Essays on Fast Food And Obesity

Growing up in a small town in Jamaica, there were no such thing as fast food around every possible corner as opposed to here in America, fast food restaurants are everywhere. This is a typical reason why most American citizens, especially young people are overweight and almost obese. Don’t get me wrong, fast food is…

SNAP is a pogram the provides extra help to the low income families with extra money to be able to put food on their tables on the daily bases. Although, in today’s present day researches have stated “ participation in the program for 1- or 2-years period resulted in an increase in the likelihood of…

Obesity is one of the most important public health problems facing humanity these days. It is a medical condition described for the first time in the eighteenth century of recent history where the «corpulence» (word of the epoch to name the «obesity») was indicated as a result of a sedentary lifestyle and the frequent intake…

Have you ever pulled through a drive thru window and ordered a Burger King chicken sandwich? If you wanted to know what would happen if you ate fast food every day for 30 consecutive days, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary will enlighten you. Morgan Spurlock gives the audience insight as to what would happen to an individual’s…

In 2004, Morgan Spurlock released his documentary Supersize Me, in which he sets out on a thirty-day McDonald’s binge to answer the question of what happens to the human body when it is fed nothing but fast food for every meal for a month. The fast food industry is the leading cause for the nation’s…

In the film “Super Size Me”, Morgan Spurlock starts a month of McDonald’s diet in order to test if eating McDonald’s would put him on the fast track to becoming obese and if the experiment is dangerous. Similarly, Michael Pollan, from The Omnivore’s Dilemma, traces back the food that everyday people eat through four different…

As Americans, especially Mississippians, we are morbidly obese. Mississippi as the second most obese state has a 37.3% obesity rate. Besides a culture that doesn’t require exercise to earn a living, we also eat fast food fervently. How many times have you personally had a long day, not felt like cooking and went to a…