Food For Thought

THERESA URIBE 12/09/2007

Food for Thought Did you every wonder why when you discussed with family or friends about health and nutrition issues they seem to fall on deaf ears?

Puzzled, I have had to ask myself this question many times. Why would a person continue to live an unhealthy lifestyle or make unhealthy food choices? Is it because they enjoy certain ways of living or foods and don’t want to change? Is it because they don’t realize what they are doing to their body until, it’s too late? Is it because it takes more time and money to live a healthier lifestyle? Or, is it because they trust that the FDA would never allow products to be sold to the public that may be harmful for us?

Confused to the answer to this question I decided to give a survey to family, friends and acquaintances. This survey included the young adult, middle age and elderly. It was also, given to middle and high income persons. I put together a 16 question survey relating to organic foods, health and nutrition issues and this was the survey results:

32% answered I don’t care: Which tells me that they enjoy certain ways of living or foods and don’t want to change even if it is harmful to their body.

32% answered I will do whatever it takes to be healthy: Which tells me there is still hope in the future for the health of American’s.

16% answered Never heard this before: Which tells me that they are uninformed in health and nutrition issues and they don’t realize the damage they are doing to their body.

15% answered It Is Too expensive To Live A Healthy Lifestyle: Which tells me they are usually giving a lame excuse maybe, to be cheap or lazy or both.

5% answered I trust in the FDA: Which tells me that they are misinformed on how this country is ran and operated.

We are going to talk about each of the five groups of people.

I Don’t Care Group:
This group may eventually wake up and smell the coffee burning but, sadly to say it is usually when it is too late. 32% of the people surveyed answered I don’t care about my health. That is a high number. Most of the people in this group have never been diagnosed with cancer or any type of serious disease to prompt them into action of living a healthy lifestyle. I say to this group in love, WAKE UP! Just look around you. Count on your two hands how many people in your immediate and extended family that have been diagnosed with cancer or a serious disease. What does this tell you? If your head count is zero, you are one of the few fortunate people at this point in life.

At the turn of the 20th century cancer was virtually unheard of. So, what has changed in the last 100 years that has caused these epidemics in the American health? I will tell you exactly what it is:

As of July, 2007 there were 301,139,947 people living in the United States. In 2004 10,326,000 Americans had cancer. That is less than one out of every thirty people got cancer in 2004. Wow!!!

Let’s take control of our life before it’s too late. No one truly cares about your health except for yourself.

Here is a link from The American Cancer Society that state the facts concerning how many people in 2004 had cancer in America.

Cancer Prevalence: How Many People Have Cancer?

I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Be Healthy Group:
This group gives me hope. I am happy to see that 32% of the people surveyed will do whatever it takes to be healthy. I would like to see this percentage get higher. If American’s concerned with health and nutrition ban together we can educate the uninformed and misinformed and in turn American’s can live healthier lives longer. Keep up the good work!

Uninformed In Health And Nutrition Issues Group:
This group are lambs being led to the slaughter. 16% of the people surveyed were misinformed on health and nutrition issues. This is a scary group to be in. They have their priorities mixed up. Knowledge is power. If you want any thing in life bad enough you need to go get it yourself. No one cares about your health the way that you do. Let us not continue to be uninformed on health and nutrition issues. Make your health one of your top priorities in life and go get educated from non-profit health organizations.

Excuse Bag Group
This is a sad group to be in because they are educated in health and nutrition issues but, they are not doing anything about it in their life. 15% of the people surveyed made an excuse why they could not live a healthy lifestyle.

If this group is concerned for the higher cost in living a healthy lifestyle, that can usually be fixed by spending less or no money on unhealthy lifestyle activities, foods or beverages.

If this group is concerned with the extra time that it takes to prepare healthy meals, let us take into account how much time we spend on activities that profit us nothing and lay those down.

We may come to find that we actually do have the time and the money to spend to live a healthy lifestyle.

Misinformed Of How This Country Is Ran And Operated Group
This group is usually the hardest ones to reach. They are the skeptics. Even if you present to this group hard facts or evidence they usually still won’t believe. I am pleased to know that it is only 5% of the people surveyed. This group of people are usually well educated and are up to date in politics, etc. Let’s be smart, not everything you hear and read is accurate, including what I have to say. If your health is important to you please find non-profit health organizations that have nothing to gain and learn the truth about health, nutrition and the FDA in America. Find out the truth how huge conglomerate industries are ran behind the scenes.

Do you really believe that the multi-trillion dollar pharmaceutical, food, oil, sugar and meatpacking industries truly care about your health? Don’t you realize that money buys most products and people? I knew this group would be skeptical, so I have the links below to be of some education for you.

http://www.topix.com/forum/nyc/T9VV84B41BII3OE9M

http://www.newstarget.com/z011401.html

Well folks, from giving this survey I have received the answers I was looking for. This survey shows me that Americans are in dire need of accurate information regarding health and nutrition issues. If you can help educate your fellow American and in turn change the health of our generations in the future to come, please do so. Suggestions:

If the health and nutrition conscious people of America ban together today we can make a difference on the health of our future in this country. One person can make a huge difference. Maybe that person is you.


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