Replies to '03/15 Starving for Perfection'

I am a woman that lives in america and everyday i watch the same shows, commercials, movies, look at the same magazines that you do, etc, etc, etc. and I do not have any desire to starve myself to the point where I have to be worried about my health.  Society attempts to persuade and make you conform to certain things everyday.  If you watch a NFL football game, their is about 3 beer commercials on every time-out, are you also an alcoholic? Everybody in this world has got a problem.  In america we will use anything that sells and attempt to make society to conform to it.  Just like sex, violence and drugs...they sell.  We are now finding out that they create more jobs...an alcoholic or anorexic needs a therapist.  If you want to make a difference in america, voting isn't the answer. Talk to your children, other women, men, anybody that you feel is falling into the traps of our today's society.  The cycle needs to be broken before any changes can occur, this will come from the public and what we stand for, not from what any politician can or will do for us.  If you want to make a difference for your children, your grandchildren and so on, the change needs to come from society, not from the health care system.  If you had cancer you wouldn't just take some Advil for the pain, you would treat it with chemotherapy and whatever else you thought would get rid of the disease completely.  If we just changed the health care system in america we would only be treating the pain, not the root cause of the problem.  With that said, the problem would still exist and people would be wanting something else from america cause everyone has a problem.  We need to start being thankful that we have food...that we have the chance to choose whether or not we want to eat or not rather than taking everything to the extreme because many (children) around the world are dying because they don't have the choice.  Put your faith in God, not in today's society when it comes to right and wrong.