| Cause and effect | | | | most of us) no horses to saddle up and we don't need |
| For the most part here in America we have the same | | | | to go out and collect the eggs to begin with. After we |
| diet we did 100 years ago. We consume the same | | | | eat our eggs and toast, most of us take less than fifty |
| amount of calories, carbohydrates, protein, etc. The | | | | steps to our car where we just sit there until we get |
| main difference between now and then is 100 years | | | | to work. After we are at work, the majority of us |
| ago you didn't just hop in your car and run to the Mc | | | | either sit all day or stand in one place all day; yet we |
| Donald's drive-thru. As a matter of fact getting any | | | | consume the same amount of calories we did back |
| where required a lot of work 100 years ago. Feeding | | | | then. Do you think there was any need to exercise |
| and brushing your horse before you saddle it, then | | | | back then? Not when your regular daily duties included |
| hooking it up the wagon. And before you even leave | | | | chopping wood for hours or bailing hay with your bare |
| for the day you had to milk the cows and collect eggs | | | | hands for most of the day. |
| from the chickens. I won't go into much more detail but | | | | The few Americans that are in shape today are those |
| what I am trying to explain is that the trivial things we | | | | who exercise to make up for the excess of calories. |
| do daily would have burned hundreds or thousands of | | | | Is it a sacrifice to take a little time out of the day to |
| calories daily back then yet, our diet and appetite are | | | | actually get some exercise? I don't think so, especially |
| basically the same. | | | | when we get done with a long hard day of sitting we |
| We consume large amounts of white flour. It is in | | | | come home to sit some more while we watch TV. |
| everything from bread and crackers to pasta and | | | | The cause of eating way too many calories leads to |
| cereal. It converts to energy immediately in the body | | | | the effect of being over-weight. Being over-weight |
| and if not used it gets stored on as fat. This worked | | | | leads to varies health problems. The cause of having |
| out 100 years ago but now after we eat our eggs and | | | | health problems leads to the effect of a shorter life. |
| toast for breakfast, there are no cows to milk (for | | | | Does this make sense to anyone? |