Obesity

Obesity
Each year more children become obese because of the availability of so many unhealthy, processed foods. Obesity is the presence of too much body fat, which has become a huge problem in the united states. Obesity has ultimately become inevitable. A large part of obesity has to do with laziness. Now a days the faster and easier people can obtain things, the better. Take McDonald's for example, some have a timer outside their window that show you that you can get your food in a minute or less. So why bother going through the trouble of going into a grocery store to pick up an apple, when you can simply go into the drive through and pick up a 440 calorie double cheeseburger with ketchup and pickles. processed foods, parents, and marketing, all take fault in why we are growing as the worlds most obese nation.
Processed foods are made cheap with only profit in mind.   One can make almost anything out of sugar, water, flour, starch, fat, artificial colorings, and flavors.( Peter, How to Get Fat Without Really Trying) The processing of these foods keep getting cheaper as newer methods and ways are introduced, benefiting the companies first, and consumers second.   Most processed foods claim to be “healthy” or have “great source of vitamins”. With all the additives in them allowing for such foods to be conserved longer, Their level of healthiness falls.   In todays world, we are all about cheap and fast.   For example, eating at Taco Bell I can buy three, eighty nine cent tacos that will fill me up, but little did I know that kind of food is just a grade above dog food. This is were organic foods come in.   Buying foods that are actually healthy and will fill you up is worth an extra buck.   You would not have to buy as much because you won’t consume as much as you would processed foods. In the long run, buying less of the more expensive foods instead of buying tons of the cheap kind will result and a good change and maybe even saving you a couple dollars.
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