Second Post for April 16

The research over the past few days has taught me a lot of valuable information that I may potentially use in my paper. Some of the things that I may use in my paper, which I just recently learned include: obesity factors and on sets, the nutrition of fast food and the amount of consumption per person, as well as advertisement of fast food chains. There are many factors to the cause of obesity, I thought that genetics was a direct cause of obesity, yet I found out that it is only an underlying cause. The nutrition of the meals from fast food chains is one of the major causes for the sky rocketing increase of obesity. In the world today, adolescents have an increased intake of sweetened beverages, French fries, pizza, and fast food entrees, and a consequent inadequate intake of recommended fruits, vegetables, dairy foods, whole grains, lean meats, and fish. Most fast food is bought on impulse and without any thought about the nutritional values. Personally, I rarely eat at fast food restaurants due to the unearthliness of its nature. The fast food restaurants advertise more towards the younger generation. If you think about it, in Happy Meals, from McDonalds, they have commercials all the time airing about the new line of toy that will be put in the Happy Meals for a limited time and you can only get them until supplies last.
In the beginning, I was going to focus on the causes and preventions of obesity. Now, I am finding so much information about the correlation of fast food and obesity that I believe that I will be sticking with that as the main focus point of my essay.
Thus far, the working point of the thesis is… Obesity is not only caused by genetics; it is also caused by the choices people make. I still have to tie in fast food and nutrition into my thesis.