I put on my Adidas, headed out the door, As I pictured myself eatin more and more.

Investing in our future is tough. It takes time. Effort. Oh yeah, and some money too. We may not see results tomorrow, but persistence will pay off. When I first read this, I thought the NYC Department of Health was on to something. It's hard to eat healthy when you got two dollars in your pocket. One tropical fantasy, a dollar sandwich, a bag of Utz, and a Oatmeal Cream. Tropical is a fruit right?

Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association released data from a thirty year study that shows poverty is one of the greatest risk factors for childhood obesity. Skipping breakfast and a heavy reliance on calories from sugar were cited as major contributors. Can I get some ketchup on my bacon-egg-n-cheese? That's another vegetable.

Access to healthy, comparably priced food options are few to nil in the Bronx. Take a walk. So, what is the city looking at doing? Fighting the "underground...segment of society" that bombs the trains. Graffiti. Twenty-five million dollars. That's one thousand times one thousand times twenty-five.

Scapegoat. The underworld as the enemy. Hip-Hop. Diabetes will not only slowly kill us, it will eat away our valuable health care dollars. Geriatric diseases are becoming pediatric diseases. Insulin, dialysis, hacked limbs, blindness will all soon be commonplace. Unfortunately, diabetes is an insidious disease, slowly altering your physiology. I need my solution now. Right now.

Spending money now on what matters will pay dividends in the future. An investment. We're already spending billions.

Fat Boys: Crushin' (1987): http://rapidshare.de/files/21350730/crush_fb_1987.rar.html
How many kiddies know what a thousand times one million is?