According to the market research firm Marketdata Enterpises Inc., Americans spend $55 billion a year on weight loss. Be it in the form of diet books, exercise equipment, health club memberships, pre-packaged meals plans or the ever elusive "magic pill" millions of Americans are trying anything to live a healthy lifestyle. And most are missing the mark, even those who appear perfectly healthy.

Why you may ask? The answer is both simple and complex. The quick and easy answer is greed. The corporations that produce those over-the-counter appetite supresseants and metabolism enhancers like hoodia, benzoyl peroxide and green tea extract prey on the same charataristic that causes most isntances of obesity to begin with, sloth.

They know there is great profit to be made in selling the "magic pill" to those Americans who are convinced they can expel that spare tire without having to give up their precious drive-thru combos and channel surfing marathons. They also know (despite what they claim) that their products do not work; they've read the Mayo Clinic's comprehensive study just like I have.

Those consumers are a lost cause but there are millions more out there that have been proactive by exercising, counting calories and reducing saturated fats. Their resting heart rate is under 70, their triglycerides are within acceptable paramaters and their LDL's are under 150. Yet they can't seem to get rid of that fat roll. What gives?

This is the complex part. To write a blog post to explain all of the things wrong with our modern food system would actually constitute a book. Therefore I have collected some video information that may help you learn that truth that our government (yes, even Obama) have conspired to keep from us all in the name of the simple answer, greed.

The first is the movie The Future of Food. "The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade." If you are no