Steve, your comment reminds me about an episode of 'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition' I watched with my mom a few years back. This was before I was into fitness and bodybuilding but I still liked the show because it seemed to have a good message, the trainer was ripped and looked good and at the end the people would be healthy and happier (usually down a few 100 lbs too). Anyways, on this one particular episode I remember this guy who had a family and when he started to lose weight, his wife started complaining and not supporting him (yelling at him, bringing home junk food anyways e.t.c.). So the guy made the decision to move out and leave his family behind in order to lose weight.

Then after he did this he lost his job or switched careers and was basically penniless as he was losing weight. The trainer was really nice and offered him a place to stay back in Arizona where he lived but the guy declined and for a month or two, lived out of car, did workouts in the parking lot and budgeted his remaining money buying healthy foods and still trying his hardest to keeping with his program. I remember the camera man asking him how he was and the guy replied that he was doing OK and that even though he was low on money he could still afford to eat healthy and do his best to lose weight. Pretty sure at the end of the show, the guy still didn't lose all the weight he had planned on losing but he was still a few hundred pounds down and went through the skin removal surgery fine. Pretty good for what the poor guy had to go through, but I think it goes to show that you can really eat healthy even if you are tight on money. Obviously, this was a special case but you can save up some money from buying 2 oreo boxes and buy a bag of oranges instead I would think...

Just had a test today on what you said basically Natenator and it is true, no denying that! As 'young adult' (whatever society calls 18-20 year olds now these days) it is very apparent that lots of kids and teens food choices are very dependent on what their parents bring home to eat. I've been with the same bunch of peers from elementary school to high school and now even some at university and the kids that started out with the unhealthy choices did not change one bit, in fact it got worse. It's a problem not only for the lower class but for the medium and even the upper class as well. I believe things will really start changing when parents finally start adding good choices and educating their children on healthful choices to eat and bring to school.

What really pisses me off even more than than this is the fact that only now have the media started picking up on exercise. It's so stupid how in schools they make these kids do 'beep tests' and other stupid routines to test how fast certain kids can run and who is more flexible, blah blah blah... Just make exercise fun for god's sake! People wonder why kids don't participate in their school phys. ed classes and it's because their physical activity effing sucks!! Bring back tag and dodgeball and soccer instead of teaching kids about what zone your heart rate should be in when doing these stupid beep tests. I guarantee that kids will be more active inside and outside school when the curriculum will finally change. I don't know, maybe it's just my bad experience, hopefully it's a lot better wherever you guys are...

When I have the time I'll give the movie a shot Steve!

-Primal