Do new eating habits strengthen us or destroy us? What we eat and why we eat certain foods plays a vital role in an individual's health. Most skeptics who don't watch what they eat are generally in poor health. We don't often think we have a relationship with food, and yet we do. Food has become a very important part of our lives, we use it for many things such as: pleasure, comfort, depression, socialization, etc. Since I don't eat the healthiest foods, I still wouldn't consider myself unhealthy. It is very difficult to stay healthy in today's economic environment. We are not able to pay high prices for healthy foods. If you go to a grocery store, you will see that most of the products are very expensive, while junk food is always on sale and affordable. While others don't have to spend as much in the store because they ate home-grown vegetables and meat. While keeping a food diary, my colleague was like this. She ate very healthily, her family grew their own vegetables and raised their own chickens for eggs and meat. People are becoming more and more obese and some restaurants now reward them for being overweight. There is a restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada called "The Heart Attack Grill" that reportedly offers a free meal to people weighing 350 pounds or more. This restaurant has a hospital theme, while promoting the restaurant they show people how poorly they eat. They say a 29-year-old man died at the Heart Attack Grill, adding the man ate there every day. Places like these can be a major cause of obesity and health problems. Yet when people have the choice of going for a big, juicy cheeseburger or going home and eating a salad, most people will choose the juicy burger. In the middle of the paper, money. Food and money used for events like these could be used for people in need, like the homeless, or donated to charity. I understand that some people who hold eating competitions do it for fun. Instead of winning large sums of money and prizes, they could use the eating competitions for certain causes. Overall, we as a people are starting to not care about what we eat. In today's economy, families are turning to unhealthy junk food and frozen dinners. Rather than buying fresh produce, because firstly, they are expensive, and secondly, if you have a busy working family, they won't last as long and therefore may go bad in the refrigerator. We need to use the competition money to boost our economy so people can buy more fresh produce. Rather than giving money to the winners of an eating competition or asking them to enter competitions for different causes.