Obesity Epidemic

I used to be able to look up from my garden and see sky, but now that my neighbors have decided to add on, this is what I look at. Americans are trained to think bigger is better, more successful, it translates to cheap mega mansions, our vehicles getting larger and larger, SUV being the norm car to drive.  Capitalism will stop at nothing to sell, destroying our land and destroying our health, as kids walk out of gas stations with 2 liter cups of soda and icey’s. America is fat all around.

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