Obesity
Savannah Elwell
English 1010
Conner
7:30
First literature review
When people talk about obesity and health in America, it is usually all the same kinds of things. People are aware that America has a problem with obesity, but is anyone really doing anything about it? There are different programs that try their hardest to get people active and eating healthy but that only does so much. When older folds talk about the subject, they bring up the conversation of “when I was a kid, we didn’t have any of the unhealthy fast-food restaurants like we do today.” They see this generation today as lazy and unwilling to try to make an effort to eat healthy. On the other hand, there are the kids that think the fast-food industry is the greatest thing ever invented. It’s the “easy way out,” to eating. Fast-food chains are overly available so in the time and need to eat, it is so easy to just run through the drive-thru and grab some food. The advertising of fast-food restaurants is so appealing these days that they are looked at as a good thing. They may try to provide a healthy menu, but is it really any better then the rest of the unhealthy menu? Think about how the food is really made, how it got to the restaurant, and how the factories process the food. I’m sure a salad is no doubt healthier then a hamburger but is that salad fresh? Do the workers at McDonalds go out to the back garden and pick the lettuce and tomato? It comes from factories that manufacture the “healthy product.” This topic on obesity and health is complicated in a number of ways. First is, is it really Americas problem to define the country as a whole as being obese and unhealthy? The second being, it’s a lifestyle that America has adapted to, meaning we are so used to being around fast-food restaurants, that it’s a ‘normal’ thing to do. America is the land of the free. Why should it be anyone else’s business what others put into their bodies? It all goes back to the personal accountability
English 1010
Conner
7:30
First literature review
When people talk about obesity and health in America, it is usually all the same kinds of things. People are aware that America has a problem with obesity, but is anyone really doing anything about it? There are different programs that try their hardest to get people active and eating healthy but that only does so much. When older folds talk about the subject, they bring up the conversation of “when I was a kid, we didn’t have any of the unhealthy fast-food restaurants like we do today.” They see this generation today as lazy and unwilling to try to make an effort to eat healthy. On the other hand, there are the kids that think the fast-food industry is the greatest thing ever invented. It’s the “easy way out,” to eating. Fast-food chains are overly available so in the time and need to eat, it is so easy to just run through the drive-thru and grab some food. The advertising of fast-food restaurants is so appealing these days that they are looked at as a good thing. They may try to provide a healthy menu, but is it really any better then the rest of the unhealthy menu? Think about how the food is really made, how it got to the restaurant, and how the factories process the food. I’m sure a salad is no doubt healthier then a hamburger but is that salad fresh? Do the workers at McDonalds go out to the back garden and pick the lettuce and tomato? It comes from factories that manufacture the “healthy product.” This topic on obesity and health is complicated in a number of ways. First is, is it really Americas problem to define the country as a whole as being obese and unhealthy? The second being, it’s a lifestyle that America has adapted to, meaning we are so used to being around fast-food restaurants, that it’s a ‘normal’ thing to do. America is the land of the free. Why should it be anyone else’s business what others put into their bodies? It all goes back to the personal accountability
Cited: Radley, Balko. “What You Eat Is Your Business” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print Wil, Haygood. “Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print Mary, Maxfield. “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print Michelle, Obama. “Remarks to the NAACP National Convention” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print Michael, Pollan. “Escape from the Western Diet” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print Judith, Warner. “Junking Junk Food” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print David, Zinczenko. “Don’t Blame the Eater” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff,Cathy Birkenstien, Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print