Is obesity today in America Caused by the Food Industry? Name and Age: Amanda Keller 17 years old Grade and School: High School Senior at Itineris Early College High School The essay Is the Food Industry the Problem or the Solution? by Dale Buss is about obesity in America today and whether the food industry is responsible for the high increase in obese Americans. If you ask this simple question, it is easy blame obesity on what we eat, but when you look deeper into the problem you will find that the food industry is spending millions searching for consumer’s solutions to prevent childhood obesity, but we are finding that the problem is ultimately caused by what we as parents or children decide to consume or choices of activity. A cause
2. Which of the statistics listed in #1 affects you personally and how? Obesity-related medical conditions cost our nation nearly $150 billion every year and account for 16 to 18 percent of our total healthcare costs. This effects me because if people would just eat healthier than the money can go into schools and pay for cops, firefighters, and teachers. 3.Suggest ways that our society as a whole could reverse or improve the statistic in a positive way for each of the statistics listed in #1.
Why have they chosen Japan? Do you agree with their decisions? Burger King and other companies like McDonalds decided to enter foreign markets because U.S. fast food is market almost reaching its saturation. After reading multiple articles I can conclude that it is relatively easy to enter Japanese market, because prices are not high, due to domestic recession and resulting price deflation of the past 8-10 years. I definitely can agree with McDonalds entering the market, with its aggressive marketing program.
For this reporter, evaluating the burger first-hand was problematic: I’ve been a vegetarian for more than a dozen years. So I tried calling some expert tasters. Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold says he doesn’t much care for Five Guys — he finds the burger “boring” — but understands why people like them. “There’s that goopeyness, and it does fit that kind of American profile.” Gilmore, the marketing consultant, calls the burgers “a couple pounds of carnivorous pleasure.” Then he adds, “It’s almost enough to make me feel sad for
Local business were losing their customers to the corporate businesses and being put out of business. Fast food is affecting our culture, education, and our health. Eric Schlosser talks about how fast food restaurants play a more important role in the American obesity epidemic than people realize. In the year 2000 Americans spent over $110 billion on fast food alone. Americans are spending more on fast food than higher education, computers, and new cars.
The use of cows to put their restaurant out on the market was a success. In 1995 the first cow was used on a billboard with the words “EAT MOR CHIKIN” From that day forward, the burger-eating landscape would forever be changed (Chick-Fil-A, 2011).” With their message on television, radio and internet it has reached millions. Part of their recipe for success is closing on Sundays. This decision was made back in 1946 when the company was first established; Mr. Cathy believed that employees should have time with their families and worship if they chose to do so. These kinds of strategies sets them apart from other restaurants, in 2010 the company’s system wide sales reached $3.5
As we all know, the most popular fast-food restaurant in the world also has the reputation for being the unhealthiest place around. McDonald's is a favorite of many households in America and it seems that today people can't get enough of it. In the documentary called Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock attempts to prove that the effects of eating Big Macs, supersized fries, and half-gallons of coke can be extremely dangerous to one's health. Spurlock goes through a thirty day adventure of eating only McDonald's food. He effectively shows to doctors, himself, and his audience that, fast-food eating Americans are in danger of destroying their health.
(And don’t worry this chapter is a lot saner and healthier than the previous.) I again got another wake up call and this time I listened. I love to workout but there is an old saying you are what you eat and boy did I eat. All I did was eat fast food. My middle name soon became McDonald’s To me fast food was my long lost lover, If I didn’t have a cheeseburger or French fries , I would have an ice cream milk shake.
Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic? (Scientific American, 2005) A growing number of dissenting researchers accuse government and medical authorities— as well as the media— of misleading the public about the health consequences of rising body weights By W. Wayt Gibbs ould it be that excess fat is not, by itself, a serious health risk for the vast majority of people who are overweight or obese — categories that in the U.S. include about six of every 10 adults? Is it possible that urging the overweight or mildly obese to cut calories and lose weight may actually do more harm than good? Such notions defy conventional wisdom that excess adiposity kills more than 300,000 Americans a year and that the gradual fattening of nations since the 1980s
The highest percent of obesity worldwide is amongst children. In Europe, officials are calling for food industries to set their own regulations, or face bans like the tobacco industry. McDonalds is trying to expand and reach new markets, but it is being threatened with social pressure from nutritionists and national governments. McDonald has been adjusting to this issue by adding new healthier options to its menus, adding balanced lifestyle messages into marketing campaigns, and by continuing to promote and raise funds for foundations aimed at helping children with life threatening illnesses. Question How should McDonald’s respond when ads promoting healthy lifestyles featuring Ronald McDonald are equated with Joe Camel and cigarette ads?