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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Last Night
All my life I have been told to eat right and exercise. Eating fruits, vegetables, and basically non-fat foods is the best way to go in order to be healthy. Also, having or being physically active helps along the way. With all this in mind, we would not have bad skin, have health issues, or even gain weight. However, why is it that with all this in mind, we still eat like horrible pigs and are not in the best physical shape? We eat a lot of candy, chips, soda, and the list goes on. We know what we are doing to ourselves but we keep at it. Is there a reasonable explanation for it? Not really because I do not even realize I am doing it until someone points it out to me. Like right now, I just finished drinking a can of soda and eating some sour cream and onion ruffles and I feel great and satisfied. I am not worrying about it. Not right now at least.
Maybe in the back of our heads we know that we should not but it will not stop us. It is probably like the little voice in our heads that does not get the best of us. We are all surrounded by it and do not think too much of the consequences until it actually happens. When do we know when to stop? How are we supposed to know? Why even stop? The answer is we just do not. We only worry about it when we see commercials or magazines and notice the pictures of the people we try to look like and that is when we take a look at ourselves. But we should not have to worry about it so much, we are just being ourselves and if eating makes us happy, then why not eat what we want and not pay so much attention to it. I guess that is just how much take the media plays in our lives and sometimes, we let it get to us but we should be able to control how far it goes in our lives.
The Aftertaste of Restaurants
Olive Garden, Friday’s, Chili’s, Claim Jumper, Lucille’s BBQ House, Black Angus, Applebee’s, Bj’s, The Cheesecake Factory, The Elephant Bar, Red Lobster, The Soup Plantation, The Islands, are all many of the greatest restaurants we have always gone to. They all are pretty expensive but yet the food there is unforgettable; it just makes us want to go back twice. But why do we? We are all willing to take our chances and eat there but we do not even know why. We know that we get our money’s worth but is it really. Most of the time, we get great customer service but what about the other times? Or what happens if the food is not so great from what we expect it to be just because of how it looks. We all are taking a pretty big chance when going to these restaurants and just because we might get recommended to go there does not mean we all have the same taste. Have you ever noticed how the restaurant may be lonely at times but yet the hostess makes us wait? What is up with that, if there are free tables why not just sit us down; it only makes us less hungry to have to sit and wait some more to eat. Even when we are waiting they always try to offer us some appetizers or drinks. For example, I went to the Olive Garden the other day and they had us waiting for seats for about an hour. While we were waiting the bartender was mixing drinks and everyone was buying something to drink. It is like they do this on purpose. Do they just want us to wait? Do they just want us to spend our money first to see if we are good enough to eat?
If you really think about it, it really is not that worth it to go out and eat. It may seem great because of the food, but if you think about it look at everything else you are putting up with. But yet we always go back.
Sex Sells
If you were to turn on the television, what would be the first thing you see? Basically commercials, we always see what is the next big thing or what we should be eating, or what we should look like. Even if we tell ourselves “we don’t look at the ads” or “they don’t affect us”, how are we suppose to know, it has been around all our lives that we do not realize it contributes to our every moves. Advertisement sells with things that appeal to us; we take it very serious.
For instance, ads inform us mainly on foods. Fast food restaurants like Carl’s Junior uses sex to sell. On every commercial they either have very attractive women or men eating there hamburgers trying to make us see that hot and skinny people eat fast foods so we should too. They even had Paris Hilton washing a car while eating a superstar, how influential is that? If you think about it, if she was on an ad for salads and the commercial was telling the audience “Look at me after eating all them salads”. What would the audience start doing after seeing that? Exactly, people would all start diets and think that that would be Paris Hilton’s secret of slimming down. It is the same effect with the superstar; we see her eating it or her not worrying about gaining weight so we too do not even worry about eating it either. We all think if they can do it then we can do it too.
Sex sells and it really does matter how and what you look like when appearing to the public. These things just end up being very popular to the people. But how many commercials or ads do you ever see where an attractive person is eating organic foods? Or fruits? The list goes on but you rarely ever see a hot person advertising those types of foods; it is not that common.
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