The Weight Loss Trap – Time Magazine Article

Both are powerful pieces that hit you right between the eyes.
I’m glad others, especially literary influencers and respected magazines like Time are taking a good hard, HONEST look into the obesity crisis that has our country in a strong hold right now.
Time hasn’t healed us, its made the situation worse – the two biggest factors being:
BAD FOOD made by companies who care more about the bottom dollar than the health and well-being of their customers - why do you think there are so many aliases for sugar and chemical sweeteners? High Fructose Corn Syrup is cheaper than sugar, but it’s a chemical and our bodies don’t know what it is, so our brain stores it as fat because it doesn’t know what to do with it. It seems like the food industry is wanting to kill its customers kinda like people say the tobacco industry is.
Child abuse and neglect – and we, as a society have finally figured out the correlation between childhood trauma and health problems like obesity. Kids who are abused don’t have an outlet, they don’t know where to turn so they turn inward and then they turn on themselves . . some without even realizing it. Kids need to be and to feel safe ALWAYS. They deserve to have that basic human need met. They need validation, direction and a good moral example so they can learn how to respect themselves and everyone else.

Obesity is no joke, it’s serious business and we all deserve to invest in ourselves. We all need to learn as much as we can about ourselves, our bodies, what makes us tick – what makes us gain weight. We only have this one body, this one life and it’s our to enjoy, it’s ours to enrich others, its ours to make a positive impact on the world, and we can’t really do that if we are stuck in a house somewhere because we can’t get out of our chair.