world today. Diseases related to unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking, poor diet, and GMO’s are rampant in developed countries. While, trying to unearth the truth about unhealthy habits, the ideal posed in this paper has most health professionals and government officers have been struggling to answer. It is morally correct to have the government regulate personal choices on the above raised problems. As mentioned early, mortality rate caused by unhealthy habits is staggering. The leading
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What causes obesity in America? Jason absolutely loved to eat food, and frequently, his meals consisted of twice the recommended serving size. He was overweight as a child, with his weight rapidly increasing as he aged. By the age of twenty-two, he had reached the point of obesity, which hindered most of his physical abilities and ruined his social life. He woke up for work every day, struggling to stand up from his bed. Exhausted and breathless, he garnered the strength to stand up and make his
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Negative Impacts of Fast Food America is one the countries that have the most oversize population in the world and every day one of four Americans visits fast food restaurants. Fast food is usually packed with fat, sugar and salt which make it so unhealthy. There are many different reasons people go to fast food restaurants rather than eating at home. People eat at fast food restaurant because it is convenient, cheap, tasty and quick. We no longer live in the good old days when women would
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time watching television encourages the onset of obesity in viewers because it encourages unhealthy dietary habits, sedentary behavior and leads to slow metabolic rates. When watching TV programs and videos, most people, especially children, tend to eat. In fact, there are specific snacks designated for such a period such as potato chips and popcorn. Most of these meals are high-calorie or high-fat foods and soft drinks with little to no nutritional value for the consumer (Vandewater, Shim and
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Title Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity Author Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University and National Bureau of Economic Research Inas Rashad, Georgia State University Michael Grossman, City University of New York Graduate Center and National Bureau of Economic Research Introduction Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention of late. In less than thirty years
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Article Analysis - Changes in Childhood Food Consumption Patterns: A Cause for Concern in Light of Increasing Body Weights Article Analysis - Changes in Childhood Food Consumption Patterns: A Cause for Concern in Light of Increasing Body Weights The article talks about how the fast food industry is contributing to the growing number of cases of obesity among school children. The article explains that school children nowadays are not getting the
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How Unhealthy is McDonald’s? Do you love McDonald’s? Did you know that McDonald’s spends 4.1 million dollars on advertisements every year? This includes billboards, TV advertisements, magazines, newspapers, and coupons. If you love McDonald’s, do you know what is in the food? One Big Mac has a whopping 550 calories! That is almost equal to three pounds of carrots (556) calories. There is a documentary called Super Size Me, which is a movie about a man named Morgan Spurlock who tries to eat
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technology in these communities. In terms of access, many Latino communities do not have food security, a local supermarket, a nearby playground/park, community gardens or safe sidewalks (the State of Obesity, stateofobesity.org). Latino communities are mostly surrounded by bodegas and convenient stores. These types of stores do not provide healthy options and the restaurants that are around are for the most part fast-food restaurants. In fact,
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ironic that while I was reading about all these “unhealthy” food options, I was eating them. This obesity epidemic has carved its way so deep into our lives, there is possible room to improve, but it’s difficult to come up with some miracle solution to make it disappear. Kelley Brownell suggests that the legislature should get rid of food advertising especially ones pointed at children watching television and also eliminating soft drinks and unhealthy snacks from school vending machines (Newman,
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issue in the United States. It is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health or well-being. Children become overweight for a number of reasons. Some of the causes are genetic factors, lack of physical activity, eating unhealthy, medical illness, family and peer problems. Healthy eating and active living are major factors that can eliminate childhood obesity, or merely reduce the growing numbers that obviously exist in society today. “Over the past three decades, since
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