In an article “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” by Michael Moss, they go over junk food and its science behind addiction. They go on to explain that today one in three adults are clinically considered obese. That being in mind, they also explained that one in five kids, and 24 million Americans are afflicted by type 2 diabetes. It’s no surprise knowing those kinds of statistics, especially in todays date. There’s multiple or actually tons of fast food chains that are growing today and are going to continue.
People who don’t watch what they eat and continue to have a poor diet are often diagnosed with pre-diabetes. As stated in the article, “79 million people having pre-diabetes” specially caused by poor dieting. It’s not just diabetes, but many other health risks that can be gained from poor dieting. Health risks such as Heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, osteoarthritis, and breathing problems! Food addiction is real, but can be easily stopped if you decide to actually stop and change up your diet.
Reading deeper into the article in “Lunchtime Is All Yours”, we can see that there was a campaign that targeted mothers who were often too busy to make lunch for their kids. So, Kraft made a marketing strategy that played an ad after cartoons were done playing for their product named “Lunchables”. It carried out a message that said, “All day, you gotta do what they say,” the ads said. “But lunchtime is all yours”. My reaction to this is just straight disappointment, because the nutritional value on these lunchables are horrible. I’m pretty sure everyone knows what a lunchable is, but it’s not something that should be eaten every single day as it contributes to obesity today.
What this says about food addiction is true. There’s many Americans who love junk food and especially kids. The obesity rate just continues to raise every year especially with kids nowadays. Although, there is solutions to this, many people choose to just simply ignore them. As simple as it may sound, it would cause a huge difference in todays society. A simple change to your diet can change the obesity rate within this country. Fast food chains have in the power within this society as they’re mainly responsible for obesity and many of the health risks today. Fast food chains continue to produce and exploit consumers to their product and target multiple people who don’t have enough time to prep and cook meals. This takes advantage of it’s consumers with their quick expertise in it’s program to deliver it’s product as soon as possible to the customer, where the customer then can eat their food within a waiting period of under 5-10 minutes.
In the end, is junk food really all that addicting? Some people may say yes, while others say no, but in the end it all comes down to decision making and choices. Obesity isn’t something that’s naturally given, but rather something that is done with your decisions. No person in this world is born obese, but all that can simply be changed by changing their dieting routine. A lot of people just start thinking, ” why not”, and that just builds up more and more, eating bad for one day is not going to hurt you but all that just keeps adding up if you eat the same way.
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