This week’s startling fact (1/2/12):
Millions of Americans will stream into diet clinics and gyms this week, beginning the inevitable “New Year’s Resolution” rush, a phenomenon that routinely starts with a new-found energy and then quickly fades into non-existence.
But for all of our no carb diets, Jenny Craig meals, Slimfast shakes, and gymnasium boot camps last year, we still live in a nation where 70% of the population are overweight or obese. According to statistics from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and US Census Bureau…
Americans are more likely to graduate college (29%) than they are to be of a healthy weight (21%).
Well then, apparently whatever we are learning in college, it isn’t how to be healthy. The reality is that it’s natural for us to look for quicker, easier, cheaper ways to stay healthy — and the market isn’t ignorant to this fact — so we are often duped into buying less-healthy pre packaged foods instead of more nutritious ‘real’ foods.
One of our New Year’s Resolutions is to help buck that trend. What’s yours?
Links:
Caring for Cancer with Organic Foods
Nutritional Superiority of Plant Based Organic Foods – PDF
