Argumentative Essay: What Is Obesity Doing To America

What is Obesity Doing to America Obesity is becoming a problem around the world wouldn’t everybody like to help solve the problem of it. America today has such a bad eating habit all around the world and it does not help that the percentage of obesity is going up in the world. In this essay the auhor will be giving you advice of how to solve the problem of obesity and what are different ways we can help people that are already obese. Since 1970 people all around America are becoming more and more obese and craving fast food more and more and the percentage is gaining every year in obesity. The goal at the end of this paper is to have the audience wanting to help the problem of obesity were having around the world so let’s get started. If

Some people make it seem like obesity is the eaters fault in fact in It’s A Portion Distortion That makes America Fat Shannon Browniee states,”Mostly young single males, who ate as such restaurants as often 20 times a month a month. In fact 30 percent of Taco Bell’s customers accounted for 70 percent of its sales” (33). This shows that it is not always the fast foods fault but also us because we use food as a stress reliever. At the same time it is not all the way the customers fault it is also the restaurants fault also. In Don’t Blame The Eater David Zinczenko states,” One company’s web site lists its chicken salad as containing 150 calories; the almonds and noodles that come with it (and additional 190 calories) are listed separately. Add a serving of the 280-calorie dressing, and you’ve got a healthy lunch alternative that n at 620 calories. But that’s not all. Read the small print on the back of the dressing packet and you’ll realize it actually contains 2.5 servings. If you pour what you’ve been served, you’re suddenly up around 1,040 calories, which is half of the the government's recommended daily calorie intake. And that doesn’t take into account that 450- calorie super size coke” (45). This shows the reason people choose to eat those healthy offers that you give them but when the restaurants really know that the calories that they put on their are not

Some way we can stop this is by putting healthier fast food places more than junk food places. Also show more ads of healthy eating habits instead of of all those big mac,pizza,double cheeseburgers,chicken nuggets,bacon burgers,fries,ice cream,cake,brownies,cupcakes,chip,cookies,and sodas. These changes believe it or not will help the population of America change the way they look at healthy food and junk food. They will look at all those ads and see how good it will do there body and how there body will look after eating all those healthy food and show what can happen if they keep going down the bad track of eating junk food what can happen to their body. Showing how their body will change when they eat those healthy food will decrease the population of obesity and increase the population of eating healthier food. When they finally decide to do this change America will start seeing the change of percentage and the change of the people's weight and also the change of the junk food places decreasing all around America. In Don't Blame The Eater by David Zinczenko he gives his personal experience when he notes when his parents split up he had to choose between mcdonalds and pizza hut everyday at lunch and dinner and by the age 15 he weighed two hundred and twelve pounds and he was