Obesity in America
Obesity is spreading rapidly and is becoming a massive problem in America. "In the early 1970s, 14 percent of the population was classified as medically obese. Today, obesity rates are two times higher" (Elgar 15). According to the movie "Super Size Me", America is the leading nation with the highest obesity rate in the world. As alarming as that sounds, the obesity rate in the United States is only increasing by the minute. In the movie, a scientific study was conducted to show the effects of a person eating unhealthy fast food on a regular basis. Morgan, a Caucasian man in his thirties, was monitored by various different doctors concerning his eating habits. He was required to eat food from McDonald's for thirty days consecutively, three times a day. One of the doctor responded to Morgan by saying that he either had to stop eating food with such high amounts of oil, sugar, and fat, or the result of his poor eating habit could end up tragic.......
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