Death! The number one killer. America is considered the heaviest nation in the world, and that’s a problem that can be easily fixed. By simply eating healthier, and one way to start that is by eating a healthy breakfast. Anna Hodgekiss states that “people who eat a healthy breakfast with eggs, toast, O.J, and things with a high nutrition content, have lost more weight throughout a year period, than those who don’t eat or eat an unhealthy sugary breakfast. Certain foods that are considered a necessity in today’s society are unhealthy to consumers because they contain large amounts of sugar and calories leading to health problems. But that isn’t the way it used to be and isn’t the way it should be today. Unhealthy eating is a main cause for obesity in today’s society, and is why people must eat healthy.
America! Considered the greatest nation in the world. It is also considered the heaviest nation in the world. Daily News reports that “scientists have calculated that there is over 3.9 million tons of extra weight in the people of America. Asia accounts for more than 61 percent of the world’s population, but only accounts for 13 percent of its obesity. But why is this true? Why is America the heaviest nation in the world? Well, it’s all because of sugar. Whole body research states that “there is a natural parasite in your body called Candida”, a parasite that starts to infest and take over when eating too much sugar.
In 1950, when sugar started to be used heavily in foods, people started to notice weight gain while consuming these products and they all stopped buying them. This quickly irritated
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...should be able to create, make, and sell products that are healthy for the body.
Certain foods that are considered a necessity in today’s coulter are unhealthy to consumers because they contain large amounts of sugar and calories leading to health problems. But that isn’t the way it used to be and isn’t the way it should be today. We as Americans have the ability to be the healthiest nation in the world, but we choose otherwise. Back 3 to 400 years ago, people had to rely on their sources which were fruits from trees and vegetables that grew from the ground. Not a cup of noodles full of salt, or a processed piece of meat from Taco Bell. All in all, we need to open our eyes and realize that we need to eat healthy and live life happily, not stressed out and depressed. America! Considered the greatest nation in the world, why not also be considered the healthiest?
Obesity has been a growing problem in America. With the leading cause of it is in our diet and the kind of foods we part take of everyday and they lifestyles that we all choose to live. The everyday habits and practices, that have been imbedded our every day routines. The American routine has become so lazy and self reliant on getting what we want and need at an instant that it has caused us to be over weight. We have all become so used to getting instant gratification, that it has been imbedded in our head that, why work for to get our food when we can go to a restaurant of our choosing and just pick out food. Especially with such a fast growing society that we live in everything moves so fast, We are all expected to keep up with
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
The American diet is full of on-the-go amenities from an array of different meals; however, is this fuel actually causing harm to the body in the long run? What is in the American diet that sets American’s health apart from other parts of the world? The documentary Forks Over Knives states that “We spend 2.2 trillion dollars a year on health care, over five times more than the defense budget. In fact, we pay more per person for healthcare than any industrialized country in the world, yet we’re sicker than ever” (Forks Over Knives). Studies are finding that the excessive consumption of sweeteners, meats, and dairy products are many of the leading causes of American’s health failure.
In “Bad Food? Tax it, and Subsidize Vegetables”, Mark Bittman suggests that the people of America should stop eating unhealthy foods so often. In the article, Bittman tells his audience that people have “heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the standard American Diet” (page 35). He also states that eating healthy can result to a better health care system saving millions of lives. The big issue is Americans eating unhealthy every day, but proposing a plan to help stop it from happening.
While the culture still seems to view drinking as a negative substance, culture does not view the consumption of a soda, or, sweets as a totally negative thing. Todays culture does not view eating or drinking high fructose corn syrup nearly as negative as drinking. In the early 1900s, America was mainly the only culture of society affected by drinking. In todays society, not only is America severely affected by obesity, but the problem is not limited to just America; many countries in todays society are affected by this epidemic. In the 1820s, farmers could turn their corn into pork or alcohol. Today, you can turn corn into anything from chicken nuggets, and hamburgers to emulsifiers and Nutraceuticals. In 1985, the consumption of all added sugars, has clambered from 128 pounds to 158 pounds per individual.
Studies have linked obesity to many things from ear infections, to pollution, to air-conditioning, to socializing with obese people. The reason Americans are obese is because of the increasing luxury available to them. Obesity is a rising problem in the United States, and with all the privileges given to its citizens, the country has become increasingly lazy. With portion sizes rising and physical activity decreasing, it is easy to see how obesity rates have skyrocketed.
Unfortunately, this shouldn’t be a huge surprise to us by now, because let’s be honest, when we go into a supermarket we usually always go for what’s on sale, or what seems to be the cheapest at the moment. This isn’t specifically targeted to a group of people but to people in general. We have tendency of buying the cheapest foods possible, whether they are processed or frozen, because we constantly want to buy the most amount of food while saving money and time. The bad thing is that now not only are we harming our own health, but we are also harming the health of our children. In case you try to say otherwise, according to this article, “Americans spend about ninety percent of their food budget on processed foods,” ("How Industrial Food Impacts Your Health," n.d.). Of course, these statistics don’t take into account every single person within the United States. Some people don’t have the luxury of buying unprocessed foods, because they could
There is no doubt that obesity has taken its seat as one of the top disease that strikes the world today. In America, obesity has now spread through the country leaving 2 out of 3 adults either overweight or obese, and worldwide 1.5 billion are overweight or obese (Overweight). The cause of this disease stems from multiple reasons such as the increase in modern food production, putting out ample amounts of food causing the prices for meat, groceries, and especially junk food to plummet. Subsequently, Americans especially were more inclined to purchase more food and showed an increase in the average American house hold food intake by 1,000 more calories a day (Dreifus).
Filipovic, Jill. “To Save Americans’ Health, Government Must Intervene In Food Industry.” Aljazeera America. n.p November 17, 2013. Web. 27 March 2014.
America’s food source has altered drastically in the last century and so has the health of many. Americans used to thrive on natural foods for nutritional value, now Americans thrive on processed and manufactured food for just for convenience. Food companies have changed the very way we view nutrition. They have taken chemistry to a whole new level and added what they want it to what we now call food even if that harms our bodies in the long run. Food companies have also caused many hard working farmers to lose their jobs. These food companies have lost insight as to what is truly important in a food product and don’t care if that means taking someone else’s job.
Today, 78.1 million American adults and 12.5 million children are obese. Obesity in America is a unstoppable epidemic. Since the 1960s, the number of obese adults have doubled and the number of obese children have tripled. Because of America’s obesity problems, Surgeon General David Satcher issued a report saying; "The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight," said that obesity "have reached epidemic proportions" in America. Obesity in America has no doubt reached epidemic proportions. Since 2001, America has been the most obese country in the world. This essay discusses what obesity is and how it is affecting today’s America by answers the following questions:
Did you know, that obesity and overweight account for nearly one of every 10 American deaths, and they also drain our society of $223 billion a year? This simply means that obesity is the cause of most deaths in America. In order to understand obesity and the harm it causes those who have it, we must understand its causes as stated by Harvard Health Publications. Since there has been a change in the way we eat, leisure time activities, and in nature of work, these make the biggest contribution to obesity in America. Some scientists are still struggling to understand.
Besides the obvious culprits of high sugar levels in American food products such as the all too popular ice creams, cakes, and sodas that Americans love, there are also foods that people wouldn’t think of as high in sugar. Sugar is in everything we eat from the ketchup in the fridge to the baby food we feed children. Sometimes a product boasts about being “sugar free” yet the label tells evidence of certain sugar substitutes that can act no different than table sugar in our bodies once ingested and metabolized. If sugar is in most of what we eat, then how does that affect Americans? It could be inferred that not only does sugar affect entire ethnic and socioeconomic populations but it also impacts the health of age groups (i.e. children, adults,
The sugar law is responsible for the high rate of obesity in the UK and in the countries colonized by the British, as is the case in the USA, to this day Americans suffer the consequences of this heinous law with obesity rates reaching an alarming 70% of the population.
America is one of the largest countries in the world, and the population is one of the largest also; but not in numbers, unless those numbers are on a scale and coincide with the amount of excess fat that is on the average American. In asking why Americans are so overweight, the fast food industry is not to blame entirely. Although Americans consume more fast food than any other nation and the mass of the population reflects this fact, no one is forcing anyone to eat fast food. Americans eat so much fast food because they are lazy, hurried, addicted, and financially downtrodden. Because of these lifestyles and misfortune, America has become overweight-- an epidemic for which there does not seem to be a cure.