Eat to Live

If ever there was a phrase to be used by a health food store it should be "eat to live, not live to eat", because oh man, does America have an obesity problem. My favorite of Ben Franklin's proverbs is "Eat to live, and not live to eat". I like this Proverb for a number of reasons, but the main one is that it is the greatest advice to anyone who is overweight. For the people in America today who are overweight, this phrase was clearly not apart of there everyday diets. For me personally it was. This is probably due to the fact that my mom is a dietitian and she has always preached to us about healthy foods and proper eating habits, but not everyone has the privilege of having a parent who does this. In many homes today the parents feed their children whatever they want and the children become obese as do the parents. These poor people are living to eat and as a result they become obese. Meanwhile in America a change is happening, a change that will help many of these families reverse these habits or at the least make them less damaging. This change is the organic/all natural foods movement. Within the past couple of years Organic foods have become extremely popular. This change is a step towards eating to live instead of living to eat.