There is no doubt that American waistline sizes are growing at an epidemic rate. You do not need to look far to see how prevalent the health epidemic in America is. Recent studies have shown that seventy-five percent of males and sixty-seven percent of females over the age of 25 are overweight or obese in America(Cha). That means for every four males you can expect three of those four to be fat or obese, if they’re over the age of 25. This plague is getting out of hand! Can you even imagine the number of Americans’ lives that have been reaped by this grim horror? Can you even imagine how many loved ones have been prematurely taken away by the Grim Reaper because of this vile curse?
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A person can argue that Americans are fat because of their high consumption rate of fast food. But why do Americans consume so much fast food? Americans consume fast food because it’s cheap, quick, and delicious. The most important factor is the price; most obese/fat people are below the poverty line(Levine), so if fast food was expensive, then they would consume a lot less of it. If Americans consumed a lot less fast food, then this epidemic could cease to exist. If the American government taxed fast food more harshly, it would encourage Americans to eat less fast food; the American government is doing the complete opposite of what you would expect a government should be doing in this scenario: The American government is subsidizing the materials used to make fast food (Kenner). The subsidy on the materials used to make fast food leads to cheaper prices for fast food. This is a way of encouraging people to consume more fast food, because it’s so cheap! How can we blame Americans for consuming fast food if their government themselves encourage their consumption of fast …show more content…
Most people can argue America is fat because of their lack of exercise. But how can we expect a typical obese American(someone below the poverty line)[Levine] to have time to exercise when they have to work two jobs just to pay their bills(Levine)? I personally know a lot of students who have parents that both have to work two jobs a day, to just make by, most of them work from 7A.M. to 11P.M.: These people do not have time to exercise, in reality, they only have enough time to come home, sleep, and spend a maximum of one hour on extra stuff. How can you expect these people to make time out of their already full day to exercise, wouldn’t they choose to spend that time with their children? Do you expect them to be sleep deprived everyday (which is also really, really bad) just so they can exercise and spend time with their loved ones? How can you really expect them to make healthy meals if they are in such a time constraint? They’re in a huge time constraint due to their two jobs, but why do they need to have two jobs, to just survive in America? They need to have two jobs just to survive in America due to how low their wages are compared to how expensive everything is. Government is the entity that controls the minimum wage level; if government raised the minimum wage
We need to stop this tragedy from taking the lives of Americans, …show more content…
A person can argue that Americans are fat because of their high consumption rate of fast food. But why do Americans consume so much fast food? Americans consume fast food because it’s cheap, quick, and delicious. The most important factor is the price; most obese/fat people are below the poverty line(Levine), so if fast food was expensive, then they would consume a lot less of it. If Americans consumed a lot less fast food, then this epidemic could cease to exist. If the American government taxed fast food more harshly, it would encourage Americans to eat less fast food; the American government is doing the complete opposite of what you would expect a government should be doing in this scenario: The American government is subsidizing the materials used to make fast food (Kenner). The subsidy on the materials used to make fast food leads to cheaper prices for fast food. This is a way of encouraging people to consume more fast food, because it’s so cheap! How can we blame Americans for consuming fast food if their government themselves encourage their consumption of fast …show more content…
Most people can argue America is fat because of their lack of exercise. But how can we expect a typical obese American(someone below the poverty line)[Levine] to have time to exercise when they have to work two jobs just to pay their bills(Levine)? I personally know a lot of students who have parents that both have to work two jobs a day, to just make by, most of them work from 7A.M. to 11P.M.: These people do not have time to exercise, in reality, they only have enough time to come home, sleep, and spend a maximum of one hour on extra stuff. How can you expect these people to make time out of their already full day to exercise, wouldn’t they choose to spend that time with their children? Do you expect them to be sleep deprived everyday (which is also really, really bad) just so they can exercise and spend time with their loved ones? How can you really expect them to make healthy meals if they are in such a time constraint? They’re in a huge time constraint due to their two jobs, but why do they need to have two jobs, to just survive in America? They need to have two jobs just to survive in America due to how low their wages are compared to how expensive everything is. Government is the entity that controls the minimum wage level; if government raised the minimum wage