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Americans eat approximately 150 to 170 pounds of sugar each year. This translates to about 0.40 to 0.60 pounds eaten each day. Sugar isn’t the only innutritious thing Americans consume, junk food is also a problem. But what is junk food? Junk food is defined as “food that has low nutritional value, typically produced in the form of packaged snacks needs little or no preparation” (Google). Junk food consumption is mainly based on convenience and cost. If healthy food was less expensive…

Death Knocks was written by Woody Allen, an author, an actor and a filmmaker. (Allen 1971, p.1052)The play Death Knocks comically transformed death, by its use of puns, which according to the theory of incongruity stated by Monro are funny (n.d, p.91). According to Freud’s definition of comedy “a person appears comic to us if, in comparison to ourselves makes too great an expenditure on his bodily functions and too little on his mental ones (n.d, p.752). But, also according to Meeker and Langer…

of chocolate ice cream. At first, she was excited about her purchase, but after about two weeks of eating chocolate ice cream for desert almost every night, Miranda has grown tired of chocolate. Instead of the ice cream, Miranda grabs a bag of potato chips and goes to her room to resume her studies while she eats. From an economic perspective, one would say that Miranda is experiencing diminishing marginal utility. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that, “at some point, as one…

Child Obesity: Slimming Down Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, University of Ottawa, an American author of the website, Weighty Matters, states, “Childhood obesity is a disease of the environment. It’s a natural consequence of normal kids with normal genes being raised in unhealthy, abnormal environments.” These unhealthy, abnormal environments appear in the United States. In America, “Supersize it!” is spoken now more often than, “Small proportion, please!” because of increasing child-targeted…

There has been a growing increase of obesity in the last decade and it has become an epidemic that needs to be resolved. There is many risks that come with obesity especially with someone so young. Obesity can make everyday tasks much more difficult and increases the chance of death. While many parents ignore that fact that their child is obese they are putting their child’s life is danger and suffrage. Obesity is dangerous in every age but it is more casual in a child because the body is so…

For example, parent can buy dried fruits instead of potato chips; parent can make fruit juice out of fresh fruits instead of buying high calories soda. Although that will undeniably cost more, it can help children to establish a standard to identify what is good food and what is not. At the same time, parent…

Genetics’ roles on Obesity As the obesity epidemic continues to overpower and overwhelm the United States, the main cause remains a mystery. Society blames the fast food industry, and a person’s will for their obesity problem, but a problem that seems to elude them is genetics, and how this sets everything in motion. A person’s genes are predetermined, meaning if a person has the “obesity gene” they are predestined to be at minimal, overweight. This being said, it will be easier for an…

was centered on food. “San Francisco was possibly the most food-obsessed place in America”. But, access to food varied dramatically by neighborhood. Some very poor areas were served only by corner liquor stores selling cigarettes, Slim Jims, and potato chips, and in the ghettos, it seemed easier to buy drugs than to find a fresh tomato (Miles…

I was enjoying the early sunrise and misty New Orleans weather when I was introduced to a form of torture. The torture did not include electric chairs or ropes, but rather tightly laced running shoes and bursting calf muscles. The one thing that drove me to this torture was the only thing that could drive me to do anything I am uncomfortable with, which is my desire to be a good student. When I first found out as a naïve eighth grader that I had to run in a certain time to make an A, I was…

fill his vigorous stomach. He relocated his lean body to the pantry, and grabbed a box of delicious wasabi chips. Where’s Cristof, Chris thought as he walked out of his family's gargantuan pantry. Usually his treasured cat, Cristof would come to meet him, but he figured the cat had better things to do. After he threw a wasabi chip into his mouth, he realized just how good the little potato slices were. He loved the way the slowly burned through his mouth reminding him of his burning passion for…