In today’s modern society can you really afford to take big risks with your body? For instance, you wouldn’t intentionally go skydiving knowing that your parachute isn’t going to open. So why would you put something that you know is harmful for you into your system. The surprising thing is that the harmful substance is processed foods, and it’s consumed on a global scale with none the wiser. In the following paragraphs the problem will be clear and simple; there will also be a better/healthier alternative to the harmful processed foods. I will provide some basic knowledge about processed foods that might prove to be helpful throughout the reading. My claim for this paper is: For a healthy and natural diet the only option to take is all natural
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A writer for the Association of Health Care Journalists has dissected this particular controversy in an article titled “Eating Healthy: Prohibitively expensive or surprisingly cheap?” (Rojas-Burke). In the article Joe Rojas-Burke mentions that most of the obesity in America has a significant epicenter around people in poverty levels. It is quite understandable how cheaper food is the food consumed in these groups, but the surprising thing is that even though obesity tends to follow the poorer family’s, there is still a massive amount of people not in poverty that eat processed foods. Daphne Oz does an outstanding job explaining why the cheapness of processed food phenomenon is currently a reality. How she explains it is the government allows the basic crops like corn and soy to be subsidized and thus the prices for these crops maintain a low price, they are also the basic ingredients in fast and processed foods. Of course we would like to blame the government for all of our problems like we do most of the time but, as she states, “we . . . have voted with our forks and told our government and food suppliers that all we want is cheap, convenient processed junk” (Oz). While this is true that we have “voted” for processed foods we should still have the option of healthy food for a reasonable price. Still I will concede that processed food is cheaper than whole foods, but how much cheaper can definitely be debated. On average it only costs $1.50 more a day to eat healthy opposed to unhealthy, that’s for the average household (Rojas-Burke). There is also a large quantity of health risks directly associated with the mass consumption of processed food, like heart disease or organ failure. So yes it’s true, it is cheaper to eat processed or fast food, but is it really worth the $1.50 to consume something that is directly correlated to numerous health risks? I don’t think so for a
A writer for the Association of Health Care Journalists has dissected this particular controversy in an article titled “Eating Healthy: Prohibitively expensive or surprisingly cheap?” (Rojas-Burke). In the article Joe Rojas-Burke mentions that most of the obesity in America has a significant epicenter around people in poverty levels. It is quite understandable how cheaper food is the food consumed in these groups, but the surprising thing is that even though obesity tends to follow the poorer family’s, there is still a massive amount of people not in poverty that eat processed foods. Daphne Oz does an outstanding job explaining why the cheapness of processed food phenomenon is currently a reality. How she explains it is the government allows the basic crops like corn and soy to be subsidized and thus the prices for these crops maintain a low price, they are also the basic ingredients in fast and processed foods. Of course we would like to blame the government for all of our problems like we do most of the time but, as she states, “we . . . have voted with our forks and told our government and food suppliers that all we want is cheap, convenient processed junk” (Oz). While this is true that we have “voted” for processed foods we should still have the option of healthy food for a reasonable price. Still I will concede that processed food is cheaper than whole foods, but how much cheaper can definitely be debated. On average it only costs $1.50 more a day to eat healthy opposed to unhealthy, that’s for the average household (Rojas-Burke). There is also a large quantity of health risks directly associated with the mass consumption of processed food, like heart disease or organ failure. So yes it’s true, it is cheaper to eat processed or fast food, but is it really worth the $1.50 to consume something that is directly correlated to numerous health risks? I don’t think so for a