Cause and Effect Essay on Obesity
Tiffany Nali
Period 3
May 20,2012 Cause and Effect Essay on Obesity
Obesity is one of the main topics in America including one of the main reasons of death.-(begin with a subject) Detecting obesity is easy, but treating it can be very hard to do. Never have there have been so many teens and children not only overweight but obese. In some ways, it could be called the plague of the twenty- first century due to adolescents and teenagers indulging themselves in a plethora of food for every meal they have, therefore becoming overweight and morbidly obese. In the eighteen hundreds there was not a fast food place to go to unlike these days, so children were not obese like they are today.-(begin with a prepositional phrase) While there are many causes for the epidemic of obesity and related health problems including irresponsibility of the consumer, parental influence, easy access to fast food, we believe the main cause for this problem is the advertisement of corporations.
The irresponsibility of the consumer is one of the main reasons for the increase of obesity and health related problems. Some people make eating fast food a common meal when it should be a rare decision. David Zinczenko states in his article “Don’t Blame the Eater” that while growing up, his meals were always “A daily choice between McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut” (p3).The sooner people start realizing that if they become responsible for their diet and all the fast food they eat, the closer they will be to becoming healthier. 1 in 3 children in America are obese as it says in the internet article “obese parent, obese children= problem in America”. If parents do not take action on their health, how do they expect their children to live a fit life?
Many variables within the family setting including parental influence effect children's eating habits and ultimately their weight outcome. As Daniel Weintraub
Period 3
May 20,2012 Cause and Effect Essay on Obesity
Obesity is one of the main topics in America including one of the main reasons of death.-(begin with a subject) Detecting obesity is easy, but treating it can be very hard to do. Never have there have been so many teens and children not only overweight but obese. In some ways, it could be called the plague of the twenty- first century due to adolescents and teenagers indulging themselves in a plethora of food for every meal they have, therefore becoming overweight and morbidly obese. In the eighteen hundreds there was not a fast food place to go to unlike these days, so children were not obese like they are today.-(begin with a prepositional phrase) While there are many causes for the epidemic of obesity and related health problems including irresponsibility of the consumer, parental influence, easy access to fast food, we believe the main cause for this problem is the advertisement of corporations.
The irresponsibility of the consumer is one of the main reasons for the increase of obesity and health related problems. Some people make eating fast food a common meal when it should be a rare decision. David Zinczenko states in his article “Don’t Blame the Eater” that while growing up, his meals were always “A daily choice between McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut” (p3).The sooner people start realizing that if they become responsible for their diet and all the fast food they eat, the closer they will be to becoming healthier. 1 in 3 children in America are obese as it says in the internet article “obese parent, obese children= problem in America”. If parents do not take action on their health, how do they expect their children to live a fit life?
Many variables within the family setting including parental influence effect children's eating habits and ultimately their weight outcome. As Daniel Weintraub