Blog Entry 16

At a young age kids learn about junk food and fast food restaurants. They eat it because it’s good and gives a little toy that the kids can play with. Most kids want the toy more than the meal. The fast food industries ploy is just that, they want kids to eat their food because as they grew to adulthood they start craving the taste when they were little kids. In the article “let them eat fat” by Greg Crister talks about how these industries target people and how they attract them by advertising heavy amounts of food and how convenient it is. These industries should stop targeting people by advertising what they can give to children and keep their food at a normal size.

Many of these fast food industries target poor inner city communities and children. The food is inexpensive and it is very convenient to people who work. In the fast food nation we live in can only cause obesity and diseases. For example McDonalds had the option to supersize their already high calorie items. They gave this option for a very low price which attracted poor inner city communities and the youth. Everyone wanted McDonalds because it was a cheap and convenient way of eating. Eating all this isn’t good for anyone especially for young kids because it can turn into a habit as they get older.

This food that is fast, cheap and good can cause many problems in the long run. The calories taken in are more than people are supposed to. People get lazy and are less physical. They get into the habit of being lazy leads to another trip to a fast food joint. Kids, teenagers and adults will have the same problem of obesity if the food is kept being consumed. The health problems that come with the risk of eating fatty foods will be fatal. These meals come supersized so the risk is a lot more dangerous. The fast food sold to the consumers should be served at a right size so people don’t ever eat. My experience of going to a fast food restaurant was a bad experience because I loved eating the food and ate it for lunch for a week and gained a lot of weight. This made me stop eating fast food for a long time, now I just eat it once in a while.

People shouldn’t be amazed and persuaded by how cheap and convenient something is and over look what it can do to people’s health. These fast food restaurants will do horrible thing to people’s bodies. The meals that bigger are not always better but can give you a better chance of obesity and other diseases that can be fatal.