Analysis Of Mark Bittman's Is The Junk Food Really Cheaper?

Because of the improvement of living standard, people’s demand for the food has changed. Healthy food could assist human to build a better body. It is common to notice that the reason that there are so many overweight, cardiac diseases, and type 2 diabetes because people can’t afford to eat healthy. When most of the families are buying the food, they are not just jugging about tight schedule, they are also cosidering about their budgets. According to Mark Bittman’s article, “ Is the Junk Food Really Cheaper?”, there are more low- income families attend to the fast food restaurants instead of cook at their home. Mark Bittman proved that the junk food isn’t really cheaper than the healthy food. Mark Bittman argued that everyone can afford to buy food, and it was the people’s choice to decide what they are going to eat.

Mark used the real evidence to support the audiences his main idea. “Two Big Macs, a cheeseburger, six chicken McNuggets, two medium and two small fries, and two medium and two small sodas, costs twenty- eight dollar at the McDonald, and a roasted chicken with vegetables and milk only cost about fourteen dollars. If people still think the food is expensive, people can also change a meal of rice and canned beans with bacon, green peppers and onions. The price is only nine dollars.”(Is Junk Food Really Cheaper, second paragraph) By looking at this information, the readers could figure out that cooking at home is actually cheaper than going to the fast food restaurants such as Wendy’s and McDonlad. Food calories are also an example that Mark used to convince his audience that eating healthy food is worth. A problem that Mark Bittman had stated was that there are many low-income family went to the fast food