Obesity epidemic

Nowadays, it is more common to see long queues of people inside of the more well known brands of fast food restaurants and this is a tendency which has increased throughout the years.

As a product of the lack of time of busy people’s lives fast food chains have become in the number one choice for people from all ages, since children to elderly people generating an income of millions and millions of dollars for those restaurants; But also making worse one of the illnesses of the new century, obesity.

It is not a secret, the food you eat in fast food restaurants like Mc Donalds, Wendys or Burguer King among others is not as healthy as the food you usually eat in an average home. Even though people know it, they are still clinging to the idea of making their lives quicker and easy without thinking not even for a second of the consequences this decision could bring to their lives.

Research doesn’t lie, a single meal bought in a fast food restaurant contain more calories than you need in a entire day to have a balanced diet and if you customize your meal as most people do adding more cheese or enlarging your chips or your soda, the calories in the same not standard meal increase in a way hard to reduce just with the used walk to the school, to work or to going home; That is basically the problem.

 
The lack of physical activity and the intake of big amounts of fast food is about to kill of a heart attack to almost half of the United States population and this tendency is spreading to most of the big cities in the world like an epidemic decease.

It is hard to blame somebody or something for this issue. I tend to think is all about family customs and I definitely can say that family has plenty of responsibility as you can see this problem in children in too early stages of their lives; I think, is parents task to guide children to have good habits so as to have good quality standards of living, the problem is the obesity can be a inherit problem as well, passing through generation to generation and if there is not a complete change of attitude from parents, will be a really hard issue to beat

Nevertheless, the family factor is not the only detonating; Of course I think Fast food companies have a big responsibility due to the negligence they have shown towards the situation they are generating.  Invading consumers with a large range of advertisement they have achieved to change the purchasing behavior of many customers and turn them into compulsive purchasers, and clearly into compulsive eaters.

Besides this, there is still a lack of conscience from fast food companies about their customer’s health; It is seemed that for them human lives are regarded as another business item which is generating the revenues they need to survive.

On the other hand, I think people is guilty of their own fate to some extent, because you make your own decisions and choices and you are the only one responsible and of course you are the only one who is set to bear the consequences of your acts. Finally, I consider this is a problem in which many factors are the responsible, but I think the problem is a rather a matter of conscience more than disinformation, so is likely that the rates of obesity keep on rising if the consumers don’t change their mentality and therefore, their lifestyles.  .