Why are the rules for smoking advertising NOT the same for food advertising?

Anyone ever seen "warning this item contains trans fat that will cause heart disease and stroke". I didn't think so, but yet cigarette deaths are constantly declining. As for unhealthy food, well they just decided to allow food stamp use on fast food. No one wants to hear someone say that they are eating unhealthy. Seeing a warning, and thinking about it for yourself might work.

Nutrition Education?

That is probably how you are responding to this post right now. I would have responded the same way 10 years ago. Back then it was all about buffets, anorexia, and bulimia. Some how between worrying about being to skinny and living the american dream. We all forgot to learn about nutrition, and we all got over weight the new epidemic of today, tomorrow, and the future. High school gave us drug awareness, pregnancy awareness, anorexia awareness, alcohol awareness, and who could ever forget STD awareness. Where the hell was the nutrition awareness? I for one think it would have been good to know that those french fries I love were clogging my arteries with potential brain clots. Or that almost every product with wheat has tons of the same heart clogging trans fats in them. That the bacon burgers I carelessly swallowed can thicken my blood and harden my veins. That alone gives the chance of a stroke happening 3 to 1 odds, and all the diet coke drinkers are doubling their risk. This all sounds like important stuff to know doesn't it. So why am I just now finding out about it? Perhaps, I loved food too much to care. Maybe, I didn't care because I would never see any harmful side effects. That is until the day when I get diagnosed with diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Why would you sit and wait till it is too late?

Something to fight for?

My favorite show growing up was dragon ball Z. This show started my journey into health. The show focused on a fun loving, family man, friend, teacher, and fighter living on earth named Goku. Whats the catch? He is a saiyan humanoid slash monkey slash alien from another planet of the strongest fighters in the universe. It sounds corny now, but it was a very good show. What does this have to do with health? Well, I wanted to be Goku the strongest man in the universe lol. This got me into weight lifting, which got me into nutrition, which got me into being healthy. The point I am trying to make is not about a kids show, but what it takes to motivate a person to want to be healthy. On the show Goku did not have the same vanity as me. He trained hard in 100 times gravity for a week, so he could transform into a super saiyan(above pic). Why? To save his friends, family, and earth. In your life it could be a family member worried about your health. Whatever it is find your something, and start fighting for life.