Bad Eating Habits

Parents walk out of the doctor’s office with their kids, they have been told the news of their children’s health concerns. They are at risk of getting diabetes and high blood pressure from being overly obese for their age. As their parents are driving they discuss their kid’s health situation, trying to figure out why they’re obese if they eat perfectly healthy for being a kid with a kid-speed metabolism. While they’re arguing they drive in to the golden arch and stop at the black box that asks, “Welcome to McDonalds may I take your order” and as they argue they order their kids each a Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, hot fudge sundae with large fries and a diet coke. As the man pays for the meal his wife is arguing how they only eat what’s best for

They work hard to protect their kids and teach them about the bad things they need to watch out from like drugs, alcohol and even stranger danger but the one thing they fail at protecting them from, are health concerns. Parents are supposed to advocate their kids eating choices and stop them from harming themselves and their health. When parents fail at advising their kids of good eating habits they put their well-being at jeopardy. It becomes sadder to hear that parents have become too lazy to stop it. Nowadays if a parent doesn’t want to cook a nice meal they go a few blocks down and pick something up at a nearby fast food joint. The excuse they use today is ridiculous, because they don’t want to cook they aren’t giving their kids the nutritional value they need. Society tends to forget the fact that parents are in charge of their kids and what decisions to make and yet they still think the blame for obesity in children should be put on the companies. Wolfson and her comrades stated, “Parents play the primary role in influencing and guiding their children and, indeed, have a vested legal responsibility to do so” (Wolfson et al. 75). Something in today’s society that is ignored. Not only do parents not choose to cook but also don’t try to help in fixing bad habits. Kokkonen states, “the guideline is that parents play a key role in children’s fatness, but it

People also believe that they are the cause behind obesity increasing because there are a lot of fast food buildings being built near neighborhoods. Davis states, “communities are beginning to look to zoning regulations as a means to curb the influence of restaurants serving fattening, high-caloric food at great speed and low prices” (Davis 259). People want to make a case blaming the companies because they are creating more buildings near homes but in no way have the companies forced customers inside their buildings or drive through and demanded they buy their product. It goes with the same concept of malls and shopping centers, they are there for the ones who choose and want to enter, restaurants share the same notion. Nobody is forced to enter a restaurant yet still blame them for being