Essays on Healthier Foods

The campaign dubbed “healthier you” (HY) seeks to bring together various stakeholders from the Northeastern University to fight unhealthy eating and especially obesity. The realization that the university’s dining halls do not offer the students healthy food choices informs the campaign. The dining halls are filled with junk foods which are likely to make the students obese. The root of the problem of unhealthy eating in the university can be traced back to the policies that the university applies when renting out university space. Over the years, the policies look into whether an individual or an organization renting ...

Junk foods are among the leading causes of lifestyle diseases, which are responsible for the highest percentage of deaths among the young people. The problem begins at the seemingly innocent stages when they do not have any risk factors to the children. Growing children frequently feel hungry and hence raising the need to have ready snacks for them. Most parents give their children packed snacks in form of junk foods to carry to school and eat during breaks. Since the foods appear tastier than the healthy foods, the children get used to them and hence replacing them with other ...

I chose to write about healthier school lunches in the USA because it is a topic close to my heart. Being a health fanatic, I am intrigued and interested in having schools in the USA serve healthier meals in their cafeterias. It is vital to have students lead healthier lives and eat healthier foods in their school (Hellmich, USA Today). In my opinion, schools currently do not serve healthy meals. There is no variety of vegetables and other healthy meals in school cafeteria, hence the need to advocate for a change in menus and introduction of healthy meals. My ideologies are biased ...

There is no question that obesity is a prominent issue in America. Over one-third or 35.7% of adults are obese, leading to health problems such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, with medical costs linked to obesity estimated at about $147 billion dollars in 2008 (“Adult Obesity Facts” n.pag.). One method to combat obesity that is constantly being considered is a “fat tax” against various foods that are deemed unhealthy; the argument is that if unhealthy foods are more expensive, consumers will buy healthier foods instead. It sounds like a good idea because the taxes could be used to fund ...

Walmart is an American Multinational retailer corporation which was founded in 1962, deals with running of warehouses and large discount stores. This corporation was previously known as Wal-Mart store, Inc but was rebranded in 2008 to Walmart. According to Fortune Global 500 list this year, Walmart is the world’s third largest public corporation. More so, it is the largest retail shop worldwide and is the largest private employer with over two million employees. The company is more or less family-owned, controlled by the Walton family who own about 48% of the Walmart. The company has stores in 15 ...

The issues of dietary habits and the lifestyle are major concerns for people all over the world. More often than not, the concerns are mainly found in the people in their middle ages who find so many concerns in their bodies. Post pubertal people are majorly concerned about how their bodies look. In other cases, people in their adult years like checking their weight since no one wants to grow obese (Rozin, 236). As such, the individuals are ready to go to any extents to gain and maintain the perfect body image that everybody is after. For college students ...

Obesity tax

Obesity tax is a tax levied on fattening beverages or foods by tax authorities with the objective of discouraging unhealthy diets and internalizing the externalities and economic costs associated with obesity. Experts in public health are apprehensive about the obesity prevalence and are promoting obesity taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and fattening foods as a feasible public health solution to the obesity epidemic. This paper evaluates the economic reliability of imposing obesity taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and sugary foods in the United States as a measure to curb obesity. Several researches by medical experts indicate that there is a positive correlation between consumption ...

Obesity is becoming an epidemic in America – more than 30% of childhood diabetes cases are Type 2, a condition typically caused by poor diet (Zinczenko, 2002). The American fast food culture contributes to this level of obesity, as the combination of affordability, taste and convenience makes it easier for a family of any income level to feed themselves on fast food – however, it then becomes the responsibility of the individual to regulate their diet. Given the obesity statistics in American as they exist today, this is clearly not an option for many. What’s more, fast food companies are not providing ...