Why don't we take action to help us? What's wrong that people don't use common sense?

Question

We get medical exams about every 3 yrs at the company where I work( the medical van.) . they check our hearing/weight/bloodpressure/and take a breathing test.
All due to the dusty conditions there. I was told that of the 600 or so plants this company exams nation wide that ours has the highest blood pressure average of them all.
Our racial mixture is 60%black and over 60% of them have high blood pressure. Practually all of them over 30.
A majority of the whites are on blood pressure watch or medicine.
We're southern and it;s the food, obesity and lots of greesy foods such as sauguage ., and fast foods.
So with all of the information available about obesity and high blood pressure why are we so hard headed.
We repair our car or truck and keep it maintained why not our own personal vehical the human body?

Answer 1

Comes down to this all people don't maintain there Cars and trucks either so when engine dies The whole engine has to be replaced We can't do that with humans yet but have come a far cry from 20 years ago.when people did not live from heart transplants.
If people could from day 1 teach there children to eat well Vegetable just a little meats very little sweets it would help a little but only if we were more active took care of our bodies when things first occurred we could be a lot longer in this world.