Fast Food Essay

America has struggled balancing out what it’s considered to be healthy. Children look at skinny as the definition of healthy and do not realize that not every “fat” person is unhealthy and not every skinny person is healthy. It’s not to be skinny but to live a healthier lifestyle. Children consume food from their schools and homes almost every day, so what they eat is not in their control necessarily. Parents and schools lack knowledge on what they feed their children, and because they lack knowledge it causes children to become overweight or obese.
Parents are busy most of the day, so finding quick ways to feed their children is the most convenient thing to do. “Parents between ages 25 to 54 who live with children under the age of 18 work

Most people eat out, about “55%of people eat fast food during the week” (Alfano). Fast food is just easier; it gives parents time to settle in at home after work and children to get homework or showers in before bed. Cooking meals come with having to clean a decent amount of dishes which is inconvenient for everything that needs done after school and before bed. Unsurprisingly, “17% of people eat a home cooked meal 7 nights a week”, 17% is very low compared to the people who eat fast food during the week (Alfano). Families do not always eat out each day a week, some manage to eat a home cooked meal “2-3 nights a week” that is at least “27%” of the people surveyed (Alfano). Not eating nutritious home cooked meals really affect children because “when people aren’t cooking

When children are not receiving food at home, they are getting fed at schools where they spend most of their day during the weekdays. It may be shocking but “one major risk of unhealthy school lunches is a contribution to obesity and other weight problems in children across the nation” (Schuna). Most would think since schools teach nutrition during health classes which is required in schools all over the nation that they would practice what they preach by serving the ideal healthy meals for lunches. To know “the government regulates the number of calories a child’s school lunch has, as it does with the NSLP, many schools allow children to purchase a la carte foods on top of the lunch that are calorie-rich and high in fat, sodium, sugar or all three” (Schuna). They are serving decent foods but are contradicting themselves by selling unhealthy snacks, which encourage children to believe eating those foods are not harmful to their health if their schools are supplying them. Just as schools were unintentionally encouraging snacks parents were unknowingly feeding their children unhealthy meals. A filmmaker did an experiment in Australia where he gained 22 pounds but "the main catch was [he] wasn 't eating any junk food," Gameau said during a phone interview from Melbourne, Australia. "[he] was eating these perceived health foods that most parents would