Less exercise and more food, well sure, but why?
From the constant barrage of ads for prepared foods
(sugar, fat and salt in a rainbow of colors and
variety of shapes) to the placement of soda pop
machines and Pizza huts inside of schools--kids
are trained to eat more.
Kids become adults, and grown ups have the cash
to really pack it on.
Also...
In my day, we walked ten miles to school, barefoot,
etc etc. Less exercise I should think--my neighborhood
is packed with kids, and only a handful seem to be
very active physically. But they may be whisked off
to organized sports for all I know.
How about aging of the population? Well maybe not,
the average age in the US is probably not rising
as it is in Japan and some of the European countries
(heheh, where they are skinnier anyway!) Still,
I left for college all muscle and bone at 165lbs.
Now I'm 210 less than twenty years later. Gosh!
I have to say, physicians do not emphasise it.
Unless you have high cholesterol, and I don't,
I think it is unlikely your doctor will put even
a word in about diet--mine doesn't. He should <g> |
