CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY “SUPERSIZE ME”
Obesity is a major health problem in the United States; over 60% of adult Americans are obese. Obesity can lead to an array of other diseases, an increased risk of illness and premature death. Fast foods are one of the root causes of this problem, but most people don't know the harmful effects of food on them, the idea of the documentary is to prove that eating 30 days in Mc Donald can be terrible to health and the target is to show the principal causes of this experiment, at first the obesity, then heart problems and finally mood changes.
The fast food restaurants knows that the American people doesn´t feel satisfied when it comes to food, so they invented a strategy that it are showing so bad results in the health and the weight of the people, the big sizes combos, like in Mc Donald are making that the people always wants to eat more and more, and it is making big troubles in the health of the people, and its very important understand that this healthy troubles are visible from early ages, it is making a wrong culture to the kids, that the pleasure is in the abundance, so if they eat more, they are going to feel more satisfied, but does not matter how much they ate they also are going to want to eat more, even if they feel full. It is causing obesity problems in the weight of the kids and all the people. Big sizes that always are going to be big and obese bodies, and now a lot of this kind of people are presenting self-esteem problems, and this kids are growing with wrong feelings about them self.
Some studies demonstrate that fast food make people suffer obesity, It is worrying because in the south U.S.A. many people have this problem. Children do not feel good with themselves too, it makes them get addicted to fast food; obesity is really common on the south of U.S.A. because a lot of fast food restaurant are there, people do not care about themselves and their health they just eat food that they really like as a taste no as health.
Food with high content of fat and sugar in the brain causes the same effects of drug addiction due to this stimulate opiodies or "pleasure chemical" in the brain, the fast food intake makes the body itself does not have time to implement mechanisms of satiety, so you end up eating "a lot more than they otherwise would have done.
The fats are less satiating than protein, so to feel the sensation of satiety higher intake is needed. Mainly the sugar contained in foods such as sodas make a person feel in the mood quickly changes when consume feel a great joy and let them have feelings of anxiety and depression.
In conclusion, we can observe how excessive consumption of this kind of food generates serious problems, that not only affect physical health but that also affects the emotional one. This previous statement, because this food contains too many calories, fat and salt, then it is clear that it is a big problem when people make a habit of replacing normal basic food with fast food. This is how a nutritional instability takes place in the organism. So it is advisable to not exaggerate with the consumption of this food and if you like it a lot it would be better for you to eat it once in a while.
