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Joshua Miller
Policy essay
Freshman Composition II Food is everywhere we look; sitting along the roadsides, calling at us in bright colors from grocery store shelves, glowing in vending machines down the hallway. There is no way to escape the never ending advertisements from fast food restaurants. This is where obesity begins; consuming more food portions than your body needs. Americans are also overweight due to the lack of exercise; there is more time spent on the couch sitting in front of the television, video games, and sitting on their new smartphones, rather than in the gym or outside moving around. Just an hour each day could better everyones’ health. Obesity ranks as the second-leading cause of preventable deaths in America, following smoking by only one percent. People need to set limits and health plans early in their life to overcome this new threat. As for policies set to help this obesity epidemic, I believe the problem with America is that we like to baby our citizens whenever change needs to happen. Our current policies are not strict enough or are ineffective for helping America’s problem. Despite America being one of the most industrialized nations, this country is definitely not one of the healthiest. Even though we are living in a country with great economic power and amazing technology, we are also living in a country with the smallest nutritional knowledge. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity in adults has increased 60% within the past twenty years and obesity in children has tripled in the past thirty years. A staggering 33% of American adults are obese and obesity related deaths have climbed to more than 300,000 a year. Lawmakers have even tried to impose a new tax rule called a “Twinkie tax”, which would tax unhealthy foods to try to persuade people out of buying them. This method has been termed as unconstitutional, therefore, an alternative to this policy to make it more effective is to encourage
Policy essay
Freshman Composition II Food is everywhere we look; sitting along the roadsides, calling at us in bright colors from grocery store shelves, glowing in vending machines down the hallway. There is no way to escape the never ending advertisements from fast food restaurants. This is where obesity begins; consuming more food portions than your body needs. Americans are also overweight due to the lack of exercise; there is more time spent on the couch sitting in front of the television, video games, and sitting on their new smartphones, rather than in the gym or outside moving around. Just an hour each day could better everyones’ health. Obesity ranks as the second-leading cause of preventable deaths in America, following smoking by only one percent. People need to set limits and health plans early in their life to overcome this new threat. As for policies set to help this obesity epidemic, I believe the problem with America is that we like to baby our citizens whenever change needs to happen. Our current policies are not strict enough or are ineffective for helping America’s problem. Despite America being one of the most industrialized nations, this country is definitely not one of the healthiest. Even though we are living in a country with great economic power and amazing technology, we are also living in a country with the smallest nutritional knowledge. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity in adults has increased 60% within the past twenty years and obesity in children has tripled in the past thirty years. A staggering 33% of American adults are obese and obesity related deaths have climbed to more than 300,000 a year. Lawmakers have even tried to impose a new tax rule called a “Twinkie tax”, which would tax unhealthy foods to try to persuade people out of buying them. This method has been termed as unconstitutional, therefore, an alternative to this policy to make it more effective is to encourage
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