The Pros And Cons Of Food

Giving the world a chance to admit, food has a lot to offer humans on this planet. For example, of course people need food to survive and people use food for their own personal needs as well. From healthy food to unhealthy food, the world is guilty of eating it all. Food is food, and the world has made billions of dollars from this powerful substance. Yes, food is powerful because the world strives from eating it. Energy is stored in this substance, which is known as chemical energy. However, some chemical energy cannot be too good. Food has its' pros and cons that affects the world in a numerous amount of ways. Fast, cheap food is known to be to good to the taste but bad to the body. While people are eating this food, they do not quite understand

Notice that fast foods are cheap and tasty but unhealthy as well. Fast food is cheap to produce. Cheap produce can result in an unhealthy substance, which is not found in healthy food. This is why people can easily get sick from cheap food. Pollan states, "Beginning in 2001 with the publication of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and, the following year, Marion Nestle's Food Politics, the food journalism of the past decade has succeeded in making clear connections between the methods of industrial food production, agricultural policy, foodborne illness, childhood obesity, the decline of the family meal, and, notably, the decline of family income beginning in the 1970's (Pollan 513)."Due to the fact, fast food restaurants can cause any sickness, or health issue. Here is Pollan's significant costs of eating cheap

Obesity is a common case in the United States, which has a lot to do with eating unhealthy foods like fast foods. This disease is a health issue that contains a lot of health risks. Just to name a few, obesity can lead to death, high blood pressure, breathing trouble, strokes, diabetes, cancer, and plenty more. Our first lady of the President of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, has been a health pro-activist while President Obama served his presidency. Pollan discusses Michelle Obama's way of improving the food movements to better results. Obama has discovered connections with high processed food that has ties with the epidemic of chronic disease, which leads to health care systems with no funds to help cure this health issue. The high processed foods that were mentioned in Pollan's article are the unhealthy foods that he has been stressing. The world has to understand how important it is to diet and stray away from these foods because they have to much control over a person's