Response to CR

For the number of people who aspire to look beautiful to the world, there is certainly an enormous number of people who are obese. Mainly because the general American wants things done fast with as little effort as possible. So, instead of going into the kitchen and cooking a fresh from scratch meal, it is way easier and less time consuming to open up a frozen pizza box and popping it in the oven. In the carolina reader it suggests this. It also says "The obesity problem is really a side effect of things that are good for the economy." This suggests that all of these quick and easy things can be quite convenient and good every once in awhile when we just do not have time, but these fast and easy meals are taking over almost every meal. The figures for the money spent in the carolina reader show huge amounts of money thrown at fast food, cookies, potato chips, and restaurants. Then there is also the $124.7 billion in treatments related to obesity. If the resources were not constantly there to be able to give in to the temptations of things like french fries, perhaps America would not be so overweight. We are the richest country in the world but yet we are by far not the healthiest. Americans should put that $124.7 billion towards healthier things than medical treatments like exercising and healthier foods.