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Everywhere you look now in society today you see a child overweight. Do you ever ask
yourself why or even how that is even possible? Well to answer those questions, it is very
possible for children to become overweight and obese because of advertisements they see every
day. Advertising is one of the best ways to keep a company or restaurant successful and very
popular. However companies and these restaurants have gotten to an all-time low by using
children to keep their businesses on top.
Children today are easily influenced by everything because they don’t know any better
and because they are still growing and learning. According to hopskinmedicine.org the author
says “As children grow and develop, they can be easily influenced by …show more content…
Most children would think that eating those foods that are advertised by those specific
famous athletes who they look up to isn’t bad at all. When children see someone they look up to
doing something they automatically think to do it too. No matter how bad something could be
for them it won’t stop them from doing it.
There are many different ways that child obesity can be resolved. The problem is that
some solutions are very complicated to solve and they could effect a lot of working class people.
Doing so could also result in a lot of angry unemployed people.
That one solution is to of course shut down all fast food restaurants in the United States,
but that might be too big of a request. According to http://www.statista.com/topics/863/fast-
food/ “In 2013, there were more than 232 thousand fast food establishments in the U.S.,
employing over three and a half million people.” So you could see where that would be a huge
problem would come in. Us solving this problem this specific way could endanger some people
as well as increase our unemployment rate by a very large
Everywhere you look now in society today you see a child overweight. Do you ever ask
yourself why or even how that is even possible? Well to answer those questions, it is very
possible for children to become overweight and obese because of advertisements they see every
day. Advertising is one of the best ways to keep a company or restaurant successful and very
popular. However companies and these restaurants have gotten to an all-time low by using
children to keep their businesses on top.
Children today are easily influenced by everything because they don’t know any better
and because they are still growing and learning. According to hopskinmedicine.org the author
says “As children grow and develop, they can be easily influenced by …show more content…
Most children would think that eating those foods that are advertised by those specific
famous athletes who they look up to isn’t bad at all. When children see someone they look up to
doing something they automatically think to do it too. No matter how bad something could be
for them it won’t stop them from doing it.
There are many different ways that child obesity can be resolved. The problem is that
some solutions are very complicated to solve and they could effect a lot of working class people.
Doing so could also result in a lot of angry unemployed people.
That one solution is to of course shut down all fast food restaurants in the United States,
but that might be too big of a request. According to http://www.statista.com/topics/863/fast-
food/ “In 2013, there were more than 232 thousand fast food establishments in the U.S.,
employing over three and a half million people.” So you could see where that would be a huge
problem would come in. Us solving this problem this specific way could endanger some people
as well as increase our unemployment rate by a very large