Since the 1950s, American cuisine has had drive-up restaurants, milkshakes, fries, burgers, dripping Coney Islands – kinds of food that save the time. Apparently, this has been America’s characteristics manner of preparing the food – the so-called Fast food. Fast food is acknowledged as the epitome of the American life. Fast food risks American to have an obesity outbreak. People should really think thoroughly before regularly consuming such food, say from have a huge gulp of sweet soda to have burgers as snacks or main meals, and end up in having obesity.

There has been a major link between such food and abnormal overweight. This makes the manner of American dining as well as American health noteworthy to world specialists. Out of all the American population, 60M is considered obese. The second place is occupied by Australia. This health problem has become a world phenomenon as the eating style rapidly spread in accordance with the sprout of such food throughout the world. Nonetheless, there’s no way that we can blame McDonaldization or globalization.

The main reasons why fast food is eaten by many people, not only American, are that this food is hot, tasty and greasy, constant and convenient. It doesn’t change for years so that the burger you eat when you were a child tastes the same nowadays. The way it is prepared which is so simple makes it occupy a higher position as it can cope with the fast-paced lifestyle, in which minimum fuss in this worthy time so valuable. So, there’s a joy of indulgence there. But, let’s consider the consequences, in which obviously obesity is one of them, you have to face when you decide to pick this kind of food.

Primary is over-indulgence. This type of food is not only expensive and isolating, but also tolerant to over-eating. Sometimes being able to have yourself a treat can overcome your guilt. However, is that truth can really put aside your thought of giving too many burdens to your healthy body? Can you handle the guilt when your body starts to decay due to the unhealthy lifestyle you’ve chosen?

There’s one point to be noted here: that today fast food and obesity has become acceptable, even encouraged socially. You’ll see that there are now wardrobes for oversized people available so that they don’t have to lose weight to look “beautiful”. Some people call the result of that lifestyle as expression, freedom or even equality. There are commercials telling you to taste the latest dessert or urging you to have a plus size on your meal. It all seems natural – that it’s just fine to have that dining way. But, it’s not right. You may consume fast food, but don’t have it as a regular meal. Fat people should not be detested, but this doesn’t mean we cannot help them in being healthier. Fast food can be seen as way of life, but obesity should also be seen as what it is, that it’s a health problem, a disease.