Although it couldn’t be proven in a court of law, MacDonald’s, or high profile fast food chains collectively, are contributing to the obesity crisis in the western world. This would be highly disagreed on as the high profile fast food chains are contributing to the obesity crisis in the western world. MacDonald’s is America’s fastest food restaurants, serving over 68 million customers in 119 countries daily. MacDonald’s started operating in 1940 and since then has been contributing to obesity, causing people to become extremely unhealthy. Morgan Spurlock, proving that eating MacDonald’s every day for seventeen days causes you to get multiple health problems such as emotional stress, sexual frustration, …show more content…
In a society that functions at a high speed, fast food has quickly been adopted as the preferred food of choice. Fast food restaurants and their advertisements are permeating our neighbourhoods, schools, television, and culture. Burger King and Big Mac burgers have become defining foods of the typical American diet. Corporate goals aim to make these chains more geographically accessible, adding more and more chains to our neighbourhood streets. McDonald’s and Burger King are not the only fast food industries invading our communities, our minds, and our stomachs. These industries are successful because they offer consumers a quick, cheap, convenient and tasty meal that is all too often high in fat and salt content and low in fibre and calcium. Creative marketing strategies that offer super-value meals or super-size perks result in further promotion of these industries. Unhealthy processed foods such as these are a potential health threat since they contribute to the increased prevalence of obesity and chronic disease among society …show more content…
Students usually go either in the morning, during their breaks or study or after school. With this, this result content deplete energy levels and the ability to concentrate for extended periods of time, leads to depression, students need to eat healthy so their energy levels can rise and can start to think more straight and clearly, another reason being that students are getting lazier and it is preventing them to go out and do physical activity and getting a job. This also leads to diabetes, two-thirds of American adolescent’s ages 12 to 19 are of normal weight, 16 percent are overweight, and another 18 percent are obese; the percentages stayed fairly constant between 1999 and 2008. Sixty percent of those who were found to be obese during the 1999-2008 study, half of the overweight adolescents and 37 percent of the normal weight adolescents had at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as high blood pressure or high