Strategy

I am planning on creating a survey that will help me see if fast food consumers are limited to mostly men or women as well as seeing the ages of people that are influenced by this eating behavior. I would also like to ask a question or two asking the tester why they may or may not enjoy eating fast food.

Second Semester Blog Project

    Write: Which method did you choose? Why? How do you plan to use it for your topic?

o     I want to use a survey to evaluate how many people out of the ones to take my survey eat fast food and if they do, how often. I am very interested to see if the results vary from male to female and ages well find out if people eat it out of taste preference or cost preference. I will create a survey and administer on a Google survey sheet with 20 people. 10 male, 10 female, 5 from each gender in highschool and 5 from the other gender as adults. 

When Did Obesity Become and Issue?

        Statistics show that obesity levels have never reached such alarming rates ever before in history than today. About 97 million adults in the United States, just over one-third, are obese according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If our eating habits keep up with the rate we are on, it is predicted that by 2030, this number will rise to about 42% or higher. The biggest questions are when and why?
        With the new advances of technology seen in computers, television, video games, ipads and cell phones, people have found new alternatives to staying inside laying on a couch rather than going outside and being active. This is one of the huge differences that has definitely taken its toll on the waistbands of many Americans. Another contributing factor is definitely the economy. Unhealthy food is cheap. Why would a person struggling to pay their bills feed their family expensive food from the grocery store when they could provide a huge cheeseburger and large fries for half the price and half the time by going to a fast food restaurant? Can people not afford to be healthy or do they just not care to be thin and look fit? There are so many factors that can lead to obesity but hopefully people will start to realize how tragic this epidemic actually has become.

This picture is very significant and sort of disturbing at the same time. I believe this is the perfect model showing how the image of overweight children has changed. In Willy Wonka, Agustus Gloop is portrayed in both versions of the movie as an overweight boy who loves to eat all kinds of chocolate and candy. These two images are shocking to look at because in only eight years, this is the new way overweight kids are portrayed. Will the results improve or will they get even worse in the future?

What is the problem?

I think one of the biggest question is why? What is different in America now than a couple of decades ago? This video gives several theories from scientists who are trying to figure out this growing epidemic

What Happened to Society?

In 1903, the largest man in the world at the time doesn't seem like something too much out of the ordinary for nowadays. In fact, its almost normal for people to be obese. What do we have to blame? Di we care less now? Do we not know any better? or is it just because unhealthy food is pretty cheap? How does it make any sense that we can buy a double cheese burger from McDonalds for $1 when an apple can be anywhere up to $1 a pound? Chances are if you are hungry and want the most out of your dollar, you would go for the cheese burger because it will actually fill your stomach. How do we stop this trend that seems to be on the rise?

Introduction

Obesity is a chronic disease affecting increasing numbers of children and adolescents as well as adults. Obesity rates among children in the U.S. have doubled since 1980 and have tripled for adolescents. About 17 percent of children aged 2 to 19 are considered overweight compared to over 66 percent of adults who are considered overweight or obese.