Recently, the movie Wall-e illustrated the fact that we American's are eating ourselves to death...literally. It makes perfect sense that our can-do spirit and independent ways have lead us to over-indulge in pretty much everything we can get our hands on. The ancient Historian Libby once said, " In recent years, our wealth has made us greedy." In Wall-e we see the danger of a culture falling into consumerism. Although we can pinpoint that there is a problem we don't have the power to create a collective effort that will change the culture. Certain groups of people can become healthier but as a whole the nation is so caught up in it's fast-paced, no time for exercise, fast food eating ways.
We are a nation built on addictions and the food industry keeps feeding those addictions with no regard to the publics health.
So, what can we as citizens do for our health? Enough of us are beginning to call for changes from the food industry and slowly we have seen the positive affects. For example, there is more of an awareness of food labels and we are becoming more knowledgable of nutrition facts. We're also having children now and not only want them to grow up in good health but the nature of cancers and other diseases are affecting us at the root of our families. Do we want to see our children grow up? I do. It is time to take back our lives! If not now, then when?
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I have not seen the movie "Wall-E", but it sounds like a great example! I agree with you about us wathing the food labels and becoming more aware of our health and how food affects it. I was never very aware of what I ate until recently and I have always struggled with my weight. I wish I would have been taught at an earlier age!
ReplyDeleteI love the Wall-E illustration!!! That was a great movie that expressed how a country can eat themselves into misery. Great point bringin up the labels on new food items. I do believe that it helps most of the consumers, but what about the people who don't care about the labels? Do you think there is any way to make them care?
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved that part of the movie; however, a lot of people thought Wall-E tried to force fed too many morals down your throat. It's hard not to look at stastics over the last few years and wonder what all this excess food is doing to our biochemistry: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/
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