It's In the Jeans...Genes...Same Thing

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After reading a fellow student's post about obesity, I had some questions arise and thought that I should look for myself at some factors that cause obesity. One of the main things I found was that fast food/eating habits are NOT the only cause of obesity. It certainly is a factor, but it is not the sole cause. It is easy to fall into the thought process of "I am never going to look like that model on television, so why even try?" This is all a ploy from the corporations. We feel overweight so therefore we sit around and fall into a sedentary lifestyle. That sedentary lifestyle includes watching those depressing self-help television shows and drowning your sorrows in a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. The corporations are to blame for this. Even for those who come by obesity genetically, corporations should be concerned with keeping America alive. After all, where else are they going to get their money? I have heard stories of some people that are so overweight that their heart simply cannot keep up and beat anymore. Should that not be a red flag to corporations that they are killing exactly what keeps them afloat? To think about the lack of care from corporations is insane. I know that my dad and most of his six siblings are just heavyset. Some are obese; some are just a little bit big. All of them at least try to live a lifestyle that avoids extreme obesity, but there is only so much you can do. So many times we hear horror stories about these menus claiming to be "the new healthy thing" only to find out that they are worse than what we were originally eating. Taco Bell has produced a new "Fresco" menu that is supposedly healthy, but who really knows..unless you look at the full nutrition information. If you were to compare the regular bean burrito with the Fresco bean burrito, you will see that there is only a 20 calorie difference. That just screams healthy to me, not like I go to Taco Bell when I want a healthy meal, but if a corporation is claiming to be healthy, they should be truly be healthy and not adding to the growing waste band of America.

Keeping the Lights On

Have you ever thought about how much the vast majority of corporations help us? They provide our food, provide our education, and even provide our electricity. It is hard to think about what it was like "way back when." Our grandparents tell us about what their walk to school was like, you know..5 miles barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways..but it has never really occurred to me to think about what it was like without electricity. I use electricity so much it is ridiculous, and it is things we never think about. The electric companies provide so much for us. We use the electricity from their corporation to power our own corporations. Universities are corporations run off of electricity supplied from another corporation. In one of my classes today, we watched a video that describes corporations as "brutal predators."

I could not disagree more with that statement. The corporation that made this video used electricity and equipment from another corporation. It is simply impossible to be not support corporations. Those that wish to stand outside with picket signs about how bad the corporations are will return to their homes when they are done, and flick on that light-switch to only give support to that which they were just protesting. Corporations have such a positive effect on our daily lives, it is insane. I would not be writing this internet blog right now if it weren't for the electricity required to run the website, much less power my computer. We can complain all day every day about how bad the corporations are,  but when it gets down to the basis of our lives, corporations make our lives easier, they help us immensely. Simply stated, corporations keep our lights on.

Joe Colburn