Unhealthy Diets In America

Unhealthy diets are the main cause of the many diseases that affect the lives of many Americans. Unhealthy foods had been discussed many times, which has brought up many tactics to remove unhealthy foods from people’s diets’. There are many tactics to remove unhealthy foods from being one of the main sources of food, which is to use taxes which would take the unhealthy food, so unhealthy foods aren’t so accessible. There were many claims to leave those to eat what they want because they believe it's their body, and they should be able to anything they want. People believe they should be able to eat anything they want; however there are many diseases that harm Americans lives, therefore we should make the unhealthy foods more expensive so that they aren't very accessible. …show more content…
In the article, “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables” by Bittman he brings up the idea that we should tax unhealthy food. He goes off to explain how taxing unhealthy foods will make it less easy to obtain and while making healthy foods cheaper we can easy to obtain. He also uses the number of how many people are being affected by the consumption of unhealthy foods, using numbers of how much money could be saved if people where to eat healthily. Also going into debt on how sodas are being consumed annually and how much money is generated. With all the info it's easy to see that a good proposal is to tax all of these unhealthy foods such as sodas. Seeing how sodas are being consumed daily and in the billion annually it would be a good thing to tax something that is bad for someone healthy and also easy to obtain. Taxing sodas would decrease the purchase of these sodas. In conclusion, taxing these solids would be a good start to change because they would decrease the amount purchases and amount consumed. To give a proposal we would also need to understand the severity of those sodas that are affecting the lives of