The main ideas presented in both articles are that there
needs to be a change in the American diet essentially. Unhealthy junk foods and
sugared drinks should be taxed so it costs a little more to get, and with that
it will save money to give to farms that can produce more staple crops. With
unhealthy foods costing more, this can result in a drastic decrease in adult
and child obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and health care costs. Also, the
National School Lunch Program is giving schools commodity foods, which are
high-fat, poor quality meats and cheese, and processed foods like chicken
nuggets and pizza. Allowing these foods in the schools is contributing to
unhealthy food habits by children and obesity. They could just spend a little
more money and give the schools vegetables and fruits, staple crops to provide
for their meals.
This information about the food industry definitely shows
how the politics tie to it by how the food industry’s mission is not the
publics’ health but the profit from it. A great point from Bittman’s article is
that by increasing junk food and sugar drinks prices there would be a decline
in diabetes, disease, and health care costs and that shows how those foods are
the part of the problem.
My research topic is basically about how majority of Americans
are sick from health-related diseases caused by the food the government and
health organizations are advertising and promoting. One resource I recommend
that has lots of information is the documentary film What the Health by Kip Andersen, which is available on Netflix.
The trailer to What the Heath makes the documentary seem very interesting! To believe that these health organizations that are SUPPOSED to help us but instead are being paid to not to. It's sad the way our government is behaving and I hope it changes sometime soon. But obviously we as citizens need to bring more awareness on the obesity epidemic in our country in order for something to change.
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