Persuasive Essay On Fast Food

Obesity is a very serious matter in the world today and there needs to be a regulation to help with this issue. With children becoming less active and eating more, their risk of obesity is much higher. Kids do not need to be rewarded with fast food every time they want it or every time they do something right. Parents and young children around the world need to understand the importance of healthy food so they can make better choices. If they make better choices with food, then the less likely they are going to have major health problems in the long run. My goal is for the U.S. Department of Agriculture is to raise the prices on meats and unhealthy foods that are made in fast food restaurants, and instead lower healthier food that you would buy in the grocery store. Fast food comes from the leftovers of the cow instead of the actual healthy stuff from them. That’s why fast food is so cheap and meat from the deli is so expensive. Fast food meat is not healthy in any way because it has no nutritional value in it. If prices increase at fast food restaurants, then the average American is more likely to stay away from there and just get their things from the store where they are a lot healthier. Yes these meats in the store may cost a little bit more but they get a lot more nutrients out of them along with a couple meals. If one person cooked a couple patties of hamburger or steak, then they would be able to eat it for a few days and change up the way they eat it as well. If one night they want to have hamburgers then they can, and then if they want spaghetti one night then all they have to do is cook the noodles and put the meat in the sauce.

This research is necessary because if adults and children don’t learn about heal...

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...rnment as well because President Barrack Obama would have to approve of this or the congress would have to override him. If Barrack Obama did the research he would realize that According to an infographic by MPH@GW, “The Cost of Obesity,” lowering the national obesity rate by just five percent could eliminate 13 percent of the federal deficit over the next 20 years. Re-framing the obesity epidemic in economic terms could be a way to persuade Americans to tackle obesity through public health legislation (Fudin). Obesity needs to be regulated in the next few years and the only way that this could be done is through raising fast food prices and lowering healthy food prices. If they don’t control this issue then the entire world with become unhealthy and not live as long as we are today because many of them will have health issues by time they are in their thirties.