Chewing (out) The Fat(so)

Obesity's on the rise
Experts say;
And the finger of blame
Is pointed your way.

Diabetes, also on the rise,
Really should come
As no surprise;
When every meal
Is super-sized,
And the weight migrates,
Right to your thighs.

Follow what the experts say,
Staying active,
Is the only way.
The upper class benefit from it;
One requires means, just to stay fit.
Education failed the poor,
You get a gym class
And nothing more,
Than a fat ass;
Buying groceries,
At your, local convenience store.

Wait a minute!
Fat, skinny or whatever
There is something,
We can all do together!
Place the blame,
Where blame is due,
Keeping in mind,
Blame's no good for you.

We live in a society
Where food comes prepared;
 Media says, if only you compared,
The calories on this label or on that
Then just maybe, you wouldn't be fat!
 But they let industry off the hook,
Because its industry money that they took!

If Health Canada really cared,
We'd have basic ingredients,
Toxic additives would not be spared;
And hidden items would all be bared.                                            
Nobody's talking about the push for    
Preservative market shares,
Nobody's trying to expose,
food mogul fortune heirs;
Instead the public becomes, the big fat target
While industry poisons your
Supermarket.


If the lame duck FDA
So much as dared,
Strict regulation and enforcement;
Instead of food industry endorsement;
All these years, such a lack of standard,
By the very ones, to whom they've pandered;
While fat people,
Like minorities are slandered;            
Then maybe we wouldn't see
Such egregious manipulation
Of the big three!

Sugar, Salt and Fat,
Taken together,
Hit you like crack.
Yet Medical experts
Seem to pull back;
The food industry
Are aware of these facts,
And is glad to exploit you,
Like the Big Mac.

The big three,
May be under a different name,
In a multiple dose,
But it's all the same.
Sugar can be glucose/fructose
Or even dextrose,
Artificial sweetener
Can be aspartame or sucralose.
Fats can be labeled hydrogenated oil;
Clog your arteries and your heart will spoil.
Salt can be:
Autolyzed / hydrolyzed - plant protein
Or natural flavor; flowing from the MSG gene.                                  

These ingredients are unnatural as can be,
And rearrange our brain chemistry!

Let's say you had a down day,
Would you fancy an apple
Over a vanilla latte?
Chances are,
The answer is no.
Because processed food
Will give you a turbo,
Boost like a meal;
No fruit or veggie
Has such quick appeal!

It's not physical activity
That only has to change,
The pathways in our brains
Must rearrange.
Addiction uses visual fuel,
So our brain plays our body for a fool.
Fruits and veggies
Need the advertising tool,
So a healthy trap will ensnare;
Otherwise a salad just won't  compare.
To the all pervasive, fat laden,
Salty, sugary fare.

The big 3 three ingredients                                                    
 In their basic form
Can be the spice of life,
When not derived from corn.