Given the economic situation that we are in why is it that the predominant culture of this country seems to be pre occupied with emulating the American obsession with giant portions of everything? With the shocking news that a huge proportion of our children are either already obese or are heading towards obesity all we see in the high street is famous fast food chains offering to supersize the meal deals. Yes, I know, a lot of them do now have a salad option on the menu but have you ever seen a child eating one?
Look in a famous health food store window and you can see packs of their products that are bigger than the old party cans of beer that we used to buy back in the day, and yes they really did used to last the night!
Out the other day for a working lunch in an all you can eat buffet Chinese restaurant I couldn’t believe how high some people were piling up their plates. Yes, I really enjoyed my meal and no, I don’t have the appetite of a sparrow (would that I did!) but one of those plates would have been three meals for me.
Are we really all going to eat a whole society into ill health or death.
If we keep it up we won’t need enemies to hurt us we can just blow ourselves up and out with our greed!
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