Obesity

American population faces a growing epidemic of obesity. America is one of the richest, most progressive countries in the world. Shouldn't it be one of the healthiest too?

Maybe it should, but the sad truth is that Americans are some of the unhealthiest people in the world. America is home to the most obese people in the world. So the question is, why the American people? What do we do that is so different than the rest of the world? There is no mystery behind this epidemic we simply need to examine the American diet and lifestyle. Living a life on the go, eating fast-food and microwave dinners, the health of the American people has been sacrificed. Instead of eating a diet of pure, wholesome foods coming directly from the land, Americans eat a diet of packaged, processed, and refined foods.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity in adults has increased by 60% within the past twenty years and obesity in children has tripled in the past thirty years. My opinion, that’s imaginably a lot. Obesity has more related deaths than tobacco. However, through technological advancement we have found ways to produce food in mass quantities, make it last longer and taste better. Unfortunately, during this processing somewhere along the line, we seemed to have lost the food. The highly processed and refined products that pack our supermarket shelves are loaded with sugar, hydrogenated oils, and plenty more ingredients that we can't even pronounce. Which these are really bad to the human health if consumed too much.

This is what I have so far for my essay. But I am working on the rest. Soon to be finish, hopefully.