According to the data published in CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), about 34.9% of adults and 17% of Americans are suffering from obesity. If the eating pattern of Americans is not changed on time, the rate of obesity is likely to increase in the future. The industrialized based farming has rapidly taken over the traditional farming which undeniably, is the major reason for obesity as most of the Americans allow themselves to be fully depended on processed food. American local farmers should put an effort to grow different type of crops in order to provide healthy plant-based diet to Americans by competing with industry based mono-crop farming.
Graceful Nature. Additionally, huge acres of land in America is being used to grow single type of crops which is affecting the nature. For example, Iowa is considered as one of the most fertile land of America but in Iowa alone 9.1 million acres of land is used to grow single type of
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Similarly, growing obesity is the burning health problem of today’s Americans. Americans are spending billions of dollar in curing these preventable chronic diseases instead of changing their poor eating habits. Though, America is considered as one of the richest country in the world, the demand of physician and doctors are in growing everyday due to the increase in preventable but non-curable diseases. The concept of pant based died has recently been introduced in USA as a solution to the increasing obesity of Americans. As per the, research performed by Fuhrman, the effective way to reduce weight in a healthy manner is the intake of more vegetables, whole grains, fruits and beans. But the King corn documentary, shows the preference of fast food and unhealthy diet by Americans which is completely based on crops derived products from sweetener to bread. Fuhrman in Eat to Live has also overt the fact that only taking vitamin supplements cannot make a person healthy if there is absence of nutritional food in their