Convenience Can Lead to Poor Nutrition

Let’s face it…we have become lazy, soft, and complacent in this
modern age. As a result our health suffers. We are striving for
academic excellence, financial freedom, and job and political
equality while allowing our bodies to rot away. You cannot enjoy
the fruit of financial independence or academic excellence when
you are constantly being hospitalized, or at home sick as a
result of neglecting your body.

As with anything else, the convenience which promotes
deteriorating health can be taken to the extreme. I think that
our rapidly advancing technology has lulled us into doing just
that. This is especially true in America.

If you want to introduce a concept, idea, law, or any change in
general, it can be accomplished with a guaranteed 100 percent
success rate through a program of gradualism. An example of this
process is the question of security. At first, closed circuit
cameras appeared in department stores, and then slowly they began
to appear in convenience stores, banks, and post offices. This
hasn’t happened all at once, but slowly—gradually. Now we have
become so accustomed to them that we don’t pay attention to them
anymore

The process of gradualism has come along on the back of advancing
technology. The end result of gradualism is ‘convenience.’ All
across the nation stores such as Krauszer’s, Quick Chek,
7-Eleven, and others just like them have popped up over the
years. These stores are called ‘convenience’ stores. And a new
trend has come on the scene. There are now convenience stores in
gas stations.

Since convenience stores are ubiquitous, we tend to patronize
them often. “What’s the harm?” you may be asking. Look at the
items for sale in these stores. Potato chips of all varieties and
descriptions, pretzels, candies, sodas, chewing gums galore, and
pastries comprise the bulk of the items sold at these stores.
Sandwiches can also be purchased at most of them. All of these
items can be summarized in two words—junk food. At least in the
typical supermarket there is a section, albeit small, containing
organic food.

The typical American diet consists of junk food. Junk food
coupled with a nonexistent exercise program presents a problem.
This is why I described Americans as “lazy” and “soft” at the
beginning of this article. The proliferation of convenience
stores and mini-marts just makes a bad situation worse. The
greater the availability and the more convenient the store, the
more they will be patronized.

I had a sweet tooth when I was growing up. I ate lots of ice
cream, pastries and candies. But breakfast, lunch, and dinner
were solid, home-cooked and prepared meals. That’s not true
today. Most of our jobs and schools contain vending machines
filled with junk food and sodas. These are our snacks. Our
lunches are purchased from McDonald’s or Burger King or one of
the many other fast food stores. And breakfast, if eaten at all,
is bought at Dunkin’ Donuts. None of this processed food will
lead to good health.

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