AWARENESS REGARDING JUNK FOOD

Awareness Regarding Junk Food

Awareness Regarding Junk Food

Introduction

In today's health-conscious society, healthy eating customs are considered as a crucial component for a creative healthy way of living. Healthy eating is encouraged because of the boost rate in body fatness over the nation. This fatness outbreak or obesity is the main reason behind people getting diabetes, cardiac difficulties and more health difficulties associated to being overweight.

Fast food, fast and quick-to-eat, is generally regarded as not-so-good. Most of the individuals willingly accept it as a proper diet. It is easy to eat, apparently quickly to have, usually at hand, always has a predictable and uniform "attribute" across the world. It is normally cheaper - at least nominally (though, Schlosser describes that many hidden costs are also included in this).

So “fast food - love it or maybe not” the book by Eric Schlosser vows to unveil the darker side of U.S. meals history which are being delivered to the people. This surely is, more often than not, a very ugly and dirty story, leaving behind a bitter afterimage. Schlosser is by no means the first person to have looked into the theme, but Schlosser does well to provide an updated account of the situation, in-depth and well written. Keeping in view the quality and fame of junk-food and the quantity digested by Native Americans and more and more people across the globe, there is vital piece of info that eagerly needs to be spread and narrated among the worldwide consumers. Although most of the people seem reluctant to hear it but even then Schlosser's book covers most of the irregularities of fast-food culture. Along with all the other things, he discussed: how and why this culture developed, the prevailing work practices in the fast-food places, the manipulation in taste of food, modernized agriculture, advertising on television, health matters and the spread of fast food for abroad. (Tichi, 2004, 12-20)

The book is a worthy effort to make the American consumers think and make strike their feelings and give a warning to the world as a whole. Hopefully, the author gathers an audience and wins over at least some of the consumers to alter their approach and behavior. But we're not holding our breath. (Kroc, 1992, 2-20)

Author's writing Recognition and Comparison

Eric Schlosser has been writing for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996 where he has a list of writings, which he has done for them, including the famous article written about the American food industry in 2001. What was set out to be a simple article, it went beyond just that and made the Ney York Times best sellers list for almost two years. As well as appearing on the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, and Publishers Weekly, as well as bestsellers lists around the world. Schlosser came from a liberal upbringing being based in New York and Los Angeles. This liberal upbringing makes it seem as though Schlosser is somewhat of an ...