Unhealthy America

American is supposed to be the strongest nation in the world however we have managed to grasp the largest and approximately inflammatory nation trophy along with it. Americans care to a enormouser extent intimately how chop-chop they can grab a meal rather than what that meals consists of and how unskilled the intellectual nourishment is for the body. Americans are becoming increasingly mental with e reall(a)y meal they consume. My aunt went on a tour to Greece recently where she says the food was piercing and utterly delicious. maculation she was crashing a Greek wedding she got to hump more or less of the traditional food.She said the meats were f whole discharge the bone tender with more explosive tastes than her taste buds could handle. She said the salad was a rainbow of green lettuce with mixed with reds of all colors for tomatoes. She produced a tiny bottle that once was full of homespun Greek salad dressing that the m opposite of the bride had made especially for her daughters perfect day. She recalled how immaculate the food was saying specifically she had never seen such(prenominal) amazing foods in America and wished she could bring the cooks backside with her.She later told me that when she got back to the states, she realized nevertheless how bad she ate before she went on her trip and she sees more establishly now just how unhealthy Americans really are. Her chronicle prompted me to step back and direct closer at how we as a nation choses what we are eating. I took my word of honor to the grocery store to pretend food for the next couple weeks. I made all of his food myself instead of buying processed baby food because I lie with it is much healthier for him and it makes me think nigh what I eat. fleck we were in the fruits and ve write discomfitables isle, I non methampheta tap hydrochlorided we were one of three people shopping in this area while the rest of the market place was packed with people. With the precedent conversation stuck in my head, I decided to look around at what other(a)s were purchasing around me. I spotted a woman with a shopping cart mounding over with food. The looks of her cart reminded me of a contest I watched on TV where the mom got 5 legal proceeding to get as much stuff as she could and by the end of her 5 minutes her cart was overflowing with stuff.As I watch her carefully conduct what she was placing in her cart I realized we were in the quick-frozen foods section. She was stark(a) at a glass doorsill intensely. Behind that glass door sat probably 20 various variations of ice cream. While this quaint and her overweight daughter discussed the options together, I watched her pick up twain different one gallon containers of ice cream. One container had umber swirls throughout the off white vanilla ice cream and the other had the same chocolate swirls accompanied by pink strawberry swirls.I could hear her daughter asking for one kind and her mother saying she wanted the other kind. So instead of having to choose between the dickens different gallons of ice cream, she placed both containers in her al translatey overflowing cart. I could grit both of their insulin levels increasing as they began to walk away with their prized frozen treats. While I was standing in the isle with this mother-daughter duo, I was able to get a ingenuous look at what they had stuffed in to their cart.I adage several blue boxes of Mac-N-Cheese paired with packages of processed animal intestines otherwise cognize as hotdogs. I could count six boxes of Hamburger Helper and distri scarcelyively one a different variation notwithstanding all boxes had the expand in bold of being doubly cheesy. I would think that a box of processed food that only needs to have piss added to it is not the healthiest meal a mother could make for her child. I in equal manner spotted a couple 12 packs of various types of soda. I sawing machine short green soda containers of ind ividual bottles of Mountain Dew placed neatly on the side wall of her cart.Thinking to myself I remembered some issue I read saying that Mountain Dew has the most sodium per bottle than any other soda drink in the business. I came to the conclusion that my aunt was right. We as a nation are not only eating unhealthy but teaching our children to do the same as well. After leaving the grocery store with our fruit and veggies in hand, I decide to period of time at fast food restaurant to grab a salad for lunch. While in line the person ahead of me places his methodicalness. The young lady taking his order is a very short woman with a very wide stance.As he gives his order I recount the experience that I had just had, watching this stranger and her daughter purchase dope quantities of food that were processed and extremely unhealthy. The gentleman tells the cashier he would like a Quarter Pounder with cheese. He asks for an unneeded slice of cheese, extra pickles and no lettuce or tomato. While the young lady quickly punches thing in to her computer screen to detail the order to his specific wants, he also adds that he would like to supersize his meal and requests a fresh mound of French fries.In my head, still reeling from my conversation with my aunt, I thought about how much grease this man is going to eat in just his lunch sitting. The woman waddled over to the fryers that were full of what looked like grease that had not been changed in a week, pulled out a new bag of frozen French fries, filled the container full of them and slid them in to the hot, boiling grease to cook. With his order being made, I couldnt help but to think of all of the calories in his meal that he was getting ready to devour. He stepped past waiting on his food and I placed my order for a grilled salmon salad with no dressing.I quickly realized our two orders couldnt be more on the opposite sides of the nutrition chart as his meal was nothing but fat and grease and mine contain ing lettuce, fish, cheese and tomatoes. Another stranger opting to eat absolutely nothing good for them. As I sit down to enjoy my salad I look around and see the meals of others in the restaurant. I take out a package of already cut up bite size pieces of peaches for my son to each since he is only 7 months old. Trying to be inconspicuous, I look at the table next to me.A mother and her two young children are sitting, enjoying their lunches. The mother had a cheeseburger with so much catsup running out of the sides you would think there was more ketchup that meat. Her youngest son had a 10 piece chicken nugget meal. The nuggets were obviously fried but the meat inside was a strange color of grey leading me to believe it was fake meat. The little boy devoured each nugget only later carefully dipping each one of the nuggets in to a tub of grill sauce, making sure to lather each inch of the nugget to his desired amount.The oldest boy had the same fried, strangely grey food but wa s dipping his nuggets in to ketchup. In my head I couldnt help but to sum up their lunch as to being fried fat and fried imitation meat, all lathered in a sodium filled dipping sauce. I quickly finished my meal and headed for the door. I had set my mind that I would not be like that mother, teaching her sons that eating unhealthy was acceptable. As I started putting away my groceries, I also started riding my cupboards and refrigerator from anything processed.It was clear to me that the word unhealthy was quickly becoming our nations primary adjective. As I reflect on my conversation with my aunt and the experiences I had with the unknowing strangers I watched purposely chose fatty, processed, fried and ultimately the most unhealthy foods possible, I realized obesity is not just a condition used to define a plus size individual but a growing epidemic that is quickly spreading across our great nation. Unhealthy Americans are more prominent in society at present and the growing tre nd does not look to be slowing down any time soon.