Fast Food And Obesity

The Fast Food and Childhood Obesity article discuss how fast food has contributed for the weight gained by childrens. According to the article Americans are eating out more, which has influenced on the children gaining weight, but the weight gained by children are significantly weight from fast food calories. Childrens from twelve to nineteen years old are more likely to eat fast food and the reason for that could be because at this age they get influenced more by what they see on tv, commercial and their parents do not have a lot of control on what their children's eat. This article states encourage people to their meals at home because home cooked food tends to be smaller and healthier. I can use this article to help with my research paper

One out of every four Americans stop by to eat fast food daily. Many people may not know this, but you would have to walk seven straight hours to burn off a super sized Coke, fry, and Big Mac. Sixty percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese. Did you also know that some fast food restaurants sell more toys than Toys-R-Us? Fast food restaurants contribute to obesity in America by promoting time-saving eating options, using celebrities to promote their products, and encouraging children to eat unhealthy food through clever marketing.

As of 2016 there is over 50,000 fast food restaurants across the world. Cheeseburgers and fries may sound like a delicious meal, however the ingredients put into the food make it unhealthy for the lives of young people. Due to the poor food choices Americans started making and lack of education of health, the lifestyles of people has made a terrible impact in this generation. During the 70s, health diseases and disorders were mostly caused by inherited genes, whereas today it is due to people consuming a lot of calories. Because of the new technology that has been created, the amount of exercise has dropped significantly, leading to the increase in sizes of Americans. People should want to help others to ensure that the future changes for the health of the next generation or else the problem of obesity will never be fixed. To fix the problem of obesity, it’s up to 18 to 26 year olds to change the ways of how people eat and the personal choices made in one’s life. Millennials should take personal responsibility to lower the risks of obesity epidemic and obesity related diseases in addition to the government pushing toward healthier choices to educate and improve the lifestyle of the future generations.

Obesity within adults is a prevalent problem in the United States, with over 51% of all adults suffering from obesity by the year 2030 (Joyner et al. 217). Obesity, or the state of being excessively overweight, is sometimes a result from what is known as food addiction. Much like an addiction to a substance, to be addicted to food is to constantly crave a certain food item (Joyner et al. 217). Obesity and food addiction tend to coincide with each other. That coexistence is shown primarily in the documentary Super Size Me, in which director Morgan Spurlock focuses on the way fast food and food addiction affect the human body.

With the increase of fast food consumption and the growing rate of obesity, Americans are arguing if those who consume fast food products have only themselves to blame or the fast food companies for the growing rate of obesity and its health problems. The health of Americans has changed for the worse since the 70’s. The size of the food portions has increased and Americans are exercising less. This is evident in Americans 18-26 years old. These are the college kids who are away from home, working on their higher education and possibly a job at the same time, these college kids are too busy with all the work that needs to get done that these young adults don’t have time to cook themselves a home-cooked meal so they end up eating fast food meals. These

Fast food, in today’s society, has become a major part of individuals’ lives. For it’s easy, quick and cheap food. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically it is referred to as low quality, prepackaged foods that have little preparation time. Through further research of fast food restaurants and their role in the obesity epidemic in America, it lead to further conclusions on the need for changes that must be done in order to combat obesity. There are, however, multiple individuals who feel that the fast food industry is simply taking a toll on Americans and their health. For instance, the article “Don’t blame the Eater” explains the battle of fast food chains in America, and the major causes of this epidemic. Obesity in America, costs the United States about 147 billion dollars annually. In a recent article, Author Eric Finkelstein, a researcher for Triangle Park conducted a study in which explains the multiple causes and affects of fast food chains and its role in creating an unhealthy society. Considerably, “The Effect of Fast food Restaurants on Obesity”, an in depth article written by authors Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Enrico Moretti and Vikram Pathania, share their studies and findings on how fast food chains are indeed a major player in obesity across the country, as well as a leading player in the up rise in health related illnesses. There is a connection between neighborhood scarcity and fast food industries.

The United States has seen a rapid increase in the number of obese adults. More precisely, the late 1970’s marks a point in which the percentage of obese adults started to jump. Within a twenty year period, the percentage of obese adults had risen almost twenty percent. Today, we sit at sixty-eight percent of the population obese or overweight and the numbers only continue to rise. With a boom in the popularity of fast food restaurants in the mid 1900’s, society had easy access to food, fast. Still today, we rely on fast food to feed us, fast and cheap. However, most fast food is not only easy to access, contributing to over eating, but is also very unhealthy. I see this as a major contributor to the issue of obesity.

One of today’s major problems is the prominence of obesity in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given the definition of a body mass index of 30.0 or higher as being obese. When analyzing this data, one in three U.S. citizens is obese and one in twenty are considered extremely obese. The Obesity Action Coalition has also announced that between the 1970s and today, fast food restaurants have double at the same rate as obese Americans. (Carey) While this is not all the fault of the restaurant, there is a correlation between cheap fast food with no nutrition and obesity. With this data, you’d think that steps would be taken to protect our youth but instead, fast food restaurants now tend to pop-up around schools and low-income neighborhoods. At the same time, fast food companies have spent about $4 billion in a year to advertise with a target on children ages six to eleven. (Fast

Obesity is a trouble that nearly every country in the world is facing, but there is a lot that people can do to repair it. More people die in the United States of too much food than of too little. In the 1970’s, people ate about 2,160 calories per day. Today, people eat around 2,673 calories per day. Americans are eating about 25 percent more calories than in the 1970’s. This happened because both plate sizes and portion sizes have expanded. Food became cheaper and faster to get. It could be difficult for people ages 18 to 25 to have a nice, healthy, home-cooked meal. So, instead of going on an empty stomach, most millennials choose to get unhealthy fast food. Consumers are just as much at fault for their obesity as the fast food

In today’s world, convenience is a necessity and as a result fast food joints are around every corner. In addition to fast food being easily available, it is promoted everywhere on media which is only encouraging our youth to eat more fast food, when they should be eating healthier. Instead of promoting fast food, a much more convenient option, the government and schools should be promoting healthier foods and healthier eating habits, which can be achieved through making fast food less accessible. In her article, “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause,” Jane E. Brody talks about how in the past, junk food was less accessible compared to the present day, “When I was growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s, I had to walk or bike many blocks to buy an ice cream

Kids love fast food. And the fast-food industry loves kids: it couldn't survive without them. They are, after all, the industry's biggest consumers. In the national bestseller Chew on This, available in paperback April 2007, the award-winning journalists Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson share with young readers the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks behind those sesame seed buns. Addressing the same issues as Schlosser's groundbreaking Fast Food Nation, the authors focus on the aspects that will interest preteens the most — the nonconformist entrepreneurs who founded the industry; the mistreatment of animals in slaughterhouses and of employees in restaurants; the shocking effects that too much fast food can have on

Our society is set up perfectly against our health. Unhealthy food options are more accessible than healthy options. Children are faced with endless fast food options and vending machines full of sugar-sweetened beverages and packaged foods. Portion sizes have increased substantially over the past 30 years. Over the course of 20 years the serving size of fries has gone from 2.4 ounces to 6.9 ounces.3 Families are eating out more frequently and restaurant meals are higher in calorie and fat than home cooked meals. Children are often times

What really causes obesity and people to become overweight? Is it really because of proportions and ingredients? Or is it the tempting commercials and conveniently fast and cheap food? There has been many accusations made and hands pointed in many directions when it comes to why America is struggling with obesity.

country alone, 17% of all children and adolescents are now obese, triple the rate from

When the experts in the documentary state that obesity is a condition due to the interaction of genes with the environment, they are referring to the fact that living in an area where you are surrounded by nothing other than fast food restaurants and junk food. you're more likely to consume the junk food more often, and you’ll end up having a chance of becoming overweight or obese. Food restaurants surrounding you can have an huge impact on your life, if you're living in a neighborhood that only sells junk food you’ll have a 90 percent chance of being obese because that’s going to be all that you ever consume. “You don't crave broccoli. In our generation it's growing up craving a Big Mac”. This showed the environmental influence it has on our society. Growing up everyone around you including yourself are going in and out fast food restaurants especially Mcdonald's, from that point on you also become addicted. Being that you are not familiar with eating vegetables you're going to always crave a big mac. Eating vegetables like broccoli will never cross your mind because you wouldn’t like the taste of it due to the fact that u had never gave it a try. Living in an environment where playgrounds or gyms aren't insight can also be very effective, this can cause a person to become less active, most of their time will be spent playing videos, watching television, and on the internet. However, if there were gyms