Fast Food Companies To Blame For Obesity Epidemic

I believe the fast food producers should be responsible for the obesity epidemic, just as much as the tobacco companies are responsible for being the number one death in America. Kelly Brownell states, “As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. (Article). Fast Food causes so many different issues among Americans, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, and so much more. Going through the Obesity PowerPoint slides it’s evident the increase in obesity rates throughout the years. No state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20% in the year 2010, and from there it increases with each year. (PowerPoint).
The article “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” brought together food producers, and talked about how to help the obesity epidemic. The prime focus was how to keep the food appetizing and addictive so that the consumers will …show more content…
Having a restaurant award people who have an obesity issue just shows you what our country has come to with this epidemic. Instead of trying to help the issue we are promoting it. For example, Blaire River was one of their top customers at Heart Attack Grille. At the age of 29, Blaire got pneumonia and ended up dying. They used his death to promote their restaurant saying, “ He has gotten the message out more with his death.” People that weigh over 350 pounds get to eat for free. One of their customers, Ernie Hart, is over 350 pounds, has been in a coma, had multiple heart surgeries, and a heart attack and still eats there, even when his cardiologist forbids it. (Video) When a reporter asked Jon Basso, owner of Heart Attack Grille, if he felt any remorse for what he was doing, he said, “It would be a moral to stop; we already have blood on our hands.” This statement just shows one of the reasons we have such an epidemic, we know it’s bad but we can’t