Fast Food's Impact on Youth Health: A McDonald's Case Study

The McDonalds Company has come to the limelight as one of the fast foods outlet causing health problems to the young people. The youngsters have taken the matter to the judiciary to contest for justice. They have also engaged the media which has publicized the company in that respect. Nonetheless, it is not McDonalds Company alone. The writer confesses that he once dealt in that venture and is remorseful about the woes bedeviling McDonalds.
The author recounts that his family did not stand and his parents no longer stay together. He knows not about his father’s whereabouts but the mother spends a low profile life working under tough conditions to make ends meet. McDonalds and other few restaurants notably were the only facilities offering services at cheaper prices in America.

He was enlightened about various nutritional matters thanks to his participation in the Health Magazine. The writer also regrets that other youths may never change their lives for the better. They still face the menace of catching obesity and other serious diseases associated with unchecked feeding habits. As long as the fast foods still offer foods without information about what they contain, the youths still remain vulnerable to numerous ailments, given that the foods are affordable. The problem is widespread and even those who are not infected are affected.
In the recent past, America only experienced few cases of children who are diagnosed with diabetes, almost negligible. Today the numbers are frightening because almost half of the children are found to be diabetic. The health facilities have carried out statistics and a good percentage of young people face the risk of perishing due to this very serious sugar disease. Initially children who were reported to suffer from diabetes had the problem caused by the genetic inheritance, whereby one or some of their kinsmen suffered or was a carrier of the disease causing