Poverty obesity due to widely accessible fast food choices, that are both cheap and available to everyone, but it also causes a large amount of starvation in other countries as well. Poverty, food prices, and hunger are inextricably linked. Poverty causes hunger, but not all poor people are hungry, it is almost all who are hungry are poor,” says The Hunger Project. There are a majority who live with hunger and malnourishment because they simply cannot afford to buy enough food or supplies to grow their own foods. The most heavily burdened by the consequences of poverty would be located in rural households. Poverty in rural communities limit the ability to invest in its own developments.
With a population of over 46 million in the U.S. and 15 percent of it living in poverty, it is a possibility that he may have been right. “The lowest percentage in poverty since we started counting was 11.1 percent in 1973. The rate climbed
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Why do so many people go towards this as their only food source? America has a higher percentage of fast food than any other country in the world today. On average, a single American consumes more than $1200 worth of fast food each year. Mark Bittman, writer for The New York Times, says “This is just plain wrong. In fact it isn’t cheaper to eat highly processed food: a typical order for a family of four — for example, two Big Macs, a cheeseburger, six chicken McNuggets, two medium and two small fries, and two medium and two small sodas — costs the McDonald’s, a hundred steps from where I write, about $28”. Fast food is the reason why the U.S. is so obese. People in the U.S. continue to waste money at fast food because it is “cheap, delicious, and quick” but in reality don’t understand the effects it has on their body: obesity, diabetes, even heart problems. Even though it has all these terrible effects on the human body, in the US, this is all people in poverty can