What’s causing our health problems?

I believe that most of the health problems nowadays are at least related to the foods we eat. This is the huge difference our times have against the times our grandparents have. Technology has a lot of contribution to this, too because what the technology did in being able to preserve the foods we consume probably did more harm than good. With preservation comes the required ingredients to be mixed with the food in order for them to last long in our shelves. The fact that this is happening meant that something is wrong with it - and the price we have to pay our our health. There is nothing more common now than cancer, heart attacks or stroke... most of these are or can be attributed or related to the lifestyle of the person who suffered from these disease. Lack of exercise, lack of proper diet - no fiber all preserved or canned meats, no more fresh meals and all are ready to eat... all can just be heated, and so on. These are threats to our health primarily because we all can say that part of our household items are canned goods, juices in carton boxes, we don't even squeeze our own oranges in the morning anymore... even fruits are not safe because of the stronger pesticides required to kill the insects who are probably mutating to adapt to their environment and survive... This is really scary!!! Imagine now, obesity has increased.. and even children below 10 have joined the numbers! Why is this happening...? here in the Philippines, i grew up playing street games as a kid, we ran around the house, play hide and seek, basically you get to sweat a lot! that is what kids do in our time... now kids sat around the house, they never evenn get to be under the sun for longer than 30 minutes, tops and their games are temple run... their fingers do the running for them.. they have digital pets... they have bubble shoots and never play the hoops outside... its crazy! we are doing this to ourselves! =(

Yeah, i agree.. i think what we eat now is shortening our life span.. Since most people love to eat instant foods with lots o preservatives.. those preservatives are killing us slowly.. so we have to stick with the natural.. It's had to tell what is natural though.. SInce some vendors say it's natural even though sometimes they put chemicals in it.

I don't know if the medical profession is really realizing anything (or admitting to it), or if it's because enough of us have been outraged enough that we begin to speak up. I believe that food is a problem, but like others, I believe it's only part of the problem. Look at us. We have access to enough food to flounder ourselves any time. We have real food, we have fake food, we have food laced with pesticides and herbicides and Roundup. We have food in winter that only grows in summer and food in the spring that only matures in the fall. We eat pretty much whatever we want whenever we want. That's not how nature feeds us and we are a part of nature, like it or not. Then there is exercise - or the lack of it. Too many times, we sit at our jobs all day then come home and after a brief "activity" of getting dinner, we sit at the TV until bedtime. Our muscles are weak and poor, our bones are porous and our minds are dull because of it. And the rest of the toxins we consume by breathing or drinking. Fluoride, chlorine and chlorine byproducts in our water supply, not to mention prescription medicines of all kinds. Then we breathe. Carbon monoxide, toxic factory fumes, poisons that were intended to kill "weeds," gases from our furniture and our beds. And we're supposed to be healthy? I wonder just how much the human body can stand. Probably not much more.

Too much of tension and anxiety.

I may say that the biggest influence that causes health problems is our attitude towards eating. /we are already educated about the wrong foods that might harm us but due to our negligence and lack of discipline we still eat unhealthy foods.

Hi sirnose! Diet is just one of the many factors that cause health problems. It could be the main factor since foods are what we take inside our body. Other factors could be pollution, stress, unhealthy lifestyle, etc.. And of course, that is not just in the US but worldwide. The problem with foods nowadays is that more are being processed and preserved. Even the 'organic' ones have chemicals on them

I believe diet is only part of America's health problem. The other part is exercise. The human body has been actively engaged in food gathering,(as in hunting, gathering, and preparing) for millions of years, and now in these recent times we sit in the car to travel, we sit while working, we sit while eating, and sit while playing. Is it any wonder we are over weight, and under developed physically?

Hi sirnose, I totally agree with you about the conditions of the food that we consume on a daily basic.. I remember back in my grandmothers time of life, most or none of the issues were even of...they ate more healthier foods and the obesity issue was not so rapidly taking over our lives...