10-20-2009, 11:12 AM
Quote:Being health conscious is occasionally fashionable, but most of the time its considered square. When you are young, you believe you are immortal, so you get addicted to soda pop, french fries, and sugary snacks. Then, when you are 30ish you get this wake up call when you suddenly discover your metabolism has slowed down and you can't work it off like you did before. I made this point before. We could save a trillion or so in health care costs, if we just spent some time and money encouraging a preventative lifestyle.
Probelm is that especially in the US but also in other countries, your consuming lifestyle is what keeps the economy running. Many big multinationals live of the fact the people eat too much and too much crap.
However also people that lead healthy lifes need medical care, so spending add-campaign money or changing regulations for fast food restaurant will only get you so far.