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.