America: Fat and Stupid by Design

[madprophet]

Since WWII, Americn education and physical fitness stayed near the top on the world scale until the mid 80's, about the time the Cold War died out. Military downsizing coincided with educational funding cuts. The government no longer needed to turn out soldiers or scientists. Uneducated and out of shape doesn't make for much resistance. Add 400 sattelite channels and it won't matter if someone has the right to keep and bear arms. But hey, about five years ago "childhood obesity" hit the spotlight, right around the time our government realized we weren't getting out of the mideast anytime soon.( remember the soviets in Afghanistan?) So America, do a crossword puzzle and some sit-ups. Time to think or die agian, for a little while,...I guess.

[Fascist]

It's the curse of success. When a nation achieves preeminence in the world the people tend to become lazy and depraved. Our fathers fought to secure a future for us , but what future? When I lived in europe I would think nothing of walking a mile and a half to work, because I did every day, now I don't even want to walk to the corner store. I'll tell you this, when you are walking and carrying your groceries, you tend to buy a little less than you would fit in your car. Time to bring back daily phys ed classes, and no, your mommy can't write you a note to get out of it. I don't care if you do have asthma.

[outlander]

I think it's hitting the US first and the other western countries are slowly catching up with them. However even though in NZ I see a bit of this happening I do not see some of the bizarre products here such as Olestra, Splenda, High Fructose Corn Syrup and I don't notice people here popping psychoactive meds like tic-tacs.. It is frightening to see over time what becomes the new normal. It is now normal to watch 8hrs TV a day, drink 3 litres of soda a day, take meds all day etc.