America the lazy

Obesity is a big problem in America. \nOkay, that was a horrible pun and I'm sorry, but it is really a big, fat problem. In a country where popular food is unhealthy and plentiful, being overweight is understandable. But the problem does not lie solely in the food we eat, but rather the ease in which it is obtained. \nWhen the weather is cold and the roads are slick, nothing is safer than grabbing a Big Mac from the handy drive-thru window to avoid slipping in the parking lot. Despite this safety feature, the drive-thru windows are for people who are just plain lazy. Is it too exhausting to walk inside the place? Heck, fast food joints might as well install a third drive up window where a registered nurse can resuscitate patrons with a heart defibrillator after their post-burger cardiac arrest. Would you like a McQuadruple Bypass with that? I didn't think so.\nNothing could be more American than the all-you-can-eat buffet. The "Table Reserved" card handed out at the cash register is like the golden ticket in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Once this is given to patrons, they are free to cram more than frat boys during finals week. Don't get me wrong, I love buffets; I just think people should think twice before loading a plate full of General Tso's chicken and inhaling it like a pig at the trough. Maybe if buffets put food items a couple hundred feet away from each other, people would have to walk a greater distance to get their meals.\nPizza delivery is the long time champion of laziness. Rather than get in a car, drive to the store and pick up some groceries, pizza delivery streamlines the process by bringing the food to the customer in a short amount of time. Oh how we can't wait for our pizzas to arrive while we sit staring at the clock like drug addicts, not knowing when we'll get our next fix. Pizza delivery is the only time where most of us actually welcome oil-leaking, rusty, pitted out, bondo-enhanced vehicles into our driveways. The next time you order a few square feet of pizza, think about what you're \ngetting into.\nOne of the lesser known evils of obesity may surprise you. Though they are often veiled in cuteness, Girl Scouts provide Americans with an almost unending supply of cookies. Who can resist a little girl selling cookies, hoping to win that trip to Washington D.C.? I guess we really can't blame the Girl Scouts though. When was the last time you followed the recommended serving size on a box of thin mints?\nThese are just a few of the conveniences that we have invented in order to obtain food. We can sit around blaming others for our being out of shape, but the blame ultimately lies in ourselves and our decisions. It might be easy to point the finger at Ronald McDonald and call foul, but Ronald doesn't make us eat his food. He can bribe us with giant-sized drinks and burgers, but deep down inside, we make the final decision. While it could be argued that pigging out on junk food is the American thing to do, hopefully the American thing to do doesn't include massive heart attacks.