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\"\"<\/a>He is a brown-skinned visitor from Indonesia. He has a slight build, one you would expect from an Asian.\u00a0 Adi came to America to attend MIT; he has a knack for programming. Adi told Linda, his new friend from Boston, that he has never seen anything like it. \u201cIn my country, wealthy people are fat and poor people are skinny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adi observed rich and very thin urbanites spending an enormous amount of time driving to their personal trainers and paying for bottled water when water runs freely from every tap.\u00a0 And he couldn\u2019t understand how the poorest citizens are so overweight.<\/p>\n

Starvation was eliminated in the U.S. in the sixties, with a green revolution that provided enough food for our population with plenty to spare. Yet in the 50+ years of abundance, obesity, diabetes and hypertension became the new problem.<\/p>\n

Adi\u2019s friend Linda has her own opinion on \u201cwhy the disconnect?\u201d It only took her one word to explain: Pop. She blames soda pop with its empty calories taking the place of life-giving water.<\/p>\n

Sure, that\u2019s part of it; along with a host of other valid reasons for unhealthy eating habits. But the wonder is; Adi was able to immediately recognize a problem that many of us, simply glaze over.<\/p>\n

What can we do to help another help themselves when it comes to diet and healthy habits?\u00a0 With a long list of causes to support, it\u2019s not likely that over-nutrition will get much attention. It\u2019s another problem we\u2019ll \u201ctsk, tsk\u201d about. We\u2019ll feel a twinge of guilt and forget about it until the next time we\u2019re mildly disgusted by a grossly overweight homeless woman shaking an empty Starbucks cup at us, asking for spare change.<\/p>\n

Cut yourself some slack. Every problem is not yours to solve.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not yours to walk away from either. Keep the problem of healthy choices on your prayer list. God hears our petitions and is working with victims to break free from their self-destructive cycle.\u00a0 With prayer, you can take it all on.<\/p>\n

-Prayables<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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