Real Answers For Tough Times
by Mikayla Kayne
Junk Food, Junk Media, Junk Life?
The drive to get Americans healthy is in full swing, from Michelle Obama’s initiatives for kids, to mini Whole Foods stores opening in urban centers. Everywhere you turn, junk food is under attack, and sugar is public enemy number one. Even McDonald’s is on the bandwagon with yogurt smoothies, oatmeal and fruit. Are we getting the message? Like grandma used to say, “Garbage in, garbage out,” slowly, our generation is realizing that what we consume matters.
People who make the switch to whole, raw, organic, nonGMO, pesticidefree, dyefree, etc. etc. can not only eliminate serious health issues, but enjoy the richer tastes and added benefits of healthy eating. On every channel and strung throughout your social media newsfeed, you find advertisements for healthy things vitamins, glutenfree home delivery boxes, patches, exercise programs and gym memberships. The pressure from society, government, and media is to make healthy physical choices, and the benefits are obvious.
However, there is no national initiative to clean up our media diets. There is no governmentled campaign to protect our kids from being oversexualized or exposed to horror shows and violence. Your social media newsfeed isn’t filled with products to help you eliminate explicit lyrics, filter satanic references, or blot out gore and violence. There is no societal pressure to avoid unhealthy media choices, in fact, the pressure is to make increasingly worse ones.
There is no end to the smorgasbord of gruesome, violent, sexual, deviant, and outright satanic
programming being piped into our hands and homes through television, radio, and online services. Shows, music lyrics, and even commercials aimed at literally every age group have gone far beyond inappropriate and have crossed into outright abuse. It is actually abusive to expose minors to the types of shows that are considered normal today, and to subject them to the explicit lyrics and images found in secular music. The word “junk” isn’t nearly a strong enough word to describe the level of filth being eagerly consumed by Americans in 2016. What is streaming into our lives is outright demonic.