Along with the several types of fast-food chain advertisements, comes the fast food chain’s ease of availability. It seems as if there is a fast-food restaurant located on every corner. This even includes fast-food easily available while purchasing gas. “It comes as no surprise that the availability of food has an effect as well” noted Goode regarding the availability of food and how it too influences the amount of food the average person consumes (465). A prime example is around the holidays, when there are tons of different dishes cooked and ready for the tasting. More than likely, people will eat off it all day since the food is so easily accessible. As long as the food is in sight, people tend to want to have just a taste. The researchers
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One can now visit places like Jack-In-The-Box and have multiple types of foods in different ethnicities. “Having more choices also appears to make people eat more” (Goode 465). A family can order a hamburger meal, tacos and a nacho meal, and a teriyaki bowl with egg rolls on the side, and it all can be purchased from the one location. Maybe just the one person in the family has a taste for a variety of things. A person is more inclined to buy what is easily within reach, and as long as the fast-food chains offer different flavors with a discounted price, the consumer will be more prone to purchase the product for their children or family. These are all factors leading to the cause of childhood obesity. “For the food industry, incessant, sophisticated marketing has the desired effect. Advertising of foods and the number of foods influences children’s preferences, purchase request, and diets” (Ashton). It is disheartening to express that not everything that we incline to be drawn to is good for us. Many foods that are suggested and advertised to children are unhealthy, and has placed children in jeopardy for serious health problems. In the image of children and health warnings, provided to the right, demonstrates that not all of the different foods and the many suggested foods offered by fast-food chains and food manufacturers are good to consume. Therefore, this further impacts the fact that “fast-food chains and food manufacturers must bear some of the shame for childhood obesity,” and it reaching its all-time high (Goode
One can now visit places like Jack-In-The-Box and have multiple types of foods in different ethnicities. “Having more choices also appears to make people eat more” (Goode 465). A family can order a hamburger meal, tacos and a nacho meal, and a teriyaki bowl with egg rolls on the side, and it all can be purchased from the one location. Maybe just the one person in the family has a taste for a variety of things. A person is more inclined to buy what is easily within reach, and as long as the fast-food chains offer different flavors with a discounted price, the consumer will be more prone to purchase the product for their children or family. These are all factors leading to the cause of childhood obesity. “For the food industry, incessant, sophisticated marketing has the desired effect. Advertising of foods and the number of foods influences children’s preferences, purchase request, and diets” (Ashton). It is disheartening to express that not everything that we incline to be drawn to is good for us. Many foods that are suggested and advertised to children are unhealthy, and has placed children in jeopardy for serious health problems. In the image of children and health warnings, provided to the right, demonstrates that not all of the different foods and the many suggested foods offered by fast-food chains and food manufacturers are good to consume. Therefore, this further impacts the fact that “fast-food chains and food manufacturers must bear some of the shame for childhood obesity,” and it reaching its all-time high (Goode