America prides itself on the fact that it represents the best of the best in just about everything that it does. Yet, when we take a look around at the body shapes and body sizes in America, we should be absolutely dismayed, because American obesity as well as those who are just overweight, is at serious crisis levels, which impacts negatively not only the physical aspects of living in in a body that is out of shape, but also the quality of the life of those people that suffer from all the attendant disadvantages of not having a healthy body.
Look, it has to be said that the proximate reason why there are so many unhealthy bodies in America is that Americans do not eat the right foods and are content to eat way too much of foods that are overly processed, as well as being often nutritionally poor for them. Further to the point, a lot of Americans do not consistently exercise, which means that they don't work hard enough and consistently enough on exercising the most important muscle in their body which is their heart --- and in considering that it is the heart that delivers oxygen and nutrients to our cells, this is a fundamental mistake that definitely hurts our physical form.
While it is true that we should not prejudge a person by their physical characteristics, and that different environments, different genetics, and different backgrounds are going to make a difference in the body shape that we tend to obtain, it is though, up to us, as individuals as well as a society, to take responsibility for the decisions that we do make. This signifies that we need to do more to ensure that we are doing our fair part to maintain a healthy body or else we will have a strong tendency to devolve into having an unhealthy body.
Additionally, the very least that the governance of this nation could and should do would be to wake up from its collective lethargy, and recognize that for peer nations, America's health status does not hold up well to other Western nations; and that those then that are living lives in which their health has been compromised find thereby that their enjoyment of life has been negatively impacted, which should be properly seen as a priority that needs to be addressed for the better by the influence that governance, as well as other engaged organizations, can provide on behalf of the people.
Indeed, our mirrors and how our body reacts to our physical movement do not deceive us, whatsoever. We are, collectively, unhealthy, and it need not be that way, for America is the wealthiest nation in the world, and thereby needs to treat the disappointing poor health of its citizens, as a true crisis, that is worth resolving, because the direction that America is currently trending on, isn't healthy, nor is it written on stone, which is why we need those that would be our leaders, to actually lead, by fundamentally getting across to the American public, that a body that looks good and feels good, makes for a better long-term quality life.