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It seems that technology has not only taken over how we live our daily lives, but it also has taken over our capability to entertain ourselves. If you talk to older generations about their children and their hobbies and activities, they would have to drag their children inside since they would spend all outside. Now parents are ripping the television remotes from their kids, tossing the cellphones in the drawers and doing everything in their power to get their children active, and the problem that keeps getting in the way but can’t seem to avoid is technology and the constant need to be around or interacting with it. That is what this article talks about, the average American spends apparently over five hours just on the television and that doesn’t include cellphones, laptops and other devices we have come up with. This article had me wondering when and why we become so dependent off technology that is has made us lazy. Instead of going to the football game people would rather watch it at home or instead of playing outside kids would rather be playing online with their friends from completely different houses! This is a big issue as to why Americans are inactive and lazy citizens which plays a huge roll in someone’s capability to maintain their own health and weight.  I enjoyed this article because it put some perspective on the issues that we are allowing our children and ourselves to be absorbed by these small devices that we don’t even seem to see the damage it is cause, which honestly is quite terrifying for people who continue to abuse it.  America is not the only country that is struggling with Obesity, but it seems to be one of the only powerful countries that fears for the capability of being able to protect itself. We have the money, the weapons and the population for a powerful military to protect its country but what happens if the Obesity rate continues to rise and citizens continue to care less and less about their health and their body weight, this peer reviewed journal article challenges the question of will America be able to fight for themselves if they can longer actually fight. Obesity is a debilitating disease it takes away so much of your capability to function and live on your own but without military we are unsafe and any country of it’s choosing could attack and invade and if we were all, or at least most of us were overweight and obese we would never be able to protect ourselves. How are we supposed to prevent that though? Big changes would need to be made to the that nation to prevent something as big as that from occurring to our citizens. Both of these articles showed me an extreme amount of concern for the health of our country. The both point out the constant increase in obesity and the affect it is having on our citizens and on our future decisions we make for this country. I do believe Gagnon and Hinkley share the same growing concern with this epidemic.