Fat Nations

In the last fifty years the western nations of this world have grown fat, by this I mean the people who live in these rich countries. The western nations in my view are fat nations.

Look at the Americans and British and you will see that the average waist size of both man and woman has grown beyond reasonable measure. This growth has been the product of too many advances in technology.

Long ago you could see many a teenager playing football on the local park after their day at school, now the parks are a desolate place where no one treads and its all because of the personal computer.

Long ago you could see housewives hand washing clothes and crockery but now they put them in machines that do it for them.

Long ago you could see men walking to the shops for their daily newspaper but now it is all done by car.

Time has moved forward and so has the luxuries we enjoy in life, but these luxuries have made the average person very lazy, so lazy in fact that they cannot even make their own dinner and put ready meals in the microwave or even buy takeaways two or three times a week.

I believe the problem in todays society is that we are so used to getting what we want without lifting a finger, so much so that we dont have "time" to mow the lawn or spend thirty minutes kicking a ball around with our children when the truth is we are lazy. What makes matters worse is that we are the role models of our youth and if we show them how easy it can be to kick back and let technology do the work for us then they will become even bigger and lazier than we are now.