Unhealthy Society
We have entered into a society with an indulgence for quick and easy food. Today, unhealthy food choices have been made too convenient, and this is perhaps a response to the increasingly hectic, fast paced world of work. The nine-to-five work day is no longer the norm. Time constraints, cheap and abundant fast food and the constant bombardment of media images and advertisements have negatively affected our diets and overall health over the years.In today's world, there are many single parent families, and in most traditional households, both of the parents work. Parents are now more pressured for time, and busy schedules leave little opportunity for preparing nutritious, home cooked meals. We are no longer on a regular nine to five clock anymore: conflicting schedules, working two jobs, attending meetings, and driving the kids to soccer practice can take up a lot of time and energy. Picking up a pizza is so much easier, especially for a single mother who is assuming the roles of breadwinner and child care provider. Even in dual parent families, we are seeing fewer stay-at-home mothers whose primary responsibility is to
We are constantly bombarded with images of the latest products on the market. As soon as McDonald's comes out with a new McChicken sandwich, we see billboards, television commercials and radio ads advertising their product. Further, once a fast food novelty emerges and achieves some success, competing franchises are quick to follow suit. This marketing frenzy creates a need for the new sandwich. What results is not only a glut of media imagery of unhealthy food choices packaged as 'fast' and 'convenient,' but also a weakening of our ability to distinguish one deep-fried chicken sandwich from the next. We see also how franchises aspire to have their restaurants in every town. Can you think of any city in Ontario that does not have its own McDonald's (or two)? We are surrounded everywhere with fast food restaurants and convenience food. When Coca-Cola decided to enter the Japanese market, their goal was to have a Coke machine within arms' reach, wherever you were. Fast food chains provide us with choices, but these options make it too easy to live an unhealthy lifestyle. The poor choices we make in our daily diet are not
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Approximate Word count = 762
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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