel for a problem only because it's starting to tug at the Govt's pocketbook. We as Americans are Guinea Pigs. Sure the FDA approves things, but we can't even get spinach without the possibility of e. coli.


Back then we should of thought of why something was "natural" for a reason. We should have thought why some fruits are small, instead of pumping them up with sprays and other crap. Just Can't.