It is not a secret that obesity is becoming more and more important problem in the modern society. We can evidence numerous cases of obesity among different age levels in the US. One of the possible reasons is the wide-spread chain of fast food restaurants and fast food mentality developed in new generations due to advertisement and convenience of fast food solutions.
A lot of people do not realize the effect of junk food on the operational system of our bodies and do not give enough attention to the healthy diet. On early stages we may not notice significant changes, as our body is able to fight against external influence and misbalancing factors. The impact that fast food has on our organism is, however, significant and no one can survive eating these type of food for long.
In the scale of this analysis it was decided to arrange the survey within the sample of Philadelphia population. It showed us the following results:
• 12% of the population believe that junk food is not harmful at all.
• 35% of the respondents believe that fast food is a good solution, when you are limited on time and, in fact, is not as harmful as some of the researches try to show.
• 53% of the population are aware of the negative impact of fast food on human body, but still eat it from time to time.
Based on these findings, we decided to…