Persuasive Essay On Nutrition And Obesity

The statement “you are what you eat” could be the truest statement there is. If you eat nothing but non-nutritious, deficient food, your body is going to be malnourished and deficient. Throughout America, there is a huge tendency of our people to eat anything other than the things that are good for us. As a nation, it is important that we become educated on what we 're doing to our bodies and how it is affecting our health. In order to put a stop to the problem of poor nutrition and obesity, we need to examine the causes, and effects, and some possible solutions to this issue. Our nation is eating too much of the wrong thing, and not nearly enough of the right thing as carry on lazily on a day to day basis. Man-made/processed foods combined with an indoor lifestyle with little exercise are mostly the reasons behind exhaustion and obesity epidemics. A major cause of this is that we’re misinformed about nutrition and the foods we’re eating. Most people wouldn’t know that 51% of our meals need to be raw in order to receive all of the vitamins and nutrients because with cooked food, the immune system reacts to it like a toxin. In addition, most food is 5 to 6 days old by the time it has reached our supermarkets, shipped from country to country, with nutrient deterioration. The packages of our foods lead us to believe that it is “fat free”, and this could be …show more content…
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