Fast Food and Children
Today‘s stressful and quicker way of life caused that people talk, walk, drive and also eat much faster. Therefore a lot of people search for a quick way to get food and they thrive in fast food restaurants. It is needless to mention the most famous one. How many people would not know McDonald’s? Probably very few people. Its restaurants are spread almost all over the word. Most people know how unhealthy food McDonald’s offers and that they should avoid these meals – yes, people should be at least aware of stuff like that. However this essay will be focused on a much bigger issue – children vs. McDonald’s. It means, how can McDonald’s impact on children‘s values because they in most cases have no sense of it, and it is partly responsible for children‘s obesity.
There is no surprise that the number of obese children rises year by year. And eating in fast foods such as McDonald’s is considered to be one of the potential causes. Morgan Spurlock focused on American children: “Obesity rates in American children … began to climb in the 1970s. In the past 20 years, the rate of obesity has doubled in children and trebled in teenagers.“ Unfortunately this is not happening only in America. You can very often read or hear news about this increase in other countries, such as China, Australia. Eating high-calorie food goes hand in hand with lack of exercises. There is no doubt that in such cases parents should have been more careful regarding their children‘s health and life style.
Parents have a great responsibility to teach their children how to eat. It will reflect their future life – if they will suffer from some diseases according to bad eating habits from childhood or not. Children at a young age do not distinguish the difference between what is healthy and what is not, until their mum or dad learn them to recognize the difference. So why still some parents lead their children to McDonald’s even they know how dangerous it could be? Well the McDonald’s restaurants try
There is no surprise that the number of obese children rises year by year. And eating in fast foods such as McDonald’s is considered to be one of the potential causes. Morgan Spurlock focused on American children: “Obesity rates in American children … began to climb in the 1970s. In the past 20 years, the rate of obesity has doubled in children and trebled in teenagers.“ Unfortunately this is not happening only in America. You can very often read or hear news about this increase in other countries, such as China, Australia. Eating high-calorie food goes hand in hand with lack of exercises. There is no doubt that in such cases parents should have been more careful regarding their children‘s health and life style.
Parents have a great responsibility to teach their children how to eat. It will reflect their future life – if they will suffer from some diseases according to bad eating habits from childhood or not. Children at a young age do not distinguish the difference between what is healthy and what is not, until their mum or dad learn them to recognize the difference. So why still some parents lead their children to McDonald’s even they know how dangerous it could be? Well the McDonald’s restaurants try