A Culture of Greed, Excess, and Laziness

American culture is interesting. It appears to be built on "greed, excess, and laziness." This builds a slippery path to diabetes.

First, we want to get valuable things for nothing, yet we want to do nothing to get valuable things. We want as much food as we can get for as small a price as possible - virtually for free. Food manufacturers and marketers understand this. They research and discover ways to create a lot of processed food cheaply. They develop a marketing campaign that convince you, "so much for so little." Because don't have a lot of money and time, we say, "what a deal," then buy this product - over and over again.

But there is a catch. The real price is eating a lot of this cheap food will cost you your health in the future.

Secondly, we want to do nothing to get valuable things like good health. Most of us need to loose abdominal fat. Really, some of us need to loose excess fat from all over our bodies. But for one excuse or another we don't want to exercise.

Even those who know how important burning calories is are not willing to exercise or increase our level of physical activity. Note: Our cells, muscle cells in this case, have he ability to take in glucose with the help of insulin. Inside the cell, glucose is broken down by this process called "glycolysis" to produce chemical energy units. The net result is we are taking excess glucose from our bloodstream. But, we want to do nothing. So instead, we hope and pray for an easy instant solution - you know, a pill.

Companies are more than willing to sell us wonder pills - like the Phen-Phen pill. This was the instant weight loss pill that cost many people their health, and a few, their lives. in the long run, there is a price to pay - and you pay it.

The moral of this story is:
1. More does not always make you merrier (not in the long run);
2. Work hard to achieve things of value.

You will be glad you did (in the future).