Tipping The Scale

Ever so often this similar alarm rings out loud and disturbing, that there are now 400 million young people in the world under 40 being classified as obese, with the anorexic on the other side of the scale. The problem of the latter is less talked about, hopefully it's because it's less in number and severity.

This strange society of ours today seems to be like a pendulum, that swings from anorexia to obesity, with those of the 3rd world countries, whose pointed rib-bones practically perforating the skin watching helplessly and in resignation, as spectators. A lot of outcry on every level but not much seems to be done to lessen or root out the problem.

I have no idea what is being done about the anorexia, nor if any practical help is being given to those hungry neighbours, skinny not through dieting but for lack of food. In Spain the schools and parents are blaming each other, and when these accusations and quarrels brought no results, they ganged up together blaming the education department and the government.

So now steps have been taken, under guidance or order by the authority, they have designated special classes and courses for children, showing them what spinach looks like and how good it is to eat broccoli, as though they were the ones doing the shopping and cooking the wrong type of food.

First the parents, then the canteens of schools, ought to acquire the knowledge of food values and the correct balance of a healthy diet, properly cooked and attractively presented, as you eat with your eyes first. It's their responsibility, not the government's or the society's. Plus practicing what you preach to give an example. Wouldn't work if you are munching a double-Decker hamburger with Coca Cola, but expecting the children to accept happily the spinach or broccoli with a glass of water.

Bon Appetite!

Tags:obesity,anorexia,pendulum

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