Today, many people eat fast foods instead of home made food. The reason is that fast food is fast, cheap and convenient. However; at the same time, fast food is contributing to a big social problem in the U.S, which is obesity, and recently some people are beginning to sue the fast food companies for causing them obesity. Should the fast food companies have responsibility for people’s obesity? My answer to this argument is “NO”. I think that whether people eat fast food or not is an individual choice. There are many people who eat fast food but are not obese. They may do some exercises for burning calories, or thy not to eat fast food as much as they can, caring for their health. Moreover; some fast food companies serve relatively healthy foods, such as Baja Fresh, Subway and so on. Even though do not have enough money on time to eat except fast food, they can choose those fast food shops. Therefore; the responsibility of obesity should be taken by obese people, though fast food companies should also take actions to decrease the number of these people by showing their food’s calories, serving healthy food, and giving more choices.
As I said before, in the U.S some people are filling suits against fast food companies for causing their obesity and related sickness. It is clear that fast food is not so good for our health. Fast food contains a lot of sodium, fat and cholesterol, and these ingredients’ makes us overweight. Therefore, some people think that fast food companies should be responsible for the negative effects. However, people who decide to eat it or not, are us. Even though some advertisements do not say their fast food is healthy. Moreover, it has been often said that fast food has bad effects for our health, through newspaper, television and other media. Most people should know these facts. To add to that, as I mentioned before, there are some fast food shops which serve healthy foods compared to other fast food shops, so if people are really concerned about their health, they can choose those fast food shops. Therefore the problem should attributed no to the fast companies, but to individual choice.
The causes of the obesity problem are related to the life style and culture in the U.S, in the end, the responsibility for the problem should be attributed to individual choice, such as what people eat or do not eat. The reason is that we have to take responsibility for our choice as a part of our given liberty. In some other countries, people have longed for the liberty found in the U.S, but American people attribute their obesity problem to fast food companies, they will be the beneficiaries of people’s liberty without taking responsibility for their choice.
In the case of children, parents must assure responsibility for the choices of their children. Parents should monitor their children’s diet. My parents don’t allow me to eat fast food. Although I wanted to go to fast food restaurants, as my parents taught me the negative effects of fast food, I lost interest in it. As if when I lost interest fast food, I worry about my health a whole lot, and started to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which are healthy for our health and immune system, and that does not cause obesity or other diseases. I know many parents feed their children more fast food than home made food, because in a lot of cases parents work all day and others are lazy to cook and just buy refrigerated food which affects them selves and their children.
To conclude, I believe that people should not attribute their obesity problem to fast food companies, even though the fast food companies proved food which is what causes the negative effects on health. The most important reason is that obesity is the result of individual choices based on liberty. We must take the responsibilities for our choices when given the individual liberty of choice. The obesity problem in the U.S is related to life style, not just food consumption. Nevertheless, it is unfair to wide obesity problems only on fast food companies.
