Impact of Fast Food Restaurants on America's Obesity Epidemic

Obesity was considered an epidemic once people started to realize it was the second biggest cause of death in America. Since obesity was considered an epidemic many started to consider if banning fast food restaurants or making fast food restaurants illegal, would help decrease the obesity rate. An unhealthy lifestyle can cause obesity, health problems, and death.

Opening fast food restaurants in southern California should be illegal because it can cause obesity. Fast food comes high in calories, high in fat, high in sugars, and high in saturated and trans fat. “Obesity can come from eating fast food that’s bought often. Fast food is made from a lot of high saturated fats and calories if it is not worked off, then you can grow to become obese. Even a small quantity of fast food contains high calories. Thus, without knowing, they consume a lot of calories.” (EI) When eating fast food many people don’t realize how bad it is for your health, when eating a burger or any fast food meal just by replacing a cookie with some apple slices makes a difference for your health.

Obesity can cause a variety of major health problem such as high blood pressure, heart disease. What is high blood pressure? Every time your heart beats, it pumps blood through your arteries to the rest of your body. Blood pressure is how hard your blood

According to Dr. Mercola the effect varies somewhat by your gender, race and age. The younger you are, the greater obesity 's influence on your mortality. And contrary to a previous study, obesity is not protective if you 're elderly. The Columbia study found the following percentage of deaths associated with high BMI (body mass index): Black women: 26.8 percent of deaths were associated with a BMI of 25 or above (overweight or obesity) White women: 21.7 percent, White men: 15.6 percent, Black men: 5