Put The Fork Down!!

Nationwide, two-thirds of U.S. adults are obese or overweight, according to the fourth annual report from the Trust for America’s Health. Mississippi, where almost one in three adults are obese, also ranks highest in adult hypertension and physical inactivity.

This came from cnn.com. Now I will agree that America is getting fatter by the day, but I don’t agree with calling it an epidemic. Americans are fat because we’re lazy, there’s more accessability to fatty food, and Americans have tons (no pun intended) of lame excuses: “This is just my body, I’m just built this way…”, “I have an underactive thyroid…”, “My whole family is fat, therefore, I’m fat…”, or my favorite: “I’m big – boned…” Oh come on… Rhinos are big – boned, you’re just big. Put the fork down!

Also, in the last 25 years or so, Americans have never really had a problem with being lazy. We think we’re being efficient, but there’s a fine line between efficiency and laziness. We love our 300+ channels On Demand, our maids to clean our own houses, we buy our TV dinners and our “fat burning” pills in very large quantities. This is a problem. Americans want a pill for everything, no work involved. Soccer moms think it’s easier to stop at Burger King so little Johnny can eat, yet she wonders why little Johnny is developing love handles and why she has to shop in the husky department.

We Americans think we work hard and should relax at the end of the day instead of doing something productive. What the hell? We’re rich enough, we’re a world power, time to sit back and relax. Well, does that mean that the rest of the world doesn’t work hard enough? Most of Western Europe has just about the same economy as America. They work just as hard, maybe harder, and they don’t have an “Obesity Epidemic.” Just because we work hard doesn’t mean that we should relax at the end of the day and do nothing.

Last, but not least, fat Americans are the result of rising healthcare costs. Every year healthcare goes up, and it’s not for the people that are in shape, but it’s the people that are in shape that have to pay for it. A Medicare study found that obese patients cost the agency 15 percent more than normal or overweight patients. I wonder who’s pocket that comes out of?

The bottom line is that obesity in NOT an epidemic, laziness is. Stop treating obesity like the Ebola virus and get to the root of the problem: Americans are LAZY! Americans have a laziness epidemic. We have no motivation anymore. America’s gone soft (once again, no pun intended). How many times have you heard an obese person say that he joined a gym, only to say in two days that it hurts too much and it’s not for him? How many people in Wal – Mart, who are perfectly capable of walking, have you seen riding those damn scooters that take up the whole aisle and go a half a mile per hour? How many people complain about rising healthcare? Americans need to stop whining and looking for the easy way out, get off their obese behinds and be productive again.