| There have been many epidemics in history, | | | | authorities in warning the public of the |
| and some have been really catastrophic, | | | | dangers of adhering to a diet of toxic laden, |
| causing fatalities running in to tens of | | | | grease filler junk foods. |
| millions. And these in times when the World's | | | | |
| population was considerably less than what it | | | | Increasingly more these huge fast food chains |
| is today. | | | | are altering their menus to place more of an |
| | | | emphasis on healthier eating, and reducing |
| Yet in the advanced age in which we like, | | | | their reliance on cholesterol laden fats when |
| with advances of medical technology moving | | | | frying their food. |
| forward in great leaps and bound, the sad | | | | |
| fact is that the world is facing one of its | | | | It is estimated that the current costs of |
| greatest challenges and an epidemic which, if | | | | treating chronically overweight people is |
| it remains untreated, is estimated to | | | | costing the US health authorities more than |
| seriously effect the health of around fifty | | | | 50 billion dollars every year. This sun will |
| million people by the middle of the century, | | | | fade into insignificance if the obesity |
| and that in the United States alone. | | | | epidemic is not checked. Increased awareness |
| | | | of the physical and financial ramifications |
| What is most horrendous about this epidemic | | | | of obesity is slowly taking effect and more |
| that is a non viral, self created anomaly | | | | and more people are turning the corner in |
| which is readily curable? It is obesity; | | | | curing themselves from the disease. |
| caused by the overeating, eating the wrong | | | | |
| type of foods and lack of exercise that is | | | | This involves applying disciplines that have |
| the way of life for too many people in the | | | | remained unused for too long. To eat less, |
| beginning of the 21st century. The only cure | | | | and to eat healthier and to exercise more. |
| for obesity comes from within. | | | | The first step in this new regime is to have |
| | | | the colon flushed to rid it of all the junk |
| The only way that the medical profession can | | | | and grease that has accumulated there. This |
| help in finding a cure is to advise the | | | | will have a double pronged effect. Firstly to |
| people who suffer from it how much damage | | | | wipe the slate clean and have the colon |
| they are doing to themselves and their loved | | | | working at its maximum capability. This will |
| ones by continuing to follow this blinkered | | | | bring on a more positive feeling that the new |
| path of self indulgence. A glimmer of hope is | | | | disciple to healthy living will want to |
| that many of the fast food chains, who have | | | | continue. Gradually they will cure themselves |
| made their name and their fortune, are | | | | of their obesity, and hopefully ensure |
| standing by the side of the health | | | | themselves of a longer and healthier life. |