Americans are choosing fast food. Americans choosing fast food has become an epidemic. As the author Kevin Short wrote “Past research suggests obesity and the preventable chronic diseases that go with it cost the country between $147 billion and $210 billion a year. Dr Mozaffarian believes the economic toll is even higher”(Short). People do not consider the expense of choosing food or how bad it is for the American diet, or what it can do the person's health that eats it dailey. Growing up, americans are not taught what to eat or what processed foods can do to the human body. If americans are taught about food nutrition and bad effects of fast food it could bring down the obesity rate. Not only does education play a role in why americans
