She argues that companies are the only responsible for people becoming obese because they provide a lot of food just for a little of money probably because companies have found out that big meals produce big profits. Besides the companies are changing their menus in order to produce more profits also companies have been changing their products in order to fit with the new shape of the Americans such as clothing lines and furniture have been adapted to the new Americans’ style. She analyzes that at some point of the life, fast-food restaurants are going to destroy each other by competing in order to have the majority of clients. Brownlee considers that probably small quantities like in the 60’s or 70’s can help people to become healthier and avoid the
Saturated fat raises total blood cholesterol levels and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, which can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. Saturated fat may also increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. It is insane the amount of calories that one meal of McDonalds is. It is so unhealthy, aaltogether the Big Mac combo meal accounts for 1,483 calories, leaving a person on a 2,000 calorie diet with very little else to eat in one day. Many fast food meals rely on added fats and sodium as a way to enhance the flavor of inexpensive or low-quality ingredients.
A 100% tax on junk food and beverages would help pay for the collateral damages of this industry: the $150 billion in diet-related disease and health-care costs now incurred by the public and taxpayers for obesity and diabetes. Chicago laws strictly curbing school sales of junk food and sweetened drinks may play a role in slowing childhood obesity, according to a study that seems to offer the first evidence such efforts could pay off. The results come from the first large national look at the effectiveness of the state laws over time. The results are minor but “what are the downsides of improving the food environment for children today?” asked Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Children Hospital. “You can’t get much worse than what it already
By reducing the need for medical attention there would be more money left in the pockets of Americans. This would have both a positive and negative effect on the economy. Personnel in the medical field would lose money but other parts of the economy would prosper. Instead of spending your last dollar on a medical procedure, you could buy your family enough food to eat like royalty. Do you feel that our nation as a whole would be able to make the necessary changes and be successful if this were to become law?
Everything is becoming more fast pace, mechanized and technology based. With this in mind, the nutrition status for middle and low-income families have an increase in consumption of animal fat, refined grains and added sugar due to more production of highly processed foods to save time and money for companies (Gortmaker et al., 2011). It is important to stay up-to-date with the trends of obesity, but with the increasing rates is has become a high pubic health priority to prevent obesity (Penman & Johnson, 2009). Policies have been placed that increase taxes for unhealthy food, but this still makes it hard on lower income families who are still not able to afford healthier foods but instead are forced to buy unhealthy alternatives. Necessary alternative include a change in individual behavior and increase in education for people to understand the benefits and risk of obesity and how they can change.
David starts by teasing these overweight individuals that are bring a lawsuit against McDonalds, but then later admits that he used to be overweight as a child and was able to change his life around. He made a point to show health concerns with being obese and eating fast food regularly, such as type two diabetes which has risen about twenty-five percent since 1994. This raise in diabetes also requires much funding for the United States to spend to try to find a cure. David explains how there is very few alternatives for the youth of America because those health alternatives are more expensive and harder to find. False advertising is also another unpleasant practice that fast food companies use to lure in costumers.
The restrictions on sugary drinks contributed towards a branch out of many educational campaigns. The most influential campaign that caused the greatest decrease in obesity rates was ‘Rethink Your Drink’ proposed by the Hawaii Department of Health. Furthermore, limiting the size people can purchase sugary drinks will help stop the growth of beverage portions in the restaurant industry. Chain-restaurants have increased their beverage portion sizes monumentally over the past few decades, and bigger portion sizes have been proven to lead to greater consumption. Surely people will learn from the restrictions put on detrimental drinks, understand the dangers that come from drinking such large quantities of sugary beverages, and how harmful they can be towards the
Frequent consumption of these high calorie low nutrient foods may lead to serious weight gain (FRAC). In order to aid in the prevention of obesity and also keep the industry in business, many large corporations have been working to cut calories out of the products consumed by the public. Twenty three major food and beverage companies including Coca-Cola, Kraft, Nestle, and Subway have signed up to remove five million calories daily from the national diet, through reformulation of the product and fresh marketing techniques (Hegarty). These companies initiative to aide in the prevention of obesity has won them praise of many and will lead to further growth within the industry. It is hoped that many other large food corporations will also put forth the effort to aide in diminishing
A lot of people don’t take care of their bodies, and that is considered to be an individual problem. Bakst states that “the ban of trans fat in other countries has reduced diseases by 50 percent, but does the government still have the right to control what one eats?” Having hormones in the food does not prevent these diseases from happening; therefore the government should take over of how the food is
Because of the rising obesity rate in the last decade, people should be more aware of their conscious decisions. Judging from the way people eat and the food sources that are available to us, it is clear that we do make decisions about the food we tend to eat, whether the right choices or wrong choices. In Steven Greenstreet’s documentary,” Killer at Large” statistics show that two thirds of the country are overweight, that’s approximately 60 million people that have the disease. To put it in another way that is a significant number which needs to be lowered, but to do that America needs to have a plan. In Radley Balko’s essay, “what you eat is your business” it talks about how the government needs to interfere with our responsibility and