Obesity in AmericaOver the years America has accumulated lots of bad eating habits. Because of these habits we have obese children and adults. America has a rising obesity rate and the people to blame are the fast food companies, parents, the schools and television.Mainly to blame is the fast food companies for advertising to children. The advertising to children include many characters that they recognize like; Dora, Scooby Doo, Barney, or even Spongebob Squarepants. They use characters like these because little kids will see their favorite character selling a product they will beg their parents to go out and buy it for them. Another reason to blame them is because they have billions of locations all over the world. “Mc Donald’s is operating 13,602 restaurants in the U.S” (David Barboza). They have so many because the “Mc Donald’s corporation wants to be everywhere that children are.”(David Barboza). The last reason to blame them is because when someone orders they don’t tell them the nutritional facts about what they are eating or even about what they are about to eat.Also to blame is the parent of the children. It is there fault because they feed their kids the fast food. Sometimes parents will feed their children anything to make them happy. Most of the time parents are misguided and they don’t even know what they are feeding their children. . “I always believed Mc Donald’s food was healthy for my son.” (Shannon . . . read more. |
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