Since I lost weight and got back on the good and healthy train, I have been extremely motivated to help others to lose weight and get themselves on the path to better health and a new life. It always makes me angry when I hear of so many stories of people literally eating themselves to death through a combination of no exercise and of merely shovelling vast quantities of junk into their bodies on a daily basis.
This is an absolute disgrace when you consider the opposite end of the spectrum in that majority of the people in the world are still living in abject poverty while we make sport and fun out of things like competitive eating and gorging on 2nd, 3rd and 4th helpings of food from the dinner table. No ordinary person should be eating that much on a frequent basis.
As supposedly the most educated societies on the planet, we in the west have been taken in by our own laziness and for chasing the quickest and easiest way forward. We are always worried about not having enough time to do things and exercise and eating take a back seat to stuff like work. Life is so short though and I am pretty sure that when all is said and done and we are on our deathbeds one day, none amongst us is going to be saying that they wish that they could have spent more time working.
Reading today about a person who had literally eaten themselves to death, I could only but think what a waste that is of a life. I am not sure where the answer lies just yet, but am working on a number of projects to try and combat this happening in the future. We have to get really serious about this as a society if we are to beat the epidemic of obesity. It has to be looked at from all angles and from the roots (in the youth) upwards.
I would be interested to hear about any community based projects that are up and running to help combat this problem.
Running together (while beating obesity) stride for stride on a life changing ride! – Sean Muller
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