“Americans don’t know who they are, because they only know who they are on a diet of factory food products."
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From: Introduction Death by Supermarket
In recent film, after most of Los Angeles is destroyed by aberrant tornados, a climatologist warns the President of the United States that he must immediately enforce mass evacuations to save millions of Americans from an impending storm brought about by global warming. The president dismisses the urgency and refuses to take action. True to the climatologist’s predictions, a devastating storm and accompanying ice age obliterate the Northern Hemisphere.
The epidemic of obesity in the U.S. is as ominous as tornados ripping across Los Angeles. Americans are the fattest people walking the earth today. In a population of 300 million, up to 68 percent of our citizens are overweight. Some are so large they can’t fly on airplanes, go to a movie theater, or otherwise function in society. New industries have sprung up to accommodate “people of size” by manufacturing larger seats for restaurants, wheelchairs and toilets, mega hospital beds and XL coffins. It’s gotten so surreal, we hardly blink an eye at people being hoisted around with cranes.
I believe that the American diet of processed, convenience, junk, fast and otherwise industrialized “factory” food is the major contributing factor in our obesity epidemic. And this diet is also responsible for our skyrocketing rates of degenerative disease and ugly death. Yet because our medical community and government are not protecting us the epidemic escalates, with millions of people on a trajectory that is certain to culminate in apocalyptic human tragedy.
The message we should be hearing is that if Americans stopped eating all factory food and ate only real food we would calm the irrational craving that compels us to eat these injurious substances. Real food is organically produced meat, fish, poultry, dairy, vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, seeds and nuts that could (in theory) be picked, gathered, milked, hunted or fished. By giving our bodies and brains the necessary nutritional building blocks in real food, Americans would be a healthy, fit, sexy with each individual fully realizing his or her unique physical and mental potential—we’d be as intelligent, tall and physically and emotionally gifted as our genetics predispose us to be. This would dramatically reduce the number of patients flocking to obesity clinics, Ers, and shrinks’ offices. As it stands, though Americans worship youth and beauty, we are aging more rapidly than we have to because we eat factory food instead of real food.
