Is Fast Food the New Tabacco?

Do you ever wonder why fast food is now considered the new tobacco? “Worldwide, we’re looking at approximately 350 million people with diabetes. There’s no question that we’re in the midst of a diabetes epidemic”- Dr. Robert Ratner. The question is why is there a large contribution of people with diabetes? In the documentary What the Health Dr. Robert explains that Medicare and health dollars are spent on people with diabetes. The documentary also shows a visual presentation that our everyday food, for example, meat is considered a group one carcinogen, the same class as tobacco. Since the beginning of our age, we have been eating food that could be deadly for us in the long run. Milk, cheese, and meats give a high risk for people to get cancer but now it's worse with the fast-food production. Fast food has been the largest contribution to the eternal problem in America because in our society fast food is the only affordable meal American children can obtain like McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and etc. In “Don’t Blame the Eater” Zinczenko states, “you'll see one of our country's more than 13,000 McDonald's restaurants. Now, drive back up the block and try to find someplace to buy a grapefruit.” America has only focused on putting up these fast-food production stores rather than healthy food stores so how can we help our children when there is not even an accessible location for healthy food. The problem is the lack of awareness, laziness, and the government because America has grown into a diabetic epidemic. For starters, the reason people get diabetes is the intake of fat they consume each day but we as a community have the false idea that is the amount of carbs we consume daily. Our lack of awareness of how much carbs we have to eat each day to maintain a healthy lifestyle and fill our stomachs. In “What you eat is your business” it gives us an idea that the society and the government put “less public concern of what we put into our bodies, but it only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of the choices. Why are we doing this to ourselves? We should demand from the government to limit this fast-food production and demand a proper investigation of what food doesn't act like an addiction to tobacco. People are at a point where they want to consume all the fatty snacks, food and drinks instead of pausing to help themselves and others to prevent getting diabetes. The issue isn't about how we look but the issue is how fast food is affecting our health, our nation and the health of the economy. Michele Obama stated in her speech that “we have to take the issue seriously as seriously as the elimination of youth violence, bullying because this issue is devastating for our community". She would remember how in her past her parents wouldn’t allow her or her sibling to stay home and watch television but to go outside and play. How vegetables were a must at the dinner table and that they were in no position to reject the food on the table. This is our problem that is not motivating people to be healthy, but we are opening a path of diabetes, fast food, laziness, and also making people pay gyms so people can exercise. Isn't that crazy? Our society is focused on the economy, but don't they see that if there are more diabetic people the more our economy will go down. Fast food is becoming a new highly addictive drug because it is accessible and affordable and so delicious that any American would be happy to take it. Which is why we have to help so this addictive drug does not become a bigger problem in the future.

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"A Weight Issue" (2002) - "The damaging culture of fast food in the USA, and the resulting obesity rife amongst America's youth. 60 percent of American adults are overweight. This has serious physical consequences, such as cardiac insufficiency, diabetes, complaints of the joints. Master prosecutor John Benzhaff has declared war to the fast-food industry. "