Essay On Health Diseases

Health diseases have become a rapidly growing epidemic in today’s society. Most people have begun to live a healthier life and avoid eating foods that are “bad” for them. Others are still naïve to the health risks fast food causes. But exactly what caused these diseases to become an epidemic?

Weight problems have been on the rise since the early 1900’s. Today, Americans are fatter than medical science says we should be, and weights are still increasing. While many other countries have experienced increases in obesity, no other developed country is quite as big as the United States. In the mid-1900’s, most of the food preparation was done by families who cooked their own meals. Now there is a mass production of food preparations so families no longer have to put much effort into making a meal for themselves. In 1965, married women who didn’t work spent at least two to three hours per day cooking and cleaning up from meals she made. In 1995, the same tasks take less than half the time. The switch from individual to mass preparation lowered the time price of food consumption and led to increased quantity and variety of foods consumed.

Soon these technologies that once helped make life simpler inadvertently made it a real struggle. David Rotman states that “as businesses generated more value from their workers, the country as a whole became richer, which fueled more economic activity and created even more jobs. Then, beginning in 2000, the lines diverge; productivity continues to rise robustly, but employment suddenly wilts. By 2011, a significant gap appears between the two lines, showing economic growth with no parallel increase in job creation” (Rotman). Mississippi, the poorest state in America, has the nation's highest obesit...

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...so raises your risk for coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other health problems.

In conclusion, there are many causes to the health disease epidemic that has plagued society. Technology played a key role in the beginning because it caused many people to lose their jobs and eventually go into poverty. The technologies make the processed foods we consume today that contain HFCS which is very dangerous to the human body if consumed regularly. These foods that contain this product are cheaper and more affordable to families with low income. The families who are obese or have serious health risks are lower income families. Obese children have opened the eyes of the world about the dangers of fast food. The First Lady started an initiative to try and reduce the number of overweight kids in America by having them eat right and go outside and play.