Essay On America's Obese Future
America’s Obese Future
Our world today, it seems all people are doing is eating out and sitting on the couch. The influx of easily available junk food is causing people to gain weight at a much higher rate than in previous years. This might be because people are ill-informed about what they are putting into their bodies and what the consequences are of them eating poorly. While this poor diet could be counter-balanced with exercise, many people are falling short of their recommended daily regimen. Readily available food and soda has become a newer phenomenon in the last couple of decades, and it continues to become larger problem every year. This is something not many people think about, but it is a problem because more and more people are choosing to eat fast food instead of staying home and cooking healthy meals …show more content…
In the article entitled “The Role of Parents in Public Views of Strategies to Address Childhood Obesity in the United States” written by J.A. Wolfson et al., the author states; “American children has a shorter life expectancy than does their parent’s generation” (qtd. J.A. Woldson et al. 74). Wolfson elaborates on the importance of eating healthy and exercising correctly, otherwise, more and more people will be overweight. Perhaps being overweight at a job could result in an injury that otherwise would not occur. If they were injured on the job, they would be getting a pension more than likely, and would be out of work while healing. This would cause the unemployment rate to go up, and the government handout rate would increase drastically as well. The United States economy would take a hit, not at first, but along a series of years. If the national debt does not fix this rapidly growing situation, the age expectancy will go down tremendously and the efficiency will decline as
Our world today, it seems all people are doing is eating out and sitting on the couch. The influx of easily available junk food is causing people to gain weight at a much higher rate than in previous years. This might be because people are ill-informed about what they are putting into their bodies and what the consequences are of them eating poorly. While this poor diet could be counter-balanced with exercise, many people are falling short of their recommended daily regimen. Readily available food and soda has become a newer phenomenon in the last couple of decades, and it continues to become larger problem every year. This is something not many people think about, but it is a problem because more and more people are choosing to eat fast food instead of staying home and cooking healthy meals …show more content…
In the article entitled “The Role of Parents in Public Views of Strategies to Address Childhood Obesity in the United States” written by J.A. Wolfson et al., the author states; “American children has a shorter life expectancy than does their parent’s generation” (qtd. J.A. Woldson et al. 74). Wolfson elaborates on the importance of eating healthy and exercising correctly, otherwise, more and more people will be overweight. Perhaps being overweight at a job could result in an injury that otherwise would not occur. If they were injured on the job, they would be getting a pension more than likely, and would be out of work while healing. This would cause the unemployment rate to go up, and the government handout rate would increase drastically as well. The United States economy would take a hit, not at first, but along a series of years. If the national debt does not fix this rapidly growing situation, the age expectancy will go down tremendously and the efficiency will decline as