In Sugar We Trust 
©economist
Obesity has
skyrocketed. Our busy lifestyle has made us less physically active as
people are sitting all day at work, driving everywhere, and eating
greasy fast food.
In particular, in the US where the obesity rate is the highest and many
fast-food restaurants and diet companies are dependent on its
continuance. There are various reasons why the US is the world's leader
in producing the highest amount of 400 pounds of lard. I am narrowing
the reasons to two.
Pursuit of happiness
The first is they want greasy food and could care less that their
doctors tell them it is grossly unhealthy. In addition, their car
dependent culture has given them the option of being immobile. America
was the first democracy of the modern era but there are structural
errors that have made them the most me-infatuated society in the world.
Their founding phrase is "freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness". The "pursuit of happiness" is the motto for America's
me-infatuation. This America is best known to the world. The America
that thumps their nose at the world, wants special status, and is a
Darwinist society where everybody is on their own. Their nation sport
is baseball. It is a sport hard to call a vigorous sport which contains
obese players and talent depends on how much steroids you are juiced up
with.
Achieving special status when it is undeserved requires deceit and
intimidation. Deceit is their rejection of global warming, failure to
admit their past war crimes, and the Mad Cow cover-up. It is this
distain for science that they manipulate facts when reality does not
fit their wishes, and they simply alter the facts.
Like when people say America is fat, reports surface of their
widespread epidemic of anorexia and the talking heads tell America to
be patriotic and overindulge at fast-food restaurants. Intimidation is
their distain of the UN, using foreign aid as a political lever, and
invading countries without fear of repercussions.
Inflated Arrogance
The second reason for their tubbiness is their inflated arrogance. This
arrogance has made them oblivious to starving in the developing world
and their cities. Yet they eat. Are they taunting the world in some
sort of global hot dog eating contest they must win? It sorts of like
the overweight slave driver that will not even let his slaves eat the
crumbs from his plate.
As with other issues, Americans who travel internationally sometimes
gain a different perspective. First, they realize how arrogant their
nation is and second they realize they take up more space.
Are they fat because they eat unhealthy food or from their idleness.
American food is exported throughout the entire world and no nation is
as fat as Americans are. Their inactivity is what separates them from
everybody else.
Just look at what diet is the most popular- the Atkins diet. Their most
popular diet does not involve not driving the car everywhere and moving
on their without mechanical help it is a diet setup that rewards
inactivity. Any high performance athlete is dependent on carbs because
they give energy to burn. Due to America's inactivity, they only really
need enough food to keep breathing.
Many pundits describe America as one nation under God. Others believe
it is the greatest nation the Earth as ever seen. Realistically many of
the advancements of the 20th century were outside of the US that is not
a good indication for a country that thinks it is the greatest empire
ever. America's religion is overeating with a culture based on sitting
as the one nation under sugar and the fattest society ever to sit on
the Earth.
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