One of the events which had such a profound effect in my life was when my sister died of Diabetes complications. She was so sick and ill every day. My sister was going to Dialysis 5 days a week. She needed to go onto the kidney tranplant list but had to lose 100lbs first in order to get her name on that list. She did everything to try and lose weight including and up to drug use. That is how frustrated my sister was about Diabetes and losing weight. As a last resort, she tried to use cocaine to lose weight. God Rest Her Soul. She was such a beautiful person and she lost her life because she didn't understand the ramifications of eating good ole sould food!
I remeber as a child we were praised when we ate a lot. My granmother was so thrilled to see us eat all our food. My dad used to say, " now that is a real Williams" when you would go back for seconds or even thirds. They encouraged us to eat uncontrollably and we never ever took vitamins. The first time I ever saw a person take a vitamin was when I was 18 and lived with my ex at the time. He took those vitamins religously. His mother was a nurse and she made sure they took their vitamins on a daily basis. Ultimately, as I watched my sister's life wither away from her I knew I was looking into a Mirror. I had a choice either die or fight to live. I did everything from joining a fitness class in school and lifting weights but no matter how hard I tried I could not lose the weight. Not until I finished my Associate Degree and went on to the University. I started taking those nutritional courses and they were awesome. I began to read just how much we have been manipulated into obesity and if you notice the newest trend now is weight loss. A lot of $$$$ to be made on weight loss. This is the newest wave of business in the USA.
This method has awalys been used in business, give them a product they love, get them addicted-knowing they will be sick and dying, then make money when we take this addiction away. This method was used when they allowed prohibition(Alcohol) to become legal. This method was used when they advertised smoking as the coolest thing ever in the early 1900's and later. Within the last 15 years the medical profession has made so much $$$ on stop smoking programs and then comes all of the no-nonsense advertisers to get your money and offer no results. The will of man was broken from each one of these addictive behaviors. Food was next on the list. I remeber as a child we never had snacks and they were not mandatory. They first introduced snacks, then came the value meals, next on the campaign was the "Super size" you actuallly paid less for more food. What a bargain it was and we all ran out for these wonderful deals. Everything got bigger our taste in homes, our taste in cars, and of course or wallets were even fatter as jobs became plentiful so we could afford everything our hearts desired.
Think my brothers and sisters, I urge you to control your desire to eat big luscous meals tomorro. I urge you to think about your health. They keep telling everyone about accountablitity and what that means in health-care is one's ability to take care of themself. You will need to take care of yourself by eating less and getting fit. Take the time to walk to the store. Stop riding in scooters at the store because they are accessible. Drink water instead of soda and limit your meat control. I will discuss all of these things at later dates.
I love you Leslie and I will remeber you always!
Please people select the link below so you can see the ads for smoking in the early 1900s and on.
http://indymotorspeedway.com/cigs/1950s.html
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