Weight loss plan, Diet plan - Vice Busting Diet Program: Promoting Medifast

You've heard World Health Day is April 7th, or maybe you haven't.

Not many people may because news services may just make this a quick mention that isn't given much airtime or print space. But this blogger's purpose is to try to wake up the world to the real threat of mankind (no, it's not global warming!). That threat is our food supply.

How many people are there on the Earth? How much food is needed to feed them? If you said there isn't a problem with enough food, it's getting the food to people who don't have access to it, then you're only partially right. The problem goes much further than just not getting food to those who need it. You don't see Coca-Cola having a problem getting their product into third-world countries - ok, other than a few political hurdles. You also see a rise in tooth decay, overweight citizens, and an entire gamut of health problems show up within 1 year of soft drink introduction in these countries. Same goes for fast food restaurants (names you know, obviously!)

The food supply is not the issue. The quality of foods and our water supply is the issue. Health problems can be traced to a poor diet - one that is void of fruits and vegetables and filled with high-fructose corn syrup-filled products and fatty foods and processed foods and everything else that's not fruits and vegetables. Even fruits and vegetables are seeing a compromise to their quality, due to poor soil conditions, environmental pollutants, and probably even competition to turn out an inexpensive product so consumers won't be deterred from purchasing them.

So while we have the ability to feed the world - and some reports say many times over every day - we do not have the proper supply of nutrient-rich food to supply the entire population on Earth. Think of the numbers of fruits and vegetables that have to be available everyday if every citizen on Earth was to consume just 5 servings per day - that would be something close to 20 Billion pieces of fruit or vegetables? If you haven't seen this world clock that shows some interesting figures about the Earth's population, check it out.

It's time to wake up and realize that each person's diet choices each day is important to the future health of our planet. Choose fruits and vegetables more often and more quality fruits and vegetables will show up (eventually). Keep choosing fast foods and soft drinks and those companies will keep making them and keep counting their money while we all get sicker. It's the law of supply and demand. A healthy diet demands healthy foods, and healthy foods will become more predominant than unhealthy ones. The choice is yours, it's ours. The future health of our planet depends on all of us and our choices.

If you need to make a transition to a healthier lifestyle, there are some things you can do to get moving in that direction. If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed. Do this and add more fruits and vegetables to your diet and help support a healthy planet.