Imagine America in the next 10-15 years with more overweight human beings walking around still eating all the cheap unhealthy food they desire. Does that look good on us as a country? I don 't think so; if we were able to setup better ways to get people to exercise, eat healthier we could prevent this growing issue that is occurring right now.
To begin, obesity has been a huge growing problem in the United States of America for the past ten to fifteen years and sadly there are no signs of it stopping anytime soon. To start off, one of the main problems with this obesity issue is that unhealthy food is cheaper for everyone to buy and most of the time it is more convenient to grab and eat when they are out and about doing whatever their heart …show more content…
Money is king in this world we live in today and most people will try to save as much money as possible. So it makes logical sense for most people to buy cheaper food so they can meet their weekly budget. For example, if money is tight or they are trying to save their cash for a luxury item they want, would they rather spend six dollars on a healthy salad or go get two double cheeseburgers for ninety nine cents? I 'm certain they will go with option number two. They get to fill their stomachs up for roughly four or more dollars cheaper than they would if they actually bought a salad or bought ingredients to make a home cooked meal. So most people personally would rather save money than eat healthy which is a huge problem in our …show more content…
It usually starts when they are a child due to their parent’s genetics (Alliance For A Healthier Generation, 2015). This is already a struggle for the child because they have extra work to do to overcome their genetics that were given to them. Some solutions to fix this growing issue is too make your kids engage in physical activity for at least one hour a day. It was already started by play 60 which was first shown on television (ESPN channel). Sadly this movement slowly died because of the fact that nobody wanted to take the time to actually excise. Both parents and teenagers never have the time to be able to exercise because they have too much going on through their day either work, school, or personal chores that need to get done and even if you did have some free time to go workout you wouldn’t because you much rather use that time for something else, for example: hanging out with your friends, being lazy and sit on your bum all day, or going out and doing what you interests you. You really can’t blame them because of the fact that school on top of the homework that is given to them is a very absurd amount. To add on to that statement the amount of classes required to graduate high school is so high that you can’t even take a P.E. class and they don’t require you to take any gym classes at all besides H.O.P.E. which really isn’t an exercising class at all. Some facts about obesity that is mind
To begin, obesity has been a huge growing problem in the United States of America for the past ten to fifteen years and sadly there are no signs of it stopping anytime soon. To start off, one of the main problems with this obesity issue is that unhealthy food is cheaper for everyone to buy and most of the time it is more convenient to grab and eat when they are out and about doing whatever their heart …show more content…
Money is king in this world we live in today and most people will try to save as much money as possible. So it makes logical sense for most people to buy cheaper food so they can meet their weekly budget. For example, if money is tight or they are trying to save their cash for a luxury item they want, would they rather spend six dollars on a healthy salad or go get two double cheeseburgers for ninety nine cents? I 'm certain they will go with option number two. They get to fill their stomachs up for roughly four or more dollars cheaper than they would if they actually bought a salad or bought ingredients to make a home cooked meal. So most people personally would rather save money than eat healthy which is a huge problem in our …show more content…
It usually starts when they are a child due to their parent’s genetics (Alliance For A Healthier Generation, 2015). This is already a struggle for the child because they have extra work to do to overcome their genetics that were given to them. Some solutions to fix this growing issue is too make your kids engage in physical activity for at least one hour a day. It was already started by play 60 which was first shown on television (ESPN channel). Sadly this movement slowly died because of the fact that nobody wanted to take the time to actually excise. Both parents and teenagers never have the time to be able to exercise because they have too much going on through their day either work, school, or personal chores that need to get done and even if you did have some free time to go workout you wouldn’t because you much rather use that time for something else, for example: hanging out with your friends, being lazy and sit on your bum all day, or going out and doing what you interests you. You really can’t blame them because of the fact that school on top of the homework that is given to them is a very absurd amount. To add on to that statement the amount of classes required to graduate high school is so high that you can’t even take a P.E. class and they don’t require you to take any gym classes at all besides H.O.P.E. which really isn’t an exercising class at all. Some facts about obesity that is mind