Americans are becoming visibily FAT

[pipi_k]

59. I'm wondering, though...

if it's manufactured "concern".


I have a relative by marriage who is always posting feel-good crap on Facebook about healthy foods, healthy lifestyle, blah blah blah, and how it's so good for kids, blah blah blah.

yet every time we see photos, her kid is eating some crap or another, and at family functions she skips over the healthy stuff and is allowed to almost gorge on cake and ice cream or whatever desserts there are (mostly to shut her up because she's whining or throwing a fit).

The child's mom is an eating machine, and is probably 200 lbs overweight, if not more. Even her own father is ashamed of her eating habits (though not of HER, I just want to make that clear!).

She can wolf down three plates of food to my one.

Wolfing food is, as most of us know, not good. You end up eating way more than you would because your stomach isn't sending "I'm FULL!!!" signals to your brain.

Slow down. Enjoy your food...the taste...the texture. Don't just shovel it in.

So, getting to the point...maybe there's a big disconnect between what Americans are "concerned" about and what they actually do...