“I want a double Big Mac dad!” this statement
is where it all started. Last week, while trying to kill a few hours before a
movie, my girlfriend and I decided to get something to eat. Although eating fast
food may only be a bi-weekly event for us, we decided to take the easy way out
and get something to snack on at McDonalds. While in the line up we happened to
look upon, as I would say, “the fattest 4 year old I have ever seen.” ordering
a double Big Mac meal. I was in shock, half of the reason was because I could
not believe a child could eat this much, and the other half because I thought
it should be considered a form of child abuse to let your obviously obese child
eat this unhealthy. This made me think
of the movie “Supersize Me”, where the main character eats nothing but
McDonalds for an extended period of time, and how the “richer” countries binge
on food for fun. This would make me assume that less developed countries must
have a much lower rate of obesity because they cannot afford such luxuries. So,
I decided to make my research paper on “Obesity in developing and developed
countries”. In 2005, the World had an estimated 1.6 billion adults overweight;
among these at least four million people are said to be obese according to the World
Health Organization. With an estimated 500 million people underweight, the world’s
“diet” is far from perfected. It is important to know why people are becoming
so obese in recent years and what we can do to help this epidemic. This is
why I think this topic will be a good research essay.
So this is about the causes of obesity, I assume, in North America. This sounds good. However, the "what we can do to help" part could get dangerously preachy. In terms of the causes, you should remember that it is more than just diet. There are many traditional social and economic causes behind what is happening.
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