HW 5 - Dominant Discourses Regarding Contemporary Foodways in the U.S.

Obesity in America is probably the most likely talked topic because half of the Americans in the world today eat to much fast food and less exercise. Now and days you see on TV the fattest guy on earth weighing like 700 pounds who lies in bed all day and eats a whole two cheeseburgers, and a whole pack of twelve donuts, and then they worry about dying and then need surgery because they eat to much. America enforces kids to be active because of obesity but back in the 1990s which is when most of us were growing up they didn't have those kind of advertisements. They enforced it less twenty years ago but now they enforce it more to make sure kids live healthier. http://www.drkalsweightlosstips.com/obesity-in-america.html

Doctors, nutritiousness would of course get quoted if they are informing anybody about a certain thing that's going on. Like in Dr.Phil they was this overweight four year old who weighs 150 pounds. Or in any show or newspaper they would have a section talking about obesity, or a disease and there will be a doctor on the show explaining the symptoms of a certain disease, or if its about obesity they talk about ways to stop getting over eating, and weighs to exercise to lose the extra weight. And sometimes Americans will listen but then there will be ads on TV like Jenny Craig or like some magical medicine that will make you lose weight in about two weeks without exercising, and people will fall for it and buy it and then notice it does nothing, of course advertisements almost always have paid actors in order to persuade people on certain magically medicines for losing weight or to get a vaccine for the flu but they hardly ever mention the side effects after.http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/1153/?id=1153&showID=121

If it wasn't for McDonald's or any other fast food place and if people were thought to eat healthier and knew what went into making these so called "delicious" foods, then maybe people would be eating fast food way less and people in America would be slimmer. Major problems in America will always require the right solution if its not obesity its a new disease or what not. Until people find out they have either diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a huge risk of having a heart attack then that's when people get scared and then they start to take action. People don't care about what they eating and if they get fat until they hear from their doctor or nutritiousness that they are in a risk of a ton of problems that will most likely cause them to die. People are afraid of the word death and when they know they're in risk of dying; that's when they take action after they know they pushed the certain limit.