Fast & Easy or Healthy & Fresh

Watching Supersize Me this past week in class was an eye opening experience, and painful for my tummy. I never realized the severity of the obesity issue facing our country. Fast food restaurants are a strong factor adding to one of the highest leading causes of death in the United States. Americans need to start turning away from the fast, easy, and cheep ways of eating. They need to start looking to the better and healthier alternatives.



From a young age, we are trained to want fast food. The companies direct many of their campaigns toward children such as “Happy Meals” and playhouses. It is a parent’s job, to teach their children about nutrition and encourage them to eat what is good for their body, not something that comes in a box with the side of a free toy. One of the best ways for this to be achieved in a child’s mind is to eat at home. Good homemade meals are balanced, nutritious, and tastes great. Growing up, I rarely went out to eat at McDonalds, Burger King, or Taco Bell. If I wanted to eat a hamburger or a taco we would make them at home; even my baby food was pureed by my parents. Because I was raised this way, I still turn away from fast food and look towards healthier, natural, and whole foods.

If our country as a whole begins eating healthier at a young age, our nation’s obesity rate will lower dramatically. Seeing obese children is one of the saddest things for me to witness because I do not think it is their fault. They have young, impressionable minds, and they obviously weren’t given the proper information in their upbringing. With the help of better food education I think America can choose to become a much healthier and thinner country.