Shut up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, Second Edition, Revised & Updated

CHAPTER EIGHT

FITNESS, FATNESS, AND MORE

Americans have become the fattest society on earth. By 2020, 75 percent of Americans will be clinically obese. By 2050, one-third of us will have diabetes and the top contributor is obesity. For the first time in history we are raising a generation of children who are not going to outlive their parents. Medical costs for obesity are already through the roof and will only go up and get worse. And medical expenses are the number one cause of bankruptcy. Over 300,000 adult deaths per year in the United States alone are directly attributable to unhealthy eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle. All because people can't stop eating like pigs and won't move. Hundreds of thousands of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers will deprive their family of their existence because they won't stop eating and won't move. I want to make it clear I am not an expert in this area, but I know this: Nothing will contribute more to your health than a proper diet and exercise. We are going to spend $40 billion in the diet industry this year when much of it could be solved with a walk and by putting down the fork. But you know most of that already, right? Few people really don't understand or won't agree that proper diet and exercise will help them lead a longer, healthier life.

“Larry, this is ridiculous! What is the problem with people?”

What it is the problem? Stupidity, I guess.

PEOPLE ARE STUPID

“So you think people are stupid?” No. I don't ...