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McDonalds Obesity

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McDonalds Obesity

In this day and age Americans increase their awareness towards obesity, which is commonly experienced by adults who consume lots of fast food as their daily meals. The awareness of unhealthy living is later driven to the obesity in children. Children are the easiest targets for misdirected, fault influence from the television commercials. American culture allows the television viewers including children to worship convenience in watching TV and enjoying snacks, so that both children and parents love to snack all the time.

Obesity has been a linked to health problems such as heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, and strokes. Obese people are two to three times more likely to die young that people of normal weight. Obesity kills more than twice as many Americans every year as car accidents. According to one resent estimate, obesity is responsible for about 110,000 deaths every year in the United States. And that the estimate may be so low. Some Americans have gotten so big that they have to have their coffins supersized. ("Chew On This" 213)

In this day and age we have gotten into obesity so bad that in Western Martinsburg in1974 there was only farmland, and today there are highways and fast food stops all over that farm land. McDonalds products perhaps are not categorized into snacks, but they are convenient and tasty meals, which is quickly available, practical, completed with delivery service and cheap occasional packages for parties that

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