Happy Earth Day! How's your health? Or, Earth Day as a metaphor for your health! Today is Earth Day... and how are we feeling? Last year's Earth Day saw the beginning of the largest oil spill in US history and in the year since then the number of overweight and obese Americans reached their highest numbers in American history.
According to Wikipedia, the accident known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (or the BP oil spill, or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or the 2010 oil spill) killed 11 and injured 17 more when an explosion occured. Before the well was capped, nearly 5 MILLION barrels of crude oil escaped into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A fat burning review can help you build a clear describe of what you demand to focus on to carry out your fat burning goal if you're a beginner; or serve as a reminder for the ones who are at an intermediate or more boost step of their weightloss plan. Promptly after are seven steps that can serve as guidelines for your own weight loss system. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same thing. Many weight loss applications have misled people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss applications only work by producing a person's body to reduce more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. In terms that more people understand, the spill totaled around 200 MILLION Gallons of crude oil. The spill has had massive impacts on the Gulf coast fisheries, wildlife, and tourism.
The latest data from the US government says that more than 25 million Americans are now diabetic. Nearly one third of all American adults now has high blood pressure. Two out of three adults in the USA are overweight, and one out of three are considered to be medically obese. More than 100 million Americans have high cholesterol.
March 11 of this year witnessed a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that led to a level 7 (the highest, or worst, level) nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan. The accident contaminated seawater as well as releasing radiation into the atmosphere. The half life of plutonium-239 is over 24,000 years. That means it will take about 120,000 years for 95% of the radioactive substances to decay.
According the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, Americans now spend over 300 BILLION dollars on prescription drugs per year, or more than $900 per person. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the average American now consumes more than 150 POUNDS of added sugar per year. Most of this added sugar is made from corn, and the number one corn sweetener is HFCS (high fructose corn syrup). What this means in the number of calories department is that the typical American consumes more than a quarter of a million calories of nutritionally empty added sugar per year.
Read "Happy Earth Day! Or is it?" to see how groundwater contamination and carbon monoxide emissions are problems all across the United States. Read also "Earth Day 2010: Where are we now, 40 years later?" to look at the thousands of new chemicals now added to food, many of which have never even been assigned for toxicology tests. This leads to a toxic environment and toxic bodies.
The moral of the story? We need our bodies and we need our planet in order to survive. Maybe it is time we started taking care of them.
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