I just watched "Super Size Me" yesterday and it got me thinking. Is the food industry responsible for the obesity epidemic? My answer is no. I do believe the fast food market does need to accept responsibility for sustaining the obesity epidemic and keeping the market uneducated, there are other factors that should be held responsible for making obesity an actual epidemic. Let's look at the dates. Obesity rates did not change their growth excessively until 1997. Looking at this, we have to think about what changed then. During this time, the advancement of the internet and television began. This created the idea that, with our free time, we should stay home or get together with friends only to watch tv, or play on a LAN. It made the idea of taking a trip to the mall or having a night on the town a rarity.
While McDonald's and the rest of the fast food industry should be held responsible for some things, the obesity epidemic is not one of them. The obesity epidemic can be firmly planted on our society and essentially on ourselves.
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