National Eating Disorder?!

Complete Overdose in Action!!!!!

Is there a National Eating Disorder rampant in the United States? It depends on what you consider a "disorder." An eating disorder could mean that all the food in a meal is piled on a table in a disorderly manner. In this case, I believe there is an eating disorder. If you look at an example like, let's say, The Billiard House, one will notice that there is something extensively wrong with the amount of food there is on the table. All the bowls can't even fit on the table! As a former waiter at this "fine" dining establishment, I saw first-hand the disorder that exists(or the order that doesn't exist) when the entire dining room gets full. Bowls dropped, food on the floor, drinks spilled, people slipping, customers hurling all over the table, bowel movements every 3 minutes; all this leads to the most disorderly restaurant on the planet (pretty much). Does this sound like an eating disorder? Yes.

Taken less literally, the meaning of an eating disorder could also mean the complete indulgement of Americans in unhealthy foods. The point is that we, as a country, eat the most and the worst, but can we really be blamed for this so-called "disorder"? Obviously, eating unhealthily has become a part of our culture, or maybe it is our culture. So can we really blame ourselves? As descendants of the "robber barons" and capitalist super-hogs of the Gilded Age in early 20th century America, is it our fault that we have evolved into micro-entrepreneurs in everything we do? We have evolved as the Homo Americanus into people who desire the most for the least: this just happens to include unhealthy eating. Perhaps this was in the cards for us from the beginning. Maybe we were predestined by God himself to live and eat this way. Whether you choose to believe in Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, or you are a devout Christian, I just proved to you (with tons of speculation!) that we don't have an eating disorder: we have a "roll" to ful"fill." (Nice pun, I know =])

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