Speech My mother has been watching the TV programme 'You are what you eat', and how desperately right that statement is. In today's society our generation of

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Francis Runcieman         SMH                23/02/06        

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My mother has been watching the TV programme ‘You are what you eat’, and how desperately right that statement is. In today’s society our generation of children are the unhealthiest yet. With obesity and diabetes rates soaring, The population is manipulated into buying products which, despite what they say, are very unhealthy for you. Various computer consoles and daytime television of hundreds of channels mind numb everybody, hours upon hours of cartoons. For adults the pressure of work has superseded the priority of cooking good food which adds a potential 12 years onto a human life. So who do they turn to? McDonalds and take- aways full of sugar and salt which cause heart attacks, strokes and other life threatening conditions. When we buy these products we are donating to a company which kills and damages hundreds of thousands of people a year. The man behind the programme ‘Super size me’ ate nothing but McDonald products for a month. He became clinically depressed, clinically obese and his doctor said if he were to carry one he would die. Even more sinister, the product ‘Happy Meal’ which is aimed at children! Do children have a choice? No, they eat what their manipulated parents tell them to eat, and even worse the children’s innocent minds are brainwashed into thinking that this food is healthy for them. This food ‘healthy’? That is the worst thing, it looks healthy, that you and family are conned into thinking that it is healthy by clever advertising. Fine, if you think that food which destroys your body, your mind and which will continue to poison the world is still good for go ahead.  But let me leave you with this thought. People who are addicted to junk food have exactly the same brain wave patterns as those of heroin addicts, yes heroin addicts. A ‘Big Mac’ stimulates the brain exactly the same as heroin does, is that not enough? Then listen to this: A child in the UK ate a ‘Big Mac’ and because his body could not digest it at all it turned into faeces inside his intestines, so his body got rid of it through his mouth. That’s obscene. People are starving to death in the world and he’s throwing up faeces. That’s wrong! So what are we going to do about it as a nation? And what are you going to do about it as an individual?

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        It is very hard to resist the bombardment of media advertisement, but there are ways around this dilemma. If you want to continue this pampered  and seemingly harmless existence then stop listening to this speech and continue to being a burden on society and on the NHS and die a horrible and slow death. There are five golden rules which you can follow and I assure you they will make you live longer, they will make you happier which will aid in your social, mental and physical health. But over all they will make you a better healthier person.. The golden ...

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