My global issue is obesity. One side to the story and concern around obesity would be that we as a nation are promoting bad eating habits. Mcdonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and many other fast food chains have very unhealthy food and don't really promote eating right and a balanced diet. These fast food chains make it easy access to Americans and could be making our nation fat. The advertisements for these foods are everywhere and encourage us almost to not eat right. They also offer many sizes of things that we can get. Almost all of these places offer options that can super size things and there are constantly deals on things that if you get one you can get another for free. And now Michelle Obama is getting involved and wanting meals to be healthier which is seeing some back lash.
Other people would argue that it is our own right to eat and do whatever we want and the government should stay out of it and allow us to consume what we want on a daily basis. That would also argue that maybe the place itself should offer more healthy food and we should not have to worry about consuming something that is so many calories from having a simple meal. There are some Americans that don't see the issue as a huge problem and if someone wants to eat a hamburger that is 1000 calories than they have every right to.
This topic can cause a lot of controversy simply because for most people weight is a sensitive issue and there are many factors that could play into weight gain. But from statistics we can definitely determine that weight has become a serious problem in the United States.
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