A vending machine for example is fast food which is bad for health. Most of the food that surrounds us can be bad but we need to make good choices. Overeating habit is not the best answer to healthy lifestyle. Velychko 4 Prose, Francine. "The Wages of Sin."
This means that they need different types of nutrition’s. For example since their metabolism tend to burn the food faster they need some type of heavy food but not too heavy so soon their metabolism won’t be able to break it down; which will cause them to gain weight. Pollan does point out in his book how fast food is not very healthy and how it is a poor quality of food. I am here to correct what he said towards fast food. Fast food can be good for you if you eat the fast food correctly.
This makes both groups vulnerable to obesity as they indulge in unplanned and bad eating habits. According to O’ Dea (2008) these health determinants have been attributed to the poor community education on prevention, treatment and control of obesity. This emphasizes the need to change such trends in Australia. Focus on determinants of health such as physical environments need to be reformed. This is because they contribute to obesity being a consequence of endogenous lifestyles which lead to impaired health conditions (Amarasinghe et al., 2009).
In paragraph nine “Don’t Eat the Flan”, Critser mentioned that “Telling people to not eat too much food is counterproductive. Worse, it leads to ‘stigmatization’, which can lead to eating disorders, low self-esteem, and bad body image. Though the consequences of being overweight, numerous and well documented, are dangerous, little if any evidence supports the notion that it is dangerous to stigmatize unhealthy behavior.” In the physical, being overweight will cause many kinds of disease, such as endocrine disorders, diabetes, and heart disease. While along a search says that the top three causes of death in the United State are currently cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and heart disease; obesity seems push us closer to death. It is dangerous, even people have been helped out of the obesity; the obesity will leave traces on their body.
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P America’s Obesity Crisis Obesity has plagued America. Poor food choices and sedentary lifestyles are two accelerants which continue to fuel this fire. I view this as a lack of responsibility of ones self. As adults, we need to be held accountable for the choices we make. While fast food is convenient and sometimes even more affordable than preparing a meal at home, overindulgence in such behavior is directly linked to adverse health problems.
Unhealthy calories come from unhealthy farms. The system we currently follow is obiously tweaked, and Pollan calls out for a change, but that change must come from the eaters themselves. The food system we currently follow is focused on supplying large amounts of food for a cheaper price, and that usually means that it is not the healthiest. Our plummeting health is the price eaters must endure just to save that extra dollar, or to get a “buy one get one free” product. Never have I seen a bag of spinach or a head of broccoli that was advertised as “buy one get one free.” This is due to the fact that if all of a sudden healthy foods were as cheap as unhealthy foods, people would “vote” differently.
This is the same case to the less fortunate who tend to eat more food, when more of it is on offer. Financially, people should seek intervention measures when confronted by adverse health conditions. Afterward, the poor may perish as they lack resources to seek medical attention from health professionals. Economic factors are the determinants of the food one consumes. The fact, that the rich will still get healthy food while the poor survive on low quality foods.
Shyanne Hill ENG101-200 13 Nov. 2014 Persuasive Essay Malnourishment in the United States Malnourishment in the United States is caused mainly by the consumption of unhealthy, cheap foods that are low in nutrition and staffed with calories and fat. This eventually leads to obesity. As surprising as it may seem, one of the factors affecting obesity is poverty. As a matter of fact, there can be no doubts that poverty and obesity are interconnected. Provided more attention is focused on this, the health of the Americans can be improved.
In fact, healthier food can be a bit more expensive but with the help of the food stamp program should make it easier for low income families to eat a healthier lifestyle. One of the reasons I truly think that obesity in children exists is because there is a lack of education. Parents need to be taught healthy alternatives for their children. One of the problems with being of low income is that you have to learn new strategies of survival and that is survival of life in general. I would certainly not label that a high volume of obesity children are from low income and uneducated