Eating Greasy Foods with Type 2 Diabetes

After analyzing Mark Bittman’s article “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables, along with Alice Waters and Katrina Heron’s “No Lunch Left Behind”, both authors convey their distaste for the government’s lack of actively enforcing healthy alternatives and opportunities for Americans. To elaborate, Bittman explains how the government should implement taxes on unhealthy and processed foods to encourage a decrease in their sells, by doing so there would be a great decrease in dietary diseases. He supports his argument through several implications of how this phenomenon would impact the American population, as he states how “a 20 percent increase in the price of sugary drinks nationally could result in about a 20 percent decrease in consumption… which could prevent 1.5 million Americans from being obese…”; with this statistical data, Bittman illustrates the great impact that taxing unhealthy foods may have if executed. Furthermore, Waters and Heron convey how the current system for school lunches must be scratched and replaced with a new, and improved program. The two authors describe ways in which healthy eating can be applied within the school setting, they note how programs such as the National School Lunch Program simply supply school districts with foods that “routinely fail to meet basic nutritional standards”; as a result, American children are victims of poor eating within the school setting and increase their likelihood of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

The writers all demonstrate the changes ourgovernment must take in order to truly provide the American people with a healthy, full lifestyle. The information they provided helps further my research as it’ll help support my position in the impact systematically placed fast food restaurants have on minority communities. Other sources that have helped me support my position includes: https://cleanair.camfil.us/2017/10/13/fast-food-emissions-killing-us/ which speaks on behalf of the harmful gases that fast food restaurants emit.