Junk Food Nation
JUNK FOOD NATION
Obesity in children and Adolescents represents one of the most frustrating and difficult disease to treat. Furthermore, one in five children in the United States is now over weight according to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The author of this article looks at the obesity in children and what is causing it, and how we can find a solution to it. Although this article offers well-supported arguments, it also has weakness. It is clearly known that the driving force for junk food industries is the large amount of money they infuse during Bush and Cheney campaign in 2005. The large amounts of money these companies give out during campaign enable them to be successful in continuing to be producing their junk food to the society. The consumption of these junk foods results in obesity in children in our society. Some people argue that schools are to be blamed for giving children free access to sugary foods, snacks and fast food. In other words, some people say children are obese not because of what they eat, but because of lack of exercise. This makes companies like McDonald’s, Pepsi, Coke and others to hand out funding fitness centers that would make children to move. In conclusion, childhood obesity is an ongoing epidemic that is plaguing adults and children alike. This obesity has an effect in our children in a way that we cannot explain. Medically, there is a treatment for obesity. But everyone needs to play part if we are to get rid of this disease in our society. Through several sources of evidence, like statistics and experimental data, they effectively prove that parents are mainly responsible for obesity in children. FTC chair Deborah Majoras had made it cleared that the commission will do nothing to stop the rising flood of junk food advertising to children, and it is the responsibility of the parents to control what their children is consuming.
Obesity in children and Adolescents represents one of the most frustrating and difficult disease to treat. Furthermore, one in five children in the United States is now over weight according to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The author of this article looks at the obesity in children and what is causing it, and how we can find a solution to it. Although this article offers well-supported arguments, it also has weakness. It is clearly known that the driving force for junk food industries is the large amount of money they infuse during Bush and Cheney campaign in 2005. The large amounts of money these companies give out during campaign enable them to be successful in continuing to be producing their junk food to the society. The consumption of these junk foods results in obesity in children in our society. Some people argue that schools are to be blamed for giving children free access to sugary foods, snacks and fast food. In other words, some people say children are obese not because of what they eat, but because of lack of exercise. This makes companies like McDonald’s, Pepsi, Coke and others to hand out funding fitness centers that would make children to move. In conclusion, childhood obesity is an ongoing epidemic that is plaguing adults and children alike. This obesity has an effect in our children in a way that we cannot explain. Medically, there is a treatment for obesity. But everyone needs to play part if we are to get rid of this disease in our society. Through several sources of evidence, like statistics and experimental data, they effectively prove that parents are mainly responsible for obesity in children. FTC chair Deborah Majoras had made it cleared that the commission will do nothing to stop the rising flood of junk food advertising to children, and it is the responsibility of the parents to control what their children is consuming.