Fast Food Persuasive Essay

Fast Food

Fast food is the largest growing product in the United States. Would warning labels on these products save people from growing larger as well? The famous Hawaiian musician, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, died at age 38 in 1997 weighing as much as 758 pounds. During his music career, he was in and out of the hospital due to complications of breathing and other instabilities. Fiver years later, an ex-McDonald's employee from Brazil sued McDonald's for making him fat. He gained 65 while he worked for them for over twelve years. He won the case and won $17,500 as a response from McDonald's being the cause of his weight gain. Unhealthy fast food should be sold with a warning label because multiple health issues are caused by obesity, fast foods

A typical fast food meal would be a big-mac with large fries and maybe a large coke to wash it all down. There could be “1,500 calories from … one [fast-food] meal alone”. A daily normal “calorie recommendation for Americans is 1,500-1,800 calories” (OAC). If fast foods had a warning label on all unhealthy foods, telling their customers exactly what they were eating and exactly what it would do to their health, it could reduce obesity deaths. Although, people say they already know exactly what they are eating and eat it anyways. A warning label could wake someone up, force them to force themselves to drive to a local Sprouts instead of a McDonald's. Warning labels will increase self and health awareness. The amount of people that die each year is “about 2.8 million from complications of being obese”. People would have less trouble digesting their food and less trouble breathing if they took in less sodium (Pro Con). America is lucky to have fun and convenient food around every corner to stop by whenever hungry, but fast food should not be a habit. It’s estimated “by 2030 [that] 44 million Americans [would have] developed diabetes” from the amount of sodium that is in modern day foods (Pro Con). If fast foods had to sell their unhealthy products warning how much sodium was in it and how sodium affected you, people may slow down on the everyday fast

Fast food is “purposely located near high schools” to lure in teenagers who just got out of a long, hard, and stressful day at school, which makes them hungry. (Chapter 3, Fast Food). The fast food industry targets teens and adults who need a quick and cheap meal after school or work. Fast food is so popular because people want “substance and pleasure” for a good price (How Should Fast Food Be Marketed?). Adding a warning label could help people re-think their comfort food. Nowadays, people are so “overscheduled and overcommitted” that fast food and other sweets are their comfort foods to where they don’t think about it since it’s easy to get (OAC). I believe if fast foods came with a warning label, people would take better care of their own