To eat healthy, or not eat healthy....

OK readers, don't get too frazzled or weirded out by the headline. Because lets be honest, for those of you that know me, knows that I love food more than life and more specifically I wish I could eat junk food everyday and stay healthy as an Ox and never get fat. Too bad dreams aren't reality :)
Any-who, what I really want to talk about today is based on an article I read that talks about a combination of my two favorite things: Food and the Movies!
The article discusses how the chairman of Sony Pictures is trying to enforce healthier food options in movie theaters. I give the guy a lot of credit because we live in the fattest country ever and the movies have become one of the few places where its socially acceptable to just shove piles of food into your mouth all at once. And no one cares. I kind of love that fact. Especially because its dark and everyone has the movie to be pre-occupied with so no one is really looking around watching people shove mass amounts of junk food into their mouths like human garbage disposals. (And if you are watching...seriously? stop being creepy).
So the article discusses how it would be great if there could be healthier options such as veggie sticks with low-fat dressing to dip in. Or fruit options. The Sony chairman seems to think that if there are healthier options available, that people would be likely to pick them. However I'm not so sure I agree.
It's true that although we are the fattest country, we also seem to be really gung-ho about staying in shape. There are so many get-healthy and fit gimmicks out there that its weird how people are still so heavy.
For now though, its definitely going to be a while before anyone sees anything resembling vegetables pr fruit in their local movie theater establishments. One step that movie theaters are taking, being enforced by the Sony chairman, is the calorie counts of all snack foods being visible on the menu boards, in the hopes that people realize how fattening the food is and hopefully pick the healthier options.
I don't know about anyone else, but seeing those calorie counts on stuff in restaurants only shocks me for like a minute...and then I still get whatever food I was going to get anyway. Woops. One thing that did gross me out though was the little factoid (which can be found in the article) that states how a large buttered popcorn has the calorie equivalent of 6 Mcdonalds hamburgers. EW. How nasty is that! I'm shuddering a little.
So there you have it folks. The future of movie snacks is on the way! If you want to read the full article you can click right here and read it for yourselves.
Now I don't want everyone to get too nervous. I seriously doubt that anything remotely healthy will be in local theaters any time soon. Like the article mentions, popcorn, soda and the movies have been a threesome for a ridiculously long time. And like I mentioned before, we are the fattest country around. Those two factors combined means that everyone can continue shoving their beloved popcorn in mass amounts into their faces in peace. Enjoy!