In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, over 20,
were diagnosed as being obese. This is a rapid rising static so why has no one
done anything to prevent this fat epidemic? Some people may argue that fast
food companies such as McDonald’s and Burger King are to blame for this death
sentence of being fast food dangerously over weigh. Fast food companies are to
blame, however I also believe that it is the public’s own responsibility.
Firstly,
fast food alone is a huge contributor to obesity. Considering the millions of
people served at fast food restaurants versus any other eating establishment,
fast food restaurants hold a particular responsibility to provide nutritious,
tasty and healthy food. Instead, most fast food restaurants provide clearly
unhealthy food, or unhealthy food disguised as natural foods, such as salads
with low fat salad dressing. In MacDonald’s the chicken and bacon salad that
has 16 g of fat has more fat contents then a sweet chill Mayo chicken sandwich
which has 10g of fat. The meals that are served at these fast food outlets mainly
come with fries as their sides normally contain over 1,000 calories, which is
more than half of an average person’s daily amount. The NHS recommends that an
average male should eat about 2,500 calories a day and a female should eat
about 2,000 calories a day.
A
recent 2014 study has shown that 34% of an average British income is spent on
greasy takeaways and fat-filled feasts. Fast foods restaurants such as McDonald’s
and Burger king have offers and promotions advertised on their homepage of
their websites and even downloadable apps that offer “Exclusive offers”. Low
prices are used to engage the public to come and buy their fatty food. Places
such as Sam’s chicken sells products such as hot dogs for 99p. However the
chicken that is sold at prices low as £3.49 is full of grease and is most
likely to be the giblets, skin and toe nails that are not used in the average
chicken roast that you will have on a Sunday evening. The foods that fast food restaurants
advertise to the public looks pleasing, juice and mouth-watering but really
when you have it in your hands it looks disgusting, sickening and unappealing. It
like the food the use in the adverts and posters are not real it look like they
used plastic food models that 4 years play with in their role play kitchen.
However
people must realise that the public are equally to blame for their junk food
intake. Place such as “Boost juice bars” provided health alternatives to their
unhealthy takeaway. Tottenham court road has a “Boost Juice Bar” which is
located next door a three floor MacDonald’s. Also the people in general are to
blame due to them wanting to waste their money greasy and fatty foods. From my
own experience I have seen that fast food restaurants are brain washing poor
innocent young children into wanting and liking these hell houses. This has
been done by fast food restaurants having songs to do with these restaurants
the song that is most common and most children know is “A Pizza Hut”. MacDonald’s brain wash their children by
placing breakable toys or games in children’s happy meals making children
asking their parents to buy them a happy meal just for the toy that in 2 days’
time the children will lose it or even the toys will break. It is very shocking
that before most children can speak they can recognise the MacDonald’s logo.
Fast food has become an addiction for
human beings it’s like someone being addicted to drugs or alcohol. Even though
fast food is easily available to most people, still individuals have to make a
choice to maintain their health. Most people may say that fast food outlets are
to blame for their fatness but I think they are wrong because use people
decided what to eat, what to spend are money on and what to do. It is shocking
to see how many human beings are being brainwashed into eating greasy, fattening
and unreal fast food. Fast food outlets is not healthy and it will never be
healthy. After every person has fast food to eat they don’t have the energy or
the power to do any type of exercise, instead they go home and sit in front of
the TV the rest of the day.
In conclusion
I think that fast food outlets are to blame for obesity. I think this because after
the first fast food restaurant to open (Wimpy in 1974) the rate of obesity increased
by 45% and more people become ill and start to get health problems. Also fast
food outlets are to blame as they decided to add MSG into their foods making
people craving more of their food and always coming back to their restaurant
for more. There are many people in the world that don’t know what they are
eating and what is contain in their food for all they know they might be eating
a nice, rich and tasty piece of chicken but really they might be eating a horrible,
unreal and disgusting pigeon.
