Worldwide one billion people are now obese, including 22 million children under the age of 5.
Obese people should not be allowed to blame fast food restaurants and their foods for their
obesity and overweight problems.
There are hundreds of different causes for obesity and being overweight, and eating fast
food could be one of them. In this day and age the people in America are getting lazy and are
filled with busy schedules, which affect their diets. Many people these days have no time at
home to cook their own meals and eat something healthy. Instead of cooking at home, they say
“Hey why not just get fast food?” They just go to any fast food they feel like without having any
second thoughts about what they are going to be eating and how bad it can be for them.
Back in the day, people were hardly ever obese. Part of that is that there was no fast food
place to get a quick meal, and they had to make their own food. Not only make their own food
but had to grow their own foods and vegetables, and they eaten a lot healthier than we do today.
A good way to avoid getting tempted by fast food is to grow your own vegetable and
food and plan making dinner at home. Without even thinking about it, you could intake 1,500
calories easy in one fast food meal for really cheap too. Even though the recommended calorie
intake is 1,500-1,800 calories per day. People just cannot turn down the fast, easy, and very
cheap meal. Also in some cases some families may just eat out because that is all they can
afford. Causes of obesity is not just from bad eating and wrong diets, it also is your level of daily
physical activity. You cannot just eat really healthy foods and expect to be fit and really healthy.
You need to e...
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...tire family healthy and active to prevent everyone
from getting obese or overweight.
Eat healthy and nutritious snacks throughout the day instead of high calorie and high
sugar granola bars or candy. They will give you more energy than those will with high calories
and sugars. Avoid alcohol for the most part, most alcoholic beverages have high calorie amounts
and can cause diseases along with obesity. Write down the foods eaten and make a plan to fix
your high calorie foods. Check your weight regularly and calculate your Body Mass Index a few
times a week. All of these things can have an effect on weight and avoiding obesity. In general
try to keep away from those high sugar and high calorie foods and snacks and keep being
physically active every day. There are quite a lot of factors that can have a bad effect on your
body and can cause obesity.
Obesity is a huge problem that needs to be resolved because it affects all people, unlike most issues. People of every gender, every age, and every race are at risk of being obese. Obesity rates in America have nearly doubled within the last twenty years. Something must be done not only to prevent obesity rates continuous rising, but also to dramatically increase the percentage of obese people in America altogether.
Common causes of obesity can be excessive caloric intake, thyroid disorders, lack of physical activity, genes, medicines, emotions, smoking, age, and pregnancy. The combination of calorie restriction and exercise seems to be more effective rather than either one alone. Sticking to a weight
Furthermore, before the fast food industry people just had home cooked meals. Everywhere they went either that be church events or family gatherings, everything people ate was home cooked. If people were traveling the worst part of the trip would be the fact that they could not eat
Besides changing your diet, you should talk to your doctor about an exercise program that's right for you. If you smoke, quit. If you're overweight, try to lose weight (changing your diet and exercising will help you lose weight). Talk with your doctor about reducing other risk factors, such as high blood pressure or diabetes. – Dr. Donnely; Cody Family Practice Center
Maintain your ideal weight. Overweight people are at greater risk for heart disease. You should eat a healthy diet that is low in fats and sugar and containing mostly vegetables and
Since the 1960?s obesity in America has more than tripled regardless of sex or race. Today 30.5 percent, or 69 million, American Adults are considered obese (?AOA Fact Sheets? np). In addition, 13 percent of children aged 6-11 years old are considered overweight, and well on their way to becoming obese. Obesity causes over 300,000 deaths a year and costs the country $117 billion dollars, prompting health care providers and the government to label it an epidemic (?Overweight and Obesity?? np).
Forty years ago in America childhood obesity was rarely a topic of conversation. A survey done in the early 1970s showed that 6.1% of children between the ages 12 and 19 were overweight. Eight years later the same survey was done and 17.4% were considered overweight (Iannelli). “Childhood obesity epidemic in America is now a confirmed fact since the number of overweight or obese children has more than tripled during the last 30 years” (Childhood Obesity Epidemic). “Over the last 20 years, the prevalence of obesity in children aged 6 to 11 years has tripled from 6.5% to 19.6%” (Childhood Obesity Epidemic). As a nation statistics should be alarming. Why are American children today so obese?
...ercentage points in the fraction of students in a class who are obese relative to the presence of a fast food restaurant at 0.25 miles”. Having a fast food restaurant so close to their school has played a big part of their weight gain. Yes I have to agree that people do live a very busy life but I do too. A lot of parents believe that cooking a home cook meal will take hours, but in fact it could take the same amount of time as if they would go to a fast food restaurant.
Obesity cannot be fixed without first fixing hunger and poverty. To be healthy it takes healthy foods (including fruits, vegetables, and low fat products) and burning more calories than digesting. Healthy foods can cost a lot of money and push low-income families to eat unhealthier processed foods. Obesity and hunger are connected it can each be connected to poverty. While obesity seems to be the result of too much food and hunger the lack of food, the common issue of poverty must be addressed in order to ease the obesity crisis in the United States.
People should also consider doing more activities in order to maintain a healthy status. According to the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture, “physical activity levels have remained low over time”. This research proves that young adults are eating more and exercising less. Maybe changing eating habits and doing more exercise would help them to improve their health.
Which all provide either ready to eat food, or it will be ready really quick, hence the name “fast food”. The process they use to make the food is very efficient, so efficient it makes you question if the food is really food. All the food is processed, all made in a factory somewhere, using god knows what kind of ingredients, then frozen and shipped to all the restaurants over America. People say that Americans are becoming addicted to it, or are addicted with the efficiency of it. Being able to stop quick, get fast food and go on about their day with minimal time loss. Why not right? Why wouldn't you save your time, by simply grabbing some fast food? Being that it’s so efficient, there’s no way that it’s going to have the same health value as a home cooked meal. Most of these meals are high in fat, calories, and sodium; this is because they are prepared in factories with little regard for dietary
Many college freshmen are sent by their parents to a college far from their home where they don’t know many people. Many of these students have never cooked or done anything in their house before. They had their parents to cook for them, but now that they live along they don’t know what to do, so they start eating fast food because they don’t know how to cook and they can save time like that. Once these students start eating fast food they don’t stop. They get used to the fact that they don’t need to cook and they don’t have any family that would stop them.
“Healthy eating” means eating a variety of foods that gives you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feeling good with your health conditions, and having enough energy throughout the day (Nordqvist). A poor diet can cause harm a person’s daily life activities. Research from Eating Healthy Might Prove Too Expensive for Poor ABC News shows, that the price of eating healthy foods may be expensive to a family who earns a low-income. So, eating fast foods may be more convenient for them knowing that the prices are way less. However, everyone should make the effort to stop eating foods that will later on harm your health. As mentioned in the article “Healthy Eating”, “Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically
One's surrounding can also affect one's health. People have stopped buying healthy food due to its inavailability and expense issues.4 They alternated to eating fast, unhealthy and high-fat meals. This phenomenon is also supported by food companies which encourage this movement towards an unhealthy lifestyle by advertising fast food as more delicious, less expensive and more power providing6.
Nearly 35% of the U.S adults are obese and 34% are overweight (nichd.nih.gov, 1). Anyone that is more than 100 pounds’ overweight is considered to be obese (nlm.nih.gov, 1). There are proven facts that people that are obese are highly likely to be addicted to food. Food affects systems in the brain that control feelings of reward, which is what causes the addiction (Kenney, 7). Since most people in the world that are obese or overweight are addicted to food, the government should try and make a stop to fast food chains because people that are already eating badly have no self-control or will power before everyone in the world follows their path and ruins their