Meanwhile, back at home, our kids have the world s highest rate of obesity and childhood diabetes directly related to their poor diets and inactive lifestyles. They live in developments without sidewalks, are encouraged to increase computer use at an early age, and travel everywhere in their parent s cars. They will say that people chose to eat unhealthy diets even if their choices may have been influenced a tiny bit by the non-stop battery of ads, promotions, and products aimed squarely at kids. And how many people stressed for time and mis-educated by advertising really have a healthy choice when confronted with a strip of fast food clones on their lunch hour. Fast food is cheap the way the careless disposal of toxic chemicals is cheap only if you don t measure the cost to your health and to society.
Heart disease kills more people every year than lung cancer.
If you throw in all the various diet-related cancers, our diet is clearly much more threatening than smoking. Instead, you get a separate bunch of chard. As usual, beets need to be peeled before eating the trick is to cook them in their skins, oven roasted, steamed, or just boiled. Once cooked, the skin slips right off. Beginning next week, you can get 10 lbs.