Healthy food should be accessible to everyone. If healthy food isn’t available for everyone all it’s going to do is cause more and more health problems. If we made healthy organic food the same price as cheap unhealthy food there would be a big difference in the health of our country. It’s completely unfair to make healthy food too expensive for other people to buy, which causes them to buy cheap unhealthy food, like off a dollar menu at a fast food restaurant. This issue needs to be put to an end. In Robert Kenner’s film Food Inc. this topic is addressed. It says in the movie that low income families have no other choice but to buy cheap fast food. These families rarely get the chance to buy good, healthy, organic food because it’s too …show more content…
That’s quite a few problems for one country and that is not even all of them. If this doesn’t make you question our eating habits in the U.S. not sure what will because this is obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. Some reasons why healthy food needs to be available to everyone is because of all of the health problems we have already in the United States. Another reason would be how the only thing families can afford is cheap fast food, prices needs to be changed for healthy food so people don’t experience health problems from eating too much unhealthy food. These are two main reasons why this is an issue in our country. If we lower the prices for healthy foods then we would see a big change in the health of our country. We already have too many health problems in the United States because of unhealthy, cheap food from fast food restaurants. A long time ago there was never this many cases of obesity, and diabetes because there wasn’t that many fast food restaurants and one dollar menus. When these showed up everybody went to them because it was cheaper than healthy organic food. If healthy food was priced as low as the dollar menu at McDonalds then there would be drastic changes in our countries health, and eating habits. Prices really need to be changed for healthy food because fast food is the only thing some families can afford now of days. According to the film Food Inc. low
In today's generation, healthy and unhealthy food plays a huge role in one's life. Especially when it comes to budgeting your expenses. Comparing the Guatemala and North Carolina family, you can tell many differences by looking at the images. It's obvious that the family from Guatemala eats healthy and the other doesn’t. Fast food has changed the world we live in now. Many years ago, people ate healthily and spent less money on junk food because they spent most of the time cooking their own food. Over the years, the production of fast food has increased tremendously in America. 77.3 percent of industries have taken over the production of fast food. Agriculture is one
To another extent I think that we are limited in food justice. Commercial businesses try to get tons of unhealthy foods to sell after they make them. Sense processed foods are made so fast, they out sell the organically grown foods and become more popular making less of a demand of organically grown foods and more for processed foods.In western KY the demand of organic foods
Driving down the street no matter where you are it is almost a guarantee the you will see multiple fast food restaurants lined up on the side of the roads. On average 29% of American families eat at fast food restaurants at least twice a week. McDonald's is one of the most visited fast food chains in the world, let alone the United States, and their most popular meal item can have as many as 1340 calories. That is already more than half of the calories that nutrition labels use to determine the suggested serving size of foods, and it is only one meal of the day. This means that if the lower income areas are consuming an insane amount of calories in a day, which contributes to high levels of obesity in their
Over the years food has gone from essentially healthy to very unhealthy. Fast food is the number one problem people face everyday in their lives. Due to the fact of different types of fast food places people have available to them and the unlimited supply of options. This has lead to people making poor choices that cause problems in their lives. The unhealthy fast foods people have chosen to eat has lead people to sue the fast food industry because people are becoming obese. The problem is that people do not know how to read the nutrition labels correctly which has lead to companies being sued. This is a problem that needs to be solved by both parties, the consumers and the food industries. People need to be educated on how to properly: manage
When the average person is in need of food, they’re usually dealing with the conflicting feelings of whether or not they want to eat healthy, or just spoil themselves with junk foods. Dealing with those feelings, one thing decides for that person; the price. Granted that sometimes there might be good deals for the healthier section, it’s the unhealthy section that is normally cheaper. Even though burgers and fries are much more preferred than a salad. By decreasing the prices of healthy foods, you not only are being considerate to the ones on special diets, but also you’re giving people a better opportunity to have a healthier, more positive life.
After hearing the increased stereotypes about obesity in the United States, food has become a major issue. Almost 90% of the food that we consume is unhealthy and full of chemicals. Now that only a few people are aware of this, they are switching to organic food which does not contain any of these harmful and unhealthy substances. Organic food is simply the food that is not grown with the help of harmful pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and growth hormones. Be it acted by the 9th grade House of Representatives of Wayzata High School that organic food should be promoted and given to all of the people living in the United States regardless of their income. This is because they are healthier and can prevent cancer and obesity, help our local economy, and can help in the betterment of our environment and biodiversity.
Fast food restaurants are making a lot of money because people who go in there would rather get a whole meal which include fries, a burger and a drink for $5, then get a salad bowl that costs more than $5. It’s cheaper for people to eat bad then to good because all the healthy foods are more expensive than the other foods that aren’t good for your body. Fast food restaurants would probably need to close their restaurants in specific areas because less and less people would purchase food form there.
Ever wonder why it costs so much to eat healthy? It doesn’t! Organic foods cost more but that doesn’t mean that the food is healthy or good for you. Eating healthy is a very important thing to make sure you do, healthy eating is healthy for you!
Most of the organic food comes from animals or different types of fertilizer.”For instance,organic fruits, vegetables and other crops must not have been treated with synthetic fertilizers, certain pesticides or sewage sludge. Meat,eggs and milk must come from animals that have been raised according to specific health and welfare standards.”(Cernansky) But then there is people that dont like organic foods and would rather buy conventionally foods.”Kristin Dimarco...knew for sure what she wouldn't be buying:anything organic. I just feel like i've already built up an immunity to anything that might be in food, the 26 year old told me.Besides, she said, why would she want to pay a markup that can run double or triple the cost of conventionally food?”(Lazarus) If it weren't for U.S. Agriculture there might be organic foods
Wouldn’t it be reasonable to consider that people just might eat healthier if they simply had the money to do so? It would be interesting to consider that the people who usually have bad eating habits, are the ones who actually can’t afford to eat healthy. America has the highest obesity rate in the world, but who knows where we could be if the healthy food was more affordable and the junk food wasn’t reasonably cheap. Illnesses and diseases have become common too in people, many that come from just unhealthy eating that has taken a negative toll on the body. Not to mention, people living in low-income areas where in those areas, the main thing around them are fast food restaurants. The promotion of healthier eating and a healthier lifestyle, though, isn’t completely hidden from the public, though more ads about tasty junk food are on televisions, billboards, and so on, more than food that will benefit your body and general health. These things are all played into the fact that people already have a terrible diet, and the prices of foods that can make someone’s diet healthier are too high for most to even include them in their diet regularly. Healthier foods should cost less because it can help lower the high obesity rate in America, it will promote a healthier lifestyle to people to do things like exercise more, and it can help prevent life-threatening illnesses caused by unhealthy eating.
In the United States, more than 35% of people are obese, partly because healthy food is too expensive for people to buy it. An average kid will ingest 40% of their calories from fast food. Across the world, healthy foods should be less expensive.
Most all parents want their children to have a healthy life and meal every day, but “More than 23 million Americans, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a supermarket”(Let’s Move). This makes it very difficult for millions of Americans to provide that organic nutrition to their families. Without meaning to they have put themselves and their families in a “food desert since they lack access to affordable and nutritious food”( Let’s Move). Many people may not know that they are in the situation until the children have already developed the fixed mindset on who gets to eat the healthier
People all over the world have less or no access to Healthy Foods, and I feel if a rather large group of people could come together, they could supply healthy food to those in need, or at least the resources to make their own healthy food. Having just food in general is one thing, but having Healthy Food is key. Your body requires certain amounts of carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Without those things your body will not function properly and you will not get to live your life fully. Want to lose weight? Have you thought about eating healthier? All the nutrients, proteins, vitamins you consume via healthy foods help that if that’s something you worry about.
Food is not as simple as it seems. Once Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”. We, as human been should pay attention to what we eat because it will be reflected in the future. A lot of times we know if someone eats healthy by just seeing them, because physically they do not have a good body, healthy skin, or something like that. As we already said more than 50% of USA’s population eats fast food for many reasons: economy, quick service, etc., but the real problem come when we consider health. If People should care more about what they eat and try to avoid fast food, then they will have less possibility of diseases like high cholesterol, obesity, or cardiovascular issues and heart diseases.
Eating healthier is a goal that most people have for their New Year’s Resolution. Rather it is to eat more salads or try to go to more organic or natural foods. People are trying to find ways to put better food into their bodies. Then to come to the big realization that it is expensive to eat healthier. Why pay seven dollars for a salad when they could go to McDonald’s and get two cheeseburgers for two dollars, or go to an organic smoothie shop and get an expensive organic smoothie that taste bad. While at the same time it cost twice as much as one from a fast food place. Eating organic food is way betters for you than anything you can get at McDonald’s or Burger King, just it’s way cheaper to feed four or five people at those places than going to a restaurant that serves nothing but organic foods.