video about fast food

     One of the reasons why fast food is so popular is because it is convenient and cheap. Also because of this reason, a lot of families choose to eat Fast Food, even though they know that it is not good for their health. I watched a video from YouTube in which a family drove a van and bought Fast Food in drive-through restaurant, and then they ate in the van. The mother Maria Andrea Gonzalez said that she knew that fast food would affect their health. In fact, her husband has diabetes already. She said that she felt guilty to let her husband and two daughters eat fast food. However, she doesn’t have time to cook, but because fast food is cheap, and the food is enough to feedthe whole family, so she still buy it. In the video, they show the audience the price of fruit and vegetables is high. Compared to fast food, those healthy foods are more expensive. Oppositely, soda, is much cheaper. The reason that soda is cheap is because its main ingredient, sugar is cheap. Sugar is made out of corn and the government gives subsidy to the corn industry to help them. However, the government’s main income is from tax. That means every tax payer has alredy paid for soda. Just because soda is very cheap, some fast food restaurant offer soda free in meals to make their food more attractive. The situations of families like Maria’s family is very common in America. Maria’s husband has diabetes disease. He needs 200 dollars for his medicine, so his family has to save money to buy his medicine. For those reason, the family has to choose cheaper food such as Fast Food. This situation becomes a vicious circle. Like Schlosser said “the less money you pay, the bigger you are”, and when people get bigger, they are more prone to get diseases. According to the film, “1 in 3 Americans born after 2000 will contract early onset diabetes...Among minorities, the rate will be 1 in 2”. For decades, fast food has already affected the health of generations. If there are no solutions, the hidden dangers of fast food will affect the health of our future generation.