Problems In America
America’s Solution America has a chronic problem. Throughout the U.S., thousands of people live in a constant rush neglecting to provide their bodies with the healthy nutrients it needs. Nowadays cafes and fast food joints sit on every corner prompting people to continue hurrying through life, not caring what they stuff into their bodies. According to an article by CBS News, the number of obese and overweight Americans has more than doubled in the last decade. Americans need a healthy lifestyle change to fix a problem that has escalated unchecked for far too long.
Constantly consuming unhealthy foods, Americans across the country liberally neglect to watch what they eat, and now the consequences have caught up with them. Nearly 50% of Americans want to lose weight or currently use a diet (Diet Sec. 5). However, the key to staying healthy really has nothing to do with weight. Yes, weight can portray an unhealthy lifestyle however as Susan Boe put it in her book, Total Health, “It is not how much you weigh that is the key” (99). As Boe goes on to explain, leading a healthy lifestyle does not mean weighing less it means avoiding foods rich in fat, sugar, and salt and providing the body with the nutrients it needs (74-75). In small amounts, these ingredients do not cause immediate harm but in massive doses like we see …show more content…
However any number of diets cannot solve this increasing infection unless we decide to make drastic and lasting adjustments. Making decisions such as these, a person needs to have commitment to their choices. Without this, the decision to change becomes only another diet to add to the shelf. Our bodies “are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14 NIV) and more than deserve treatment as such. America may have a chronic problem however every problem has a solution if only we will make the decision to
Constantly consuming unhealthy foods, Americans across the country liberally neglect to watch what they eat, and now the consequences have caught up with them. Nearly 50% of Americans want to lose weight or currently use a diet (Diet Sec. 5). However, the key to staying healthy really has nothing to do with weight. Yes, weight can portray an unhealthy lifestyle however as Susan Boe put it in her book, Total Health, “It is not how much you weigh that is the key” (99). As Boe goes on to explain, leading a healthy lifestyle does not mean weighing less it means avoiding foods rich in fat, sugar, and salt and providing the body with the nutrients it needs (74-75). In small amounts, these ingredients do not cause immediate harm but in massive doses like we see …show more content…
However any number of diets cannot solve this increasing infection unless we decide to make drastic and lasting adjustments. Making decisions such as these, a person needs to have commitment to their choices. Without this, the decision to change becomes only another diet to add to the shelf. Our bodies “are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14 NIV) and more than deserve treatment as such. America may have a chronic problem however every problem has a solution if only we will make the decision to