Junk Food: The Negative Effects Of Fast Food

Fast food companies have caused a massive negative impact to society over the last couple of years despite the companies promise to produce healthy and nutritious meals. Many people have already been affected by the damages caused by eating junk food. During the 1950s, the United States Of America had an obesity rate of under 10 percent and as the fast food chain increased in 1975, the obesity rate rose up to a whopping 32 percent and has only kept growing. As the obesity rate increased so had the other forms of diseases that have and will continue to affect people until it has been known that the junk food is the primary cause and to stop or minimise the junk food intake.150 billion dollars (and still increasing) has been spent on obesity related diseases while a 174 billion dollars has been spent for treatment for diabetes and as more people consume junk food so has been the rate for treatment. In order to reduce medical expenses and self harm from junk food one must first switch to a healthy and proactive lifestyle.If the adults do not stop this bad habit children will follow and be affected in the near future. Foreign countries whom have been developing over the last decade had been impacted as well due to the lack of knowledge of the harm of the product. In 2013, the World Health Organisation declared that 42 million

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico issued a law stating that all junk foods and unhealthy products are to be taxed, aiming to tackle the rates of obesity. This action will have an effect on the economic scale of Mexico but the president aims that in the next few years fewer citizens will be diagnosed with obesity which will have a positive impact on medical expenditure [The Guardian,Sarah Boseley,2013].Several countries in Europe and Scandinavia has adapted to this law as