After going into a sugar coma on my daughters' leftover Easter candy (and there is always too much left over), I posted a rant about it on facebook. It resonated with a few friends, who mused: why do we always have to celebrate every holiday and get together with food?! Here was my brief response:
We are a nation consumed with consumption, both culinary and material. We spend the most on health care and are the least healthy of industrialized nations. Just today, I read that, out of 35 modern nations, Mexico has the highest death rates from sugary soda consumption, and we are THIRD! I blame it on the Bermuda triangle of marketing, Big Pharma getting profiteering from sickness and disease, and our government's conflicting interest relationships with for-profit industries. Meanwhile, we are killing ourselves with chronic conditions like obesity, diabesity, heart disease, and pharmaceutical drug interactions, which recently replaced automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
It's my soapbox. I religiously read Dr. Joseph Mercola's website, which has changed my life, and I hope it will change others' as well.
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