What You Eat Matters

Health Information, Nutritional and Dietary advice is everywhere. We plan exercise, diets, eliminating food that is known to be associate with cancers,  heart disease and other illnesses. We spend enormous amounts of money on food supplements, vitamins, and antioxidants, while we consume foods that are statistically associated with heart disease and cancers. Sadly economic incentives drive much misinformation. Multilevel internet business promotes sales for additional income. This is combined with an agribusiness mindset for profits and the recent downturn in employment and income.  These combine with the retail environment of harmful foodstuffs displayed in supermarkets emphasizing foods high in sugars (fructose), and fats.

We read about all these facts and understand it, however in reality few of us practice good nutrition. 

Perhaps "it takes a village" to accomplish this on an individual basis. I compare this to group therapy. Perhaps we need a new self help system of "Obesity anonymous' . No one says "I am fat".  You are more likely to hear "I am a few pounds overweight", or "I could stand to lose a few pounds, or so".

They are all in denial. When I hear the 'few pounds' or "lose a few pounds" I respond, No, you are obese" I lose a few friends, but I have attempted to either save a life or add a quality of life to that person. And it may be more helpful to giving CPR to an unfortunate heart attack victim. And the survival rate is much higher that someone who needs CPR for cardiac arrest. According to 2014 data, nearly 45 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims survived when bystander CPR was administered. survival rate is dismal for those patients who have cardiac arrest and who are successfully resuscitated.  Why does the American Heart Association present the opinion that the glass is half full,  The question is how does it compare to a health diet ?  These statistics do not even assess the issue of cancer and other chronic diseases.

 Is the glass half empty or half full?  Why do we all hesitate to confront obese people?"  They have  long been discriminated against by society.  We have all stood behind a grossly obese person checking out at a supermarket with their cart filled with unhealthy items.  Perhaps we need cashiers to refuse to sell harmful products to fat people, just like we do for alcoholic beverages for minors.

In all fairness I must give time to an article in NPR in which they state ,

Cardiac Arrest Survivors Have Better Outlook Than Doctors Think

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