Where are the answers?

Smoking is not a healthy thing to do, nor do people have to smoke in order to live. It’s a conscious choice.
People do have to eat and drink water in order to live; and they have to do it every day.
What do we know about our food? Do we know what’s in it, where it came from, its nutritional content, what it was grown in, or whether we should be eating it at all? What about our water?
How many products on the grocery store shelves, whether food, personal hygiene or cleaning products, contain known carcinogens?
Why do we accept that 30% of our kids are headed toward diabetes, and that 50% of them are overweight?
Why do we accept that kids are in the house watching TV or doing computer games during the day because it isn’t safe for them to be outside playing?
How many people take the time to learn how to quickly and easily cook a few things that might be healthy, rather than just pick up fast food for the family dinner?
Could it be that there is a lot more money to be made by not even trying to teach people the answers to any of the above questions?
Where are the TV commercials showing the evils of a fast food diet? Did you ever see a commercial that showed you how to quickly sauté some Swiss chard, steam some winter squash, or make a gourmet salad cheaply and quickly?
Ever see a commercial showing an obese kid being told he’s got diabetes from consuming too many “Super Sized” fast foods?
Ever see a commercial showing a grieving husband blaming ‘Nachos Grande’ for his wife’s heart attack?
Of course not; and you wont. There’s no money in good health. As long as the people who say they are concerned with our health don’t have to actually do anything important or serious, as long as there’s more money in doing nothing, they don’t even want you to ask those kinds of questions. The big money is in seeing to it that we have poor health, regardless of the lip service to the contrary.
Those people are keeping us focused on the evils of smoking, under the guise of taking care of our health. As long as 100% of us have to eat and drink every day in order to just live, the people who say they are concerned about our health should inform 100% of us about our food and water.
I think they won’t. I think they’ll keep promoting the evils of the fewer than 30% who smoke. Make those rascals pay more taxes! Where’s the tax on a double cheeseburger with fries? Obesity is the much larger health problem today, yet smokers are in the minority, so they’re penalized more easily.
Some will keep us pitted against each other in every facet of our daily lives, in any area of life that can be worked. That’s easy; it’s popular, and it makes us think they’re actually doing something about our health.