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=Healthier America=

I looooove junk food. It’s addicting and I can never get enough. My record

is probably eating In-N-Out 5 times in 3 days. It’s bad.I have an unhealthy crave

for in-n-out 24/7. If you ask me what I want to eat, Ill look at you with this

bewildered look as if trying to express a face that says “You’re kidding…you

know what I want.” The thing is we are all addicted to crack, surprising right? Ill

simplify this, we are all addicted to fast food and pushing our bodies to digest

unhealthy amounts of sugar and fat. So I’ve come to the conclusion we are all

druggies.

We have all tasted the crunchy, greasy McDonalds fries or the carbonated

Coca Cola. We have all eaten at least one thing that is horrible for our bodies.

But frankly, I’m not concerned with teenage over-consumption of unhealthy

foods, I’m concerned about the children, specifically 10 years and younger, who

have already developed diabetes or become over-weight.

I honestly get so sad to see these families lined up out the door of

McDonalds or even worse them being to lazy to get out the car so the Wendy’s

on Victoria is lined up with cars filled with kids screaming “I want a large

chocolate frostie!!”. I wish the parents of these kids could see that they are

setting their children up for a lifetime of diabetic and self-image problems. When

you develop an excessive amount of weight gain as a child, it becomes more

difficult for the kids to get rid of the fat as they progress into teenage years.

We all had that “baby chub” as kids but that isn’t what I’m talking about.

I’m taking about the kids who already have a “beer-belly” looking stomach.

I’m not saying to just stop eating this food I’m saying that kids need to exercise as

well, especially if McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s or even In-N-Out is being

consumed.

I see less children outside playing tag and hide and go seek with their

friends and playing lava at parks. You know…the game where you cant touch the

woodchips or else you melt. Yup, those were the fun times as children. Staying in

and watching Disney Channel or some other pointless TV channel who’s star actors

and actresses become screw-ups isn’t the way you should live your young years. I

barely watched TV as a kid. Obviously I had my weekly Zaboomafoo show but after

I would go ride my bike with my friends around the neighborhood or go swim in

my pool.

I see less children becoming active and more becoming lazy. When you

become lazy you start to eat more. We’ve all binged eaten junk food and watched

TV for at least one full day. For one day I guess its okay but its best not to make a

habit out of it.

Corporations have taken control of families with younger kids. There are

advertisements for sodas and junk food places everywhere you go. Corporations

put cheap plastic toys in their meals to make kids want to eat the food. They have

lowered the prices of their meals to make it more affordable for families on a low

budget.

There was one time I saw this little girl crossing up at Arroyo Verde and I

had never seen a child with a belly like that. My jaw instantly dropped and I gasped

with surprise. Then slowly I see the mom of this child walking towards the light

and I feel a frown in between my eyebrows. It amazes me to see families like this. I

understand that they might have health problems or don’t have enough money to

buy a healthy meal but that doesn’t give them the excuse to not exercise either. If

anything exercise would help your health problems and they most likely got the

problem from eating and not exercising. Sure you can eat a shitty fatty food but if

you can do that, then you can at least jog a mile on a treadmill.

When I’m older I want to see less children with diabetes and insecurities

about weight. I want to live in an America where it isn’t expensive to eat healthy

and exercise. I want to see more children playing lava in the parks and having

healthy picnics with their families on sunny, bright days. When I’m older I want to

live in a healthier America.