Let's face it...
we have become lazy, soft, and complacent in this modern age.
As a result our health suffers.
We are striving for academic excellence, financial freedom, and job and political equality while allowing our bodies to rot away.
You cannot enjoy the fruit of financial independence or academic excellence when you are constantly being hospitalized, or at home sick as a result of neglecting your body.
As with anything else, the convenience which promotes deteriorating health can be taken to the extreme.
I think that our rapidly advancing technology has lulled us into doing just that.
This is especially true in America.
If you want to introduce a concept, idea, law, or any change in general, it can be accomplished with a guaranteed 100 percent success rate through a program of gradualism.
An example of this process is the question of security.
At first, closed circuit cameras appeared in department stores, and then slowly they began to appear in convenience stores, banks, and post offices.
This hasn't happened all at once, but slowly--gradually.
Now we have become so accustomed to them that we don't pay attention to them anymore The process of gradualism has come along on the back of advancing technology.
The end result of gradualism is 'convenience.
' All across the nation stores such as Krauszer's, Quick Chek, 7-Eleven, and others just like them have popped up over the years.
These stores are called 'convenience' stores.
And a new trend has come on the scene.
There are now convenience stores in gas stations.
Since convenience stores are ubiquitous, we tend to patronize them often.
"What's the harm?" you may be asking.
Look at the items for sale in these stores.
Potato chips of all varieties and descriptions, pretzels, candies, sodas, chewing gums galore, and pastries comprise the bulk of the items sold at these stores.
Sandwiches can also be purchased at most of them.
All of these items can be summarized in two words--junk food.
At least in the typical supermarket there is a section, albeit small, containing organic food.
The typical American diet consists of junk food.
Junk food coupled with a nonexistent exercise program presents a problem.
This is why I described Americans as "lazy" and "soft" at the beginning of this article.
The proliferation of convenience stores and mini-marts just makes a bad situation worse.
The greater the availability and the more convenient the store, the more they will be patronized.
I had a sweet tooth when I was growing up.
I ate lots of ice cream, pastries and candies.
But breakfast, lunch, and dinner were solid, home-cooked and prepared meals.
That's not true today.
Most of our jobs and schools contain vending machines filled with junk food and sodas.
These are our snacks.
Our lunches are purchased from McDonald's or Burger King or one of the many other fast food stores.
And breakfast, if eaten at all, is bought at Dunkin' Donuts.
None of this processed food will lead to good health.
we have become lazy, soft, and complacent in this modern age.
As a result our health suffers.
We are striving for academic excellence, financial freedom, and job and political equality while allowing our bodies to rot away.
You cannot enjoy the fruit of financial independence or academic excellence when you are constantly being hospitalized, or at home sick as a result of neglecting your body.
As with anything else, the convenience which promotes deteriorating health can be taken to the extreme.
I think that our rapidly advancing technology has lulled us into doing just that.
This is especially true in America.
If you want to introduce a concept, idea, law, or any change in general, it can be accomplished with a guaranteed 100 percent success rate through a program of gradualism.
An example of this process is the question of security.
At first, closed circuit cameras appeared in department stores, and then slowly they began to appear in convenience stores, banks, and post offices.
This hasn't happened all at once, but slowly--gradually.
Now we have become so accustomed to them that we don't pay attention to them anymore The process of gradualism has come along on the back of advancing technology.
The end result of gradualism is 'convenience.
' All across the nation stores such as Krauszer's, Quick Chek, 7-Eleven, and others just like them have popped up over the years.
These stores are called 'convenience' stores.
And a new trend has come on the scene.
There are now convenience stores in gas stations.
Since convenience stores are ubiquitous, we tend to patronize them often.
"What's the harm?" you may be asking.
Look at the items for sale in these stores.
Potato chips of all varieties and descriptions, pretzels, candies, sodas, chewing gums galore, and pastries comprise the bulk of the items sold at these stores.
Sandwiches can also be purchased at most of them.
All of these items can be summarized in two words--junk food.
At least in the typical supermarket there is a section, albeit small, containing organic food.
The typical American diet consists of junk food.
Junk food coupled with a nonexistent exercise program presents a problem.
This is why I described Americans as "lazy" and "soft" at the beginning of this article.
The proliferation of convenience stores and mini-marts just makes a bad situation worse.
The greater the availability and the more convenient the store, the more they will be patronized.
I had a sweet tooth when I was growing up.
I ate lots of ice cream, pastries and candies.
But breakfast, lunch, and dinner were solid, home-cooked and prepared meals.
That's not true today.
Most of our jobs and schools contain vending machines filled with junk food and sodas.
These are our snacks.
Our lunches are purchased from McDonald's or Burger King or one of the many other fast food stores.
And breakfast, if eaten at all, is bought at Dunkin' Donuts.
None of this processed food will lead to good health.
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