Out of the total revenue, $10 billion comes from the healthy food section. To maintain the balance between the demands of shareholders and other interest groups, the company is hiring more health officials, so that they can do more research and improve their products. 2- How effective do you think Pepsi Co. has been in responding to stakeholders concerns about nutrition and sustainability? As I said before, you can't expect Pepsi Co. proving a purely healthy food items. It has faced many criticism, for it's unhealthy ingredients.
This responsibility also needs to be the leading factor in the lawsuits that are being filed against fast food companies because of childhood obesity. We are all aware of the health risks associated with eating these kind of meals and although children are left with little choice at times as to what to prepare themselves for breakfast, lunch or dinner, there are healthier alternatives for preparing meals which are also cheaper to purchase than fast food. With all the information available on the Internet, brochures at fast food restaurants and other nutrition tips at these establishments we need to hold ourselves responsible for our health and stop blaming the fast food
Though, many physicians argue that a BMI of 25 kg/m2 or greater is a serious health issue and needs to be changed for its own sake. I will try to argue that, it is our everyday living and eating habits that influence the way we look in the mirror and this caloric imbalance and lack of exercise is what needs to be changed. “An excess of energy intake over expenditure leads to storage of energy in the form of fat” (474.) A simple calculation stated in “Caloric Imbalance and Public Health Policy” written by Koplan and Dietz. After a survey conducted between 1977 and 1978 and 1994 to 1996, the U.S. Dept.
Benefits of Weight Training in Today’s Society Today’s society and possibly always people have had an obsession with body image. Ironically the American population is in an epidemic due to obesity rates and poor health related to diet and exercise. One simple solution to this problem along with proper diet and exercise is resistance or weight training. Not only is this an answer to our obesity problem, it also benefits our society in a voluminous number of ways. In an unfeasible attempt I will try to cover the extraordinary number of benefits of weight training within this paper.
The reason for why governments in developing countries sometimes are unable or unwilling to implement polices that create favorable conditions for economic growth boils down to two main reasons: social issues and political issues. Political issues are just as multifaceted as the social issues. Due to corrupt governments and regimes the lawlessness spreads throughout the developing nation like wildfire. Political issues revolve around the basic needs of a nation such as simple, yet, necessary infrastructure of schools, hospitals, septic tanks, etc. The necessity of public goods is vital for a developing country to survive, maintain, and become what we consider today, a developed country.
Introduction The rapid increase of overweight and obese people in the United States has been described as an “epidemic” (U.S. government), but people still do nothing or are not worried enough to stop this up going problem. Morgan Spurlock is an north American cineaste who filmed the documentary “Super Size me”. The documentary daily narrates his 30 day Mc Donald’s diet and the consequences that it had on the health and physical appearance of Spurlock. Furthermore, it also interview people in the streets and experts in order to gain credibility and have a stronger impacts in the viewer opinion. Nevertheless the documentary is extremely biased, it makes the fast food companies looks like enemies and it doesn’t even give a point of view which could go against his ideas.
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.
As shown by the statistics that he presents, Type 2 diabetes has greatly increased lately as a result of obesity , which has led to the spending of an incredible amount of money towards its treatment. Basically the message that David Zinczenko passes through this article is that things have to change in order to decrease the negative health and economically related problems. We collectively need to do something about it. On the other hand, Radly Balko , the author of the article “ What you eat is your business “ presents the issue from a totally different point of view. Just by reading the title of the article we can tell his position which is more about personal responsibility rather than collective.
The truths that I am referring to are the health hazards that were and still are well known to the elite manufacturers and the major health organizations in which they fund. Does it surprise you to know that fast food corporations are monetarily beneficial to the US? Governmental monetary greediness is being piggybacked by the lack of care and compassion for the citizens of our country. Combine this with the insulting degradation of the average American’s intelligence by many of the hierarchy in office. This is where I believe the accountability should begin.
America Is Hungry Martin Luther King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Hunger, though it may not be widely known, is an ongoing issue in the United States. It is known everywhere that obesity is a huge problem in America, but the opposite is also true. Many people living in the United States, especially in the South, live in food conscious homes. No one should be in hunger in the United States.