The food industry uses advertisements to persuade the consumer to buy specifically unhealthy items like burgers and sugary drinks. Obesity has become a growing concern in modern society and part of that reason is because the food industry. Marketing these food items with a very cheap price will cause the consumer to buy and consume more food and beverages than is needed. However there are healthy choices within the food industry such as vegetables and fruits that farmers produce. Sadly there is just more production of unhealthy foods than healthier foods that society has no resistance but to purchase what the food industry produces.
The food industry has played a major role in what society and individuals choose to eat and how much they consume. …show more content…
Despite individual’s best intentions, most repeatedly find themselves eating large amounts of unhealthy foods, despite knowing that it is causing harm to their health. In the reading, “In Your Face: How the Food Industry Drives Us to Eat.” Author Bonnie Liebman proposes the question dealing with addictive foods to professor Kelly Brownell on what do you mean by reward pathways? Brownell says, “There are pathways in the brain that get activated when we experience pleasure, and drugs of abuse like heroin hijack that system.”(487) The reason as to why this happens is because processed junk foods have such a powerful effect that when consumed the brain gets this feeling of pleasure involving neurotransmitter’s like dopamine. This can lead to serious harm like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. However most people just don’t have the control to stop eating and this is where the food industries large production and quantities of unhealthy food adds to the addiction. All the sugar and salt that is within these junk foods is just so much that the individual is tricked into eating more because the brain wants
The food industry has played a major role in what society and individuals choose to eat and how much they consume. …show more content…
Despite individual’s best intentions, most repeatedly find themselves eating large amounts of unhealthy foods, despite knowing that it is causing harm to their health. In the reading, “In Your Face: How the Food Industry Drives Us to Eat.” Author Bonnie Liebman proposes the question dealing with addictive foods to professor Kelly Brownell on what do you mean by reward pathways? Brownell says, “There are pathways in the brain that get activated when we experience pleasure, and drugs of abuse like heroin hijack that system.”(487) The reason as to why this happens is because processed junk foods have such a powerful effect that when consumed the brain gets this feeling of pleasure involving neurotransmitter’s like dopamine. This can lead to serious harm like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. However most people just don’t have the control to stop eating and this is where the food industries large production and quantities of unhealthy food adds to the addiction. All the sugar and salt that is within these junk foods is just so much that the individual is tricked into eating more because the brain wants