Posts Tagged ‘american food supply’

The new weapon for peace on earth took some American ingenuity. Leave it to us, we can come up with some unique solutions to some very complex problem

The Standard American Diet Is The Solution

The standard American diet is the solution as long as we export it to all belligerent nations. That means no more embargo, instead the opposite approach is the solution to the world’s turmoil.  

We can’t send our processed food over fast enough. The proportion of young Americans that are too fat to fight or serve in the military is so high, that it is posing a treat to our security. This is according to a group of retired military leaders. 

Retired US army generals John M.Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, referred to different sources, including the US Army”s own analysis to national data that shows as of 2005, 27 percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 were too overweight to serve in the military. That was in 2005, when some 9 million young adults, were deemed too overweight to serve.

The leading medical reason recruits are rejected for military service in the US today is for being overweight or obese, wrote Shalikashvili and Shelton, both members of the executive advisory council of Mission Readiness, a non profit organization to retired senior military leaders. Also, a recent report from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research showed over the past 15 years the proportion of potential recruits who have not passed their physical exam because of weight has gone up nearly 70 percent.

Retired Navy Rear Adm. James Barnett Jr, a member of the officers group, said at a recent press conference held by Mission: Readiness, that national security in the year 2030 is “absolutely dependent” on reversing child obesity rates.

“When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice,” said Barnett, according to a report by Associated Press.

The obesity problem doesn’t just affect recruitment, Mission: Readiness reports that the government spends tens of millions of dollars every year replacing military personnel that have to be discharged because of weight issues.

Sending Processed Food Overseas

Sending processed food overseas has to be less expensive than developing weapons of mass destruction. Also, the best part is once the people are addicted to the food, they will need us to keep supplying it. It would make sense for them not to destroy their source.

The other option is to implement don’t ask don’t tell where one’s weight is not taken. People can imply your overweight, but if you don’t mention this to anyone you can serve your country.

The L.E.A.N start program is essential to both yourself and your children. What has happened to our food supply is a crime against mankind. I really do not consider this an overstatement.

Guide

This is taken from the introduction to an Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. By the way this is probably the best book on the topic of what to eat.

This is a quote from the introduction; “To guide us we had instead, Culture, which, at least when it comes to food, is really just a fancy word for your mother. What to eat, what order in which to eat it, with what and when and with whom have for the most part of human history been a set of questions long settled and passed down from parents to children with out a lot of controversy or fuss.”

“But over the last several decades, mom lost much of her authority over the dinner menu, ceding it to scientists and food marketers (often an unhealthy alliance of the two) and, to a lesser extent, to the government with its ever-shifting dietary guidelines, food-labeling rules, and perplexing pyramids.”

Personal

The problem is personal, not something in the third person. Another quote from Michael Pollan’s book sums up the changes and damage incurred by the American food supply.

“What is driving such relentless change in the American Diet? One force is a thirty-two-billion-dollar food-marketing machine that thrives on change for its own sake. Another is the constantly shifting ground of nutrition science that, depending on your point of view, is steadily advancing the frontiers of our knowledge about diet, and health or is just changing its mind a lot because it is a flawed science that knows much less than it cares to admit.”

This is personal to the public that switched to margarine from butter. Then learned  that saturated fat was harmful and switched to poor quality vegetable oils. From a diet of real food we are told that fortified junk food is just as good.

It is personal because our own healthcare is now in doctors hands. We have lost control of our health by listing to the marketplace. This becomes even more personal when it affects our children’s lives.

Unintentional

Our children are the unintentional victims of our lifestyle. A child’s health begins in utero and progresses to the habits that they acquire in childhood. This is the time parents have the most influence and can form the foundation for their child’s health.

L.E.A.N Start

Dr. William Sears a foremost authority on children’s health has founded a program that addresses the concerns of today’s parents. He knows “A Child’s Health Begins with the Parent.”   

This is a course for the parents that pay dividends to their children.