Are TV Dinners Made in China?

I have to confess that after I wrote my first ever blog entry, I sat down, turned on the television and ate a TV dinner. :D Without even turning the channel, what was on but a most interesting news piece about globesity in China. China, as you may know, is the world's most populous country and it has the world's fastest growing economy. One of the many growing pains that the country is experiencing is the rate at which people are becoming overweight. China's obesity has doubled in the last decade! "Fat camps" are popping up for children all over the country as officals realize what a huge strain this will put on their already overtaxed society and scramble to nip it in the bud.

One of the reasons that makes China unique in this situation is their one-child policy. Many of these kids get home from school and sit in front of the tv all day or play video games, much like a lot of westernized children. But they have no one to fight over the controllers with. Nobody to chase around the dining room table, or play tag with, or practice their wrestling moves on. Do you remember how much exercise you got beating up your kid siblings? I sure do. Damn maybe that's why I was so finny for all those years (fatskinny. not a typo. fact)

The junior diet camps are created out of necessity to get those youngsters into shape (yes round is a shape , but not the ideal one) and avoid surpassing the US as the World's Fattest Nation. As I look down at my Swanson dinner in shame, I push the breaded fried turkey soaked in gravy around my plate and a tear fell from my eye. Nah, just kidding. I ate it all up, including the brownie (left the green beans tho....ewwwww) and licked my lips. It's the 80/20 rule people!!! More on that next time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB5sz576cnM&feature=player_embedded