Who Is The Blame For Obesity?

Since the 1980’s, obesity has been a huge issue in America. Obesity is the condition of being extremely overweight. Several Americans today are eating too much food and not exercising enough. Americans today fail to realize how important it is to stay healthy and fit. Obesity is a result of the body receiving more calories than needed. Once a human consumes too many calories, the body stores these additional calories which becomes body fat. Over time, these excess calories will result in weight gain. Individuals will gain less weight if they ingest fewer calories. The obesity epidemic is getting worse day by day and it’s beginning to control the lives of Americans. Therefore, it is our job as Americans to rid of this epidemic before it seizes

The Unites States leads the world in the number of obese citizens. Although, obesity does not kill a person; however, it leads to many health diseases such as heart problems, liver malfunction, high blood pressure and diabetes. Beside the major health problem caused by obesity, it prevents a person from a normal life condition. Researches has proven that a person whose obese have less chance to get in college; for those who get in college have less chance to get a job. It is also expected that if Americans do not change their daily diet, by the year of 2030, most of Americans would be obese. As it concerns 70% of Americans, we need to evaluate causes and effects of obesity in order to establish an efficient health program that help solving a major problem in the Unites States.

After reading and analyzing Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor’s article, “Who’s to Blame for Childhood Obesity?”, I established that I was in agreement with a great deal of their findings. I was alarmed by content in the article revealing that publicly the junk food industry “sympathizes” with America’s obesity crisis yet behind the scenes they hold an entirely different agenda: profit. I was deeply saddened to learn that lobbyists hired by these influential companies wield so much power in governmental decisions and legislation. These lobbyists diligently seek to protect the interest of the junk food industry, yet, in the meantime, who is diligently seeking to protect the best interest and health of the American public, explicitly our

America is suffering from a national eating disorder. Men, women, and children are eating more unhealthy than ever and paying the price for it. Obesity has become one of the top causes of death, after cigarettes. This begs the question, who’s to blame for all of this? Whether you believe it is the responsibility of consumers, companies, or the U.S government the truth is that it is no one and everyone’s fault. The obesity epidemic in America is a complex problem with complex causes, but its solutions are rather simple.

Obesity is becoming an epidemic all around the nation and is now officially considered a disease. The purpose of this study is to prove that obesity is a preventable factor among Americans and obesity should be considered the cause to a vast amount of different diseases, but not a disease by itself. This topic is significantly vital to the American society because obesity can decrease life expectancy and increase the number of deaths rates that occur in the United States.

According to recent reports, 60% of the adults in the US are considered obese. Fast food restaurants are found at every block and owners try their best to ensure that their customers are ordering in supersize.

The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, determined that, “more than one-third of (34.9% or 78,6 million) American adults are obese” (Adult Obesity Facts, cdc.gov). Diseases that can be directly correlated with obesity include, “heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer” (Adult Obesity Facts, cdc.gov). As a result, “the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars the medical costs for people who are obese were $1, 429 higher than those of normal weight ” (Adult Obesity Facts, cdc.gov). The causes of such an obesity epidemic should not be blamed on the availability of fast food. It is clear that obesity has more deeply rooted impacts on Americans than it seems on the

Obesity, the condition of being severely overweight, is a serious issue in the United States that is gradually beginning to affect more and more citizens. In recent years, the number of Americans suffering from this chronic disease has significantly increased. Researchers have found that nearly one third of the U.S. population is considered overweight and, on average, three hundred thousand individuals die yearly as a result of obesity (Hollands et al. 2). When one participates in little to no physical activity and their diet consists mostly of high fat foods, chances are they will gain weight. If someone becomes obese, they may develop serious health related issues that, in some cases,

In today's society, fast food has become a large part of many American's lives. With the rising numbers of obese people, it is hard not to draw a correlation between the increase in fast food and obesity. Most obese people don’t want to be obese and wish they could lose weight, yet they continue to struggle with their fast food intake and obesity. This is due to the advertising done on the consumers, the highly addictive food itself, and most importantly, how advertising and addiction combine with children to form habits that are kept once they become adults. These factors are the reasons that fast food restaurants are to blame for the rising obesity and health risks across America. The government needs to step in and place regulations on

As the fast food world spread across the nation, obesity was shortly following in its footsteps. According to, “The History of the Fast Food Industry,” Since 1970 the amount of fast food restaurants have doubled, which equates to roughly 300,000 establishments in the United States. Ironically, 33.8% of the U.S. population is affected by obesity and 19% of children and young adults are also affected.

Bigger meals, less healthy options, GMOs, cost of healthy food rising, and people being less active than they used to be are just a few of the many deadly factors that cause obesity. Today’s culture downplays the effects of constantly eating junk food and not being active, and promotes the life of video games, TV, fast food, and unhealthy food. This has resulted in roughly 2/3s of the USA's population being obese or overweight (Ron Finley 2010). Children who have parents that are overweight are significantly more likely to become overweight themselves. This results in an endless cycle of being unhealthy (Mrs. Obama 2009).

Every day while sitting on the couch eat a burger, and soon many people learn what the obesity hype is all about. Fast food companies are advertising more food for less money with fast service. The media tends to change images for their target customers, to make the food more appealing to those that are watching. Laziness is one of the main causes of obesity in our country. Obesity in the United States is at a high due to the increasing fast food chains, media influence, and a lack of exercise. The idea of having a meal made for them in less than five minutes is somewhat exciting to the view of many individuals.” fast food firms introduced these alternative meals in response to changing consumer tastes”(Buchholz). Many fast food stores offer the customer fast service, and a great tasting meal. They provide their service with a smile and a meal that can cost less than 10 dollars. When people mix poor diet with poor

Several studies have shown that the increase in fast food restaurants over the past few decades has resulted in a negative impact on the already outrageous obesity rate.According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the number of fast food restaurants over the past thirty years has tripled, which equates to about three hundred thousand establishments in the United States alone. During this time the number of children, ages six to nineteen classified as obese, has risen from five percent to seventeen percent. The percentage of adults classified as obese has risen from half to two-thirds the population. Although fast food restaurants may be a contributing factor to the increasing obesity rate in the United States, people are

The success of the diet and fitness indicate that people are aware of obesity and want to lose weight, but the problem is, waistlines continue to swell. The acceleration and the size of the obesity epidemic suggest to people that there must be other effects except laziness and overindulgence. Obesity is an escalating issue that is destructive, it has received much attention for the last 10 years. "Where there is a blame there is a claim", this makes people to look for a target to blame for. This raises the issue of who is to blame for obesity, individual or food industry. The aim of this study is to answer who is responsible for obesity. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The second section explains why individuals are responsible for obesity. The third section presents the contribution of food industry in obesity. The fourth sections reports the discussion of findings after this study.The fifth section concludes. This study will only focus on the obesity in America to illustrate the main points involved.

How hungry have Americans become? Obesity has become such a common problem for all Americans ranging from the youngest to the oldest person. Ever since the 70’s obesity has been on a steep increase and it has not stopped. The problem with obesity is that it does not only add on more pounds, it also leads to more serious diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Because of this it is crucial that the 18-26 year olds fix this widespread disease for the simple fact that they will save the fate of America. This is an issue that has been pushed aside because it is such a controversial topic in part because people don’t know where to place the blame. Some agree that the individuals need to take personal responsibility while others say it is all the fast food industry's fault. On the other hand, many believe it happens because people don’t know how to balance what they are eating and that obesity is just in their genetics. Despite where the blame lies obesity is still on a killing spree and action needs to be taken towards it. In order to fix the epidemic of obesity as well as obesity related diseases people need to start taking more personal responsibility, but the fast food industry's also need to make some changes.