Throughout the world eating habits differ from each other. Within western society the eating habits can be considered unhealthy compared to the rest of the world. The western diet can lead to obesity. It mainly affects African Americans and Hispanics in low income areas because they can afford it. Childhood obesity has also become a problem due to location and quality of food. Obesity also affects the economy it causes the government billions of dollars in health insurance yearly. In some cases people wonder are consumers the one to be blamed or is it the government. Is it because of the insufficiency of good nutrition and physical activity? How is the western diet affecting Americans? Because of the western diet many American
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The western diet promotes type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease with food high in fat, sugar, and salt and is nutrient deficient. We think the foods are great for us. In school from kindergarten they taught us milk is great for you it build strong bones. We also learned that eating meat is the best source of protein. if you want to get strong and healthy, you need to eat meat. But after watching forks over knives I know that’s not the truth; this diet increases your risk for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, sleep apnea, diseases of the liver, heart failure, and osteoporosis. If we change our diet or control our consumption of unhealthy foods it may reverse the negative impact of the western diet on Americans. The western diet causes many Americans to become sick from diseases that come with obesity. I think we can learn from the rest of the world and change for the better. Asian countries like China and Japan that mainly eat healthy had low risk of prostate cancer and heart disease .But countries that adapt the western diet see a change in their health. In forks over knives China adopted the western diet and they started to see a change in weight gain more cases of cardiovascular and
The western diet promotes type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease with food high in fat, sugar, and salt and is nutrient deficient. We think the foods are great for us. In school from kindergarten they taught us milk is great for you it build strong bones. We also learned that eating meat is the best source of protein. if you want to get strong and healthy, you need to eat meat. But after watching forks over knives I know that’s not the truth; this diet increases your risk for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, sleep apnea, diseases of the liver, heart failure, and osteoporosis. If we change our diet or control our consumption of unhealthy foods it may reverse the negative impact of the western diet on Americans. The western diet causes many Americans to become sick from diseases that come with obesity. I think we can learn from the rest of the world and change for the better. Asian countries like China and Japan that mainly eat healthy had low risk of prostate cancer and heart disease .But countries that adapt the western diet see a change in their health. In forks over knives China adopted the western diet and they started to see a change in weight gain more cases of cardiovascular and