Allow me to set the scene. Imagine a young girl, who is about, say, 7 years old. Her parents both recently acquired full time jobs to pay the rent, and thus do not have enough time to spare to make homemade meals. She gets home from school, and as she waits for her parents, decides to watch her favorite show. She soon gets peckish, and as she flips through tv channels, she suddenly gets the idea to call her mom and asks for food. As she drives along, the girl’s mother picks up the phone and realizes she has two options. The supermarket has just the ingredients to make grilled salmon with some salad, but it is pretty far off from her route home, and can be pricey. However, there is a McDonald’s nearby, and the girl’s mom realizes it will be cheaper to buy dinner from there anyway. Soon, it becomes
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A Every day we are bombarded by advertisements and propaganda encouraging an unhealthy lifestyle, starring a junk food based diet and little exercise. Fast-food chains come up with attractive slogans and eye catching logos for their foods to make consumers want to keep “lovin’ it”. Society has allowed junk food to be cheaper and more accessible to the average American family than healthy alternatives. Subway’s “$5 footlong” and catchy attached jingle, McDonald’s Dollar Menu, Skittles’ creative commercials which attract attention, etc. All of these promote foods high in sugar or carbohydrates. Additionally, in the United States, it has become a struggle for family heads to find jobs which allow them to earn enough to support the family without sacrificing time with said family. Parents working full time is now more common than ever. In fact, about 82% of employed adults now work full-time according to Advisor Perspectives. Such social influences has led to unhealthy lifestyles being a societal trend, and this particular trend has caused individuals to become physically hindered, like in our hypothetical young girl’s situation mentioned
A Every day we are bombarded by advertisements and propaganda encouraging an unhealthy lifestyle, starring a junk food based diet and little exercise. Fast-food chains come up with attractive slogans and eye catching logos for their foods to make consumers want to keep “lovin’ it”. Society has allowed junk food to be cheaper and more accessible to the average American family than healthy alternatives. Subway’s “$5 footlong” and catchy attached jingle, McDonald’s Dollar Menu, Skittles’ creative commercials which attract attention, etc. All of these promote foods high in sugar or carbohydrates. Additionally, in the United States, it has become a struggle for family heads to find jobs which allow them to earn enough to support the family without sacrificing time with said family. Parents working full time is now more common than ever. In fact, about 82% of employed adults now work full-time according to Advisor Perspectives. Such social influences has led to unhealthy lifestyles being a societal trend, and this particular trend has caused individuals to become physically hindered, like in our hypothetical young girl’s situation mentioned