The question referring to is feeding children fast food child abuse, is a topic that I think is debated frequently in today’s society. I chose this topic because I think that some people make the fast food industry look very bad and I disagree with how the industry is sometimes portrayed. There are many opinions about how fast food affects people, especially children. Yes, too much fast food is not healthy. However, too much of anything in my opinion is not healthy. Therefore, my position on this debate is feeding children fast food is not child abuse. This paper will discuss the different opinions about whether or not feeding children fast food is child abuse. Also, research studies and other sources will be used to examine the opinions of …show more content…
In an article from the Elephant Journal, a blogger named Tom Grasso focuses on the question about whether feeding kids fast food is child abuse. He considers today's society as a society that is fat even though there is a fear of being fat. He puts the blame on parents for kids who are obese and eat fast food and other unhealthy foods. (Grasso-Gyandeva, 2011) Fast food is not just considered foods like hamburgers, hotdogs, tacos or french fries. The food that is found at home can also be considered fast food and is unhealthy. He also discusses the issue about whether obesity in children is abusive. The statistics show that 1 in 5 children and adolescents who live in the US are obese. (Centers for Disease Control) Also, the Institute of Medicine reports that rates of excess weight and obesity in children ages 2-5 have doubled since the …show more content…
I think that video games can be a form of child abuse. These games cause children to have aggressive behavior and become somewhat mentally unstable. Some children become so addicted to playing video games to the point that it controls their behavior. In an online newsletter from Ask Dr Sears, it discusses the extent of how video games affect children. Video games are full of violence and statistics show that 80% of the most popular video games feature aggressiveness or violence as the primary themes, and in 20% of these games the aggressiveness or violence is directed toward women. I found the following statistic the most alarming: by the time typical American children reach the age of eighteen, they have seen 200,000 acts of violence and 40,000 murders on some sort of screen. (Ask Dr Sears) Also, research from Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman shows that willingness to kill another person is not a natural behavior, but one that has to be taught by repeated desensitization and exposure to violence. (Crown Publishers, New York, 1999) He considers violent video games as "murder simulators". As I stated earlier, parents should be more responsible at what video games they allow their child to watch or play. If parents do not monitor their children then there are many problems that they child will probably face.
...nd violent actions. I’ve only shared some of the cases there are many more and a lot of them happen on an everyday basis’ to where we don’t even notice them. So I think that kids shouldn’t be allowed to play video games because in the long run it will lead to violent behavior.
He was enlightened about various nutritional matters thanks to his participation in the Health Magazine. The writer also regrets that other youths may never change their lives for the better. They still face the menace of catching obesity and other serious diseases associated with unchecked feeding habits. As long as the fast foods still offer foods without information about what they contain, the youths still remain vulnerable to numerous ailments, given that the foods are affordable. The problem is widespread and even those who are not infected are affected.
Obesity in the United States, which the media has labeled a national crisis, has also been connected to poverty rates. Big fast food industry’s target poor communities, and spend millions of dollars each year to create advertising that appeals to these specific areas. These industry’s also target naïve children when advertising because they know that eating habits developed in childhood are usually carried into adulthood. Children who are exposed to television advertisements for unhealthy food and who are not educated well enough on good nutrition will grow up and feed their families the same unhealthy foods they ate as kids. A big way fast food giants are able to make certain young people have access to unhealthy food is by strategically placing franchises in close proximity to schools. They will often place three times as many outlets within walking distance of schools than in areas where there are no schools nearby. The way fast food advertising is targeted towards children is very alarming considering how important good nutrition is for young people and how a child’s eating habits can affect their growth and
Children that play violent video games at such a young age will have a bad effect on them. “Not everybody who plays these games will become murderers, just as not everybody who smoke gets cancer” (Quittner, J). Every day people play with these games will have an effect on the way they look at things, they will begin to have aggressive thoughts, and they will begin to have a change in behavior. On average boys spend thirteen hours per week and girls spend five hours on video games. This amount of time a week will have a major effect of these children minds. “Violent video games effect people. They increase aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, and physical arousal symptoms.”(Rollins 1)
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In this paper, it will focus on how junk food marketing impacts childhood obesity. Childhood obesity continues to be on the rise from junk food marketing because of the schools food policies and vending machines, increased junk food available at supermarkets and advertisements in social media.
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The American diet has changed dramatically in the past couple centuries and so has the restaurant industry. The result of this change in Americans actions and diets is a rising obesity rate among children. In the 1970s, the childhood obesity rate was five percent of children (2-19 years old). The obesity rates doubled in the 1980s and by 2008 16.9% of children were obese (Grossklavs and Marvlesin). The percentage of obese children has more than tripled in the last 40 years. The growing epidemic is dangerous and alarming. There are many factors that contribute to the dramatic rise of obesity children. As obesity has grown, so has the fast food industry. “Between 1977 and 1995, the percentage of meals and snacks eaten at fast food restaurants doubled,” (...
Although, I disagree that people should blame fast food chains for their health problems. The fast food industry intentionally markets unhealthy food to children (opposing viewpoints). Did you know that fast food chains spend more than 3 million a year on...
One way that fast food effects obesity is by advertising their products to children (Miller). In her article Food Advertising Contributes to Obesity, Patti Miller explains that the fast food companies are targeting kids and teenagers by advertising on television. The fast food advertisements are promoting unhealthy products as acceptable food which influences children to choose those meals. The American Psychological Association, an organization focused on improving the lives of individuals, expressed that with the exposure of different fast food commercials, children request to purchase these unhealthy products and cause the parents to be influenced by these requests. This concludes the idea that once children are encouraged by the commercials, they opt to consume the fast food advertised on television. Today, fast food companies are even advertising through schools by offering pizzas and burgers as school lunches, which consequently becomes a daily meal for children and teenagers to consume (Wadden, Brownell,
There have been so many experiments and studies to try and figure out if video games have a negative or positive effect on our children. A growing body of research is linking violent video game play to aggressive cognitive, attitudes and behaviors (D.A. Gentile, 2004). The 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of Video games can obviously be dangerous for our children, causing aggression, bad performances in school and obesity. Although we cant blame all of these problems on the use of video games, there have been many studies to prove so.... ...
Through Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation he examines the effects that fast food has impacted the world and the way it is affecting the people that are consuming it. As the fast food industry continues to grow throughout not only the United States but the whole world, marketing companies are always looking for ways to broaden the group of people that are interested in buying their product over another company’s. As a marketer for a fast food company it is essential to have a group of people that you can rely on to always buy the company’s product, to many fast food companies they found this group of people to be adolescents and children. Marketing groups specifically market their products to entice this group of people to lure them in. Food is an object that is needed for the survival of a human, but the type of food that humans chose to eat is also not always the best. Because fast food is so cheap and easily accessible just about everywhere you turn your head, many people resort to eating it even though it is very unhealthy. With these factors present, many adults have exposed their children to fast food at a young age, these parents do not always think about the long term effects of feeding their children fast food because they are so caught up in the moment of feeding their kids right then and there; they do not think about the health risks that can occur later as a result from eating fast food now.
The question is, “Do violent video games influence children to act aggressively?” and “Can repetitive killing train a person to be violent himself?” Although the violence in these video games is fictional, research has proven the violence to lead to more aggressive behavior in children. Violent acts depicted in these games allow young children to believe that killing and fighting is acceptable and fun.
It's quick, it's convenient, it's delicious. Fast food is the most popular quick-service nourishment. It plays an important roll in the lives that we humans so perfectly laid out for ourselves. Why try cooking when you can get food at a much faster rate? To most people, fast food is the answer to all of our problems. It is good in every possible way, or is it? Although some might deny the consequences, we all know there is a steep price to pay. So here by today, I am asking you to have a closer look at the hidden dangers. In my opinion, we should free the world of fast food because, not only are they adding the amount of cruelty to animals and draining money out of our pockets, they're also taking great risk of the health of billions of people.