Children Obesity Issue in the US

Food is one of life’s main fundamentals to sustain viability. It is the continuing growth, maintenance and repair of the body that depends deeply on the energy and nutrients supplied to the body through the food. The nutrients that food provides to the human body is an incredibly, forceful process that keeps people alive and healthy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that over twenty-five million people in America have diabetes; 215,000 of those are children and over sixty-nine percent of all Americans are overweight and obese. This includes childhood obesity, which has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past thirty years. These shocking statistics that reveals that Americans, especially children, are not getting the proper nutrients their body needs. Processed or manufactured food is slowing destroying America’s people and also our economy.
Growing up on an island everything was fresh. The vegetables were grown in the back yard, the fish was caught nearby, and the meat was fresh from that morning. Nothing was processed or manufactured. Moving to America, everything was different; my cousins that lived with always ate McDonalds, mac and cheese, etc. All I wanted to eat was rice and beans that my mother would cook. I have always been healthy, and most of the kids around were overweight. Growing up I learned that the food the kids around would eat was not healthy for your body, but I never understood why.
American has taken many steps to improve their food production, but why is most of its people sick with related food disease. About seventy percent of Americans diet is processed food; this includes canned good, fast food or any food that cannot be made with simple ingredients ...

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...s that the processed food is going to waste. “In addition, a growing number of consumers are asking questions about where their food was produced, how it was produced, and who produced it (Hendrickson).”

America’s food source has altered drastically in the last century and so has the health of many. Americans used to thrive on natural foods for nutritional value, now Americans thrive on processed and manufactured food for just for convenience. Food companies have changed the very way we view nutrition. They have taken chemistry to a whole new level and added what they want it to what we now call food even if that harms our bodies in the long run. Food companies have also caused many hard working farmers to lose their jobs. These food companies have lost insight as to what is truly important in a food product and don’t care if that means taking someone else’s job.