Is America Becoming The New Rome

Health is very important, it give you the opportunity of have a good quality of life. A country with good health has happy citizens. However, some reports show us how Americans suffer poor health. The health of Americans is worse than the health of citizens in other wealthy countries even though the United States spends more on health care than any other country. Poor health is caused by the bad nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, stress, and busy life. At the same time, the USA is full of fast food restaurants. Also, they consume a lot of junk food, for example, they consume soda, fried food, and desserts. As a result, the American lifestyle contributes to being overweight. There are three reasons why Americans have poor health.

Overall, America will fall like Rome because of its political problems, like the emperor’s army only choosing leaders who would heavily reward them rather than lead well and economical problems, like heavy taxing on the poor, leading to poverty.

Civil wars everywhere, citizens robbing other citizens, the emperor has no control over the empire or his people. Rome is burning to the ground and people are dying left and right. This was Rome at one point in time. Some say that America will end up suffering the same fate and fall just like Rome did. America is not on the same path that Rome was on.

health problems in America (obesity, heart disease, and cancer) to our diets and the all of the

The United States and Rome were very similar in their early development and in today's mid 20th century. During both of the countries developments and even in modern day american these countries were constantly in wars causing economies and government to suffer consequences. When countries are at war it money is lost causing inflation in prices. When inflation happens it makes the people suffer. With the people suffer the entire country suffers since our country is made up of normal citizens.

I think that America will not fall like Rome, at least anytime soon. This is because there is more entrepreneurship in America than there was in Rome, America is not trying to keep expanding, and America is a democracy unlike Rome, which was a monarchy. First off there is a lot more entrepreneurship and social mobility in America than there was in Rome. For example there is the American dream and you can start off poor, but you can become rich through hard work.

There are similarities and differences between the two and there are similarities and differences in our economy. The similarity is that we both have a great economy. The difference here, would be that in Ancient Rome if you wanted more goods you would have to take over another city. This meant that you would not always have all the goods that you needed. In the Modern US we have established trade agreements with other countries and we are able to keep a stable economy. This is one of the three things that I will talk about that, brought about Rome’s fall, this brought their fall because at some point they didn’t have the resources to take over any more areas. Then they eventually collapsed on themselves.

America is known for its advanced society and technology, but is also known to be one of the most obese populations. Found in “Down to Earth”, America is one of the most progressive countries to exist; therefore it should be the healthiest (“Obesity in America”). If America is so highly advanced, more advancement needs to be put towards obesity rates. As time goes on, adults and children are having to consequently expand their waistbands because of unhealthy habits. In an article previously discussed, Brown-well states that Americans are at an all-time low in exercising (Murray). By having less motivation to exercise, family health is at stake. Future generations need to be more pressured to keep physically fit for their health. With less motivation for a healthier lifestyle, communities across America will remain obese. According to CBS news, Americans prefer to consume Twinkies over Tofu (“The Blame Game”). With Americans not giving healthier options opportunity, less interest will be put into healthy options. Individuals are focusing on the pleasure of taste than their own well being. Internationally speaking, Americans have one of the strongest societies, but the weakest mindset for healthy living. With stubborn attitudes and continual unhealthy choices, obesity will not only stay but

Apart from healthcare issue, the country has adopted the fast-moving life style, which has pushed most of our citizens to succumb to obesity as a result of fast foods. In fact, a recent report by the UN has ranked the United States as the most obese country in the world. Parramore (2012) outlines that, “Obesity is currently being considered as a national crisis in the United States and that it contributes 100,000 to 400,000 deaths per year. Statistics at the CDC and Prevention in 2010 indicate that 35.7% of the American adult is obese.” Many input trends exist in the American society, “First and foremost, people are highly used to fried foods, sugary drinks, and processed meats among others. There is also the sedentary lifestyle that has been adopted by many,” (Huffington Post, 2013). In fact, most of us love relaxing without exercise and too much television watching. These are some of the factors that contribute to obesity. The result is health complications problems such as diabetes, stroke, and heart disease just to mention but a few. These affect the longevity of life.

People are trying so hard to chase the American Dream that they forget about their health, which is currently a huge problem in America. It’s such a big problem that people outside the USA has stereotypes about the Americans, e.g. “Fat American” or that all Americans are fat and lazy. When people think about Americans the first things that comes on their minds are,” Americans are the fattest people in the entire world, and they sit around eating bon-bons and fast food all day.” Obesity is getting worse and worse in America, but what is the main reason for that?

There are many different cultures through the world. Most cultures, in order to make their food more appealing to the human eye, add colorful vegetables. Many of those cultures consist of healthy eating- others not too much. In America, there are restaurants on every corner. It is difficult for a person to eat healthy when there is many different foods to choose from in the place where all cultures clash together. The reasons why people tend to gain weight is either because they eat out more than they have to, they are not emotionally stable, or they do not involve exercise into their daily lives.

The people in this country always tend to “bite off more than they can chew”, literally. Countless people every day throw out food either because it has gone bad because they bought too much of what they did not need. They never end up eating it in the first place leaving it to go bad. “But all food goes bad no matter where it’s from” you might say, well yes but more goes bad if over half sits there uneaten only purchased because of a sale or huge discount. To top it all off the country as a whole consumes in excess. Over half of the nation is obese and eats more than they should regularly. The over-eating concept comes into full view with the almost infamous concept of eating contests. People compete to see who could eat more literally gorging themselves while people are starving and making it by on what they can scrape up. People eat more than they need and all that they want when given the chance. Sometimes people eat when they are not even hungry, but simply as a means of distraction from something else. All-you-can-eat

Almost 90% of Americans are overweight or just all around obese. Many people do not see the

Moreover, many Americans do not engage in physical activities throughout the daily life, using their car even if they go to the nearest 7-Eleven store, for a minor grocery purchase. Sitting all day in front of their computers in the office, or behind a desk is not going to help them burn the calories they ingested today after going for lunch with a friend in one of the fast-food restaurants. Relying so much on transportation while people have other options like riding a bicycle, walking, or jogging, but they never do and this is another cause for obesity (Surgeon General, 2010, para 4). Using technology limitlessly such as computers, tablets, and especially cell phones made majority of this nation lazy. Instead of visiting family and friends physically, people call them. Rather than going for shopping, many other orders online and surprisingly, its delivered fast too, as a result, people do not go out, so life becomes more stressful than it already is being obese. Watching TV is another reason a great number of Americans created to stay home, relax, and consuming piles of junk-food. The innovation of technology, which meant to make life easier and better end up twisting people’s life towards obesity (Surgeon

The United States is one of the most obese countries, ranking 12th in the world for percentage of population being obese. (Niddk) The countries in front of us are much smaller and less developed therefore leaving the United States as the outlier of the group. Fast food, soda, and other sweets are plastered on the corner of every busy street and a cheeseburger is cheaper than a salad. Our eating habits have only gotten worse over the years with the average American eating a substantial amount of calories in comparison to years past. Also, a major suspect in the obesity epidemic today, is sugar. Over the past three decades, our consumption of sugar has increased by 30% (CDC) This drastic increase can 't possibly be spun in a positive way and could potentially be a major cause of the obesity epidemic we 're currently facing in the United States today.