Health Craze?

Lately it seems everywhere you go there are "alternative options". For example you're walking through the grocery store looking at produce, you're feeling pretty dang good about yourself for just pulling yourself away from the cookie and chip aisle long enough to grab some bananas. Success! You've gotten something healthy to balance out the rest of the junk food in your cart, then just as you're rounding the corner you notice the organic foods section. This is like the healthy of healthy! But it costs so much more. So do you go with the healthy bananas, or the super healthy organic bananas?

Upon leaving the grocery store still upset about the prices of the organic bananas (if there's less done to the product making it more healthy then why do they charge twice the price?), you hit up a fast food restaurant for a quick dinner fix. You look at the menu and try to decide between the nuggets or the double cheeseburger, but then haunting you on the next menu panel over is the "healthy choice!" panel filled with milks, juices, salads and fruit.

After being guilted into the salad and milk option you head home and get ready to pop in a movie after a long day. Well what's a movie without popcorn, right? You open the cupboard to grab the salty treat pop it in the microwave and head to the dvd shelf to pick one out. There in plain sight you see your old work out video you bought a few months ago, still wrapped in plastic waiting for you to fulfill that promise to yourself. 

You reluctantly head back to the microwave and toss aside the bag popcorn so that it doesn't distract you while starting your routine.

Sound familiar? Lately Many Americans are being heavily influenced by the media to count their carbs, calories and snacks during the day. There's just about every type of diet imaginable out there. Health in America is hitting an all time high. Suddenly the price of health food has sky rocketed, and newer healthier options are being brought out all the time. People are becoming more self aware of their health and strive to better themselves. It only seems natural that this nationwide epidemic will continue to spread, and more and more healthy foods will become readily available to one and to all.