As a college student, you need to find a lunch or dinner cheap and fast. Usually when I go from class to class I have limited time to eat lunch so I usually eat at fast food place. Since I don’t have much time or money, I would go to McDonalds or one of the fast foods places that in the area. Plus, I work at McDonalds so I often get discounted or free food from there. $5 can get you more food such as Big Mac, medium fries and a drink at McDonalds than at a different place where you can just get a salad. By eating out at fast food places than making a healthy choice, leans to eating more industrial foods and less naturally made foods. Which also leads to Obesity.
Obesity just keeps growing in the United States. The reason mostly because of the cost. People say how they want to be healthy and have home cooked meals but in reality it is hard to keep to that choice when 2 cheeseburgers at McDonalds is $2 while a small sub can be $5 or more. Obesity is connected with high calorie crops and sugary foods. which is also connected with industrialized foods. To decrease obesity, healthy foods need to cost less so people can stick to be healthy and not feel like they have to buy fast food or unhealthy choices.
Hey Emaleigh,
I really enjoyed your post, especially the connection you drew from unhealthy eating and how cheap these foods are. It’s very easy to see how people can feel very enticed by these cheap, unhealthy foods. The cheaper they are, the more accessible it is to everyone, and some people make the economic decision to concede their health in favor of money. I believe we have a culture that emphasizes making money at cost to ourselves, so it can be easy to fall into this trap.
Ryan Gebhardt
Here’s a link to my blog post if you’d like to check it out:
http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/03/04/ryan-gebhardt-the-virtue-of-moderation/
Hi Emaleigh my name is Peter Han and I am intending on majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. My post was also about college students and how we have a limited amount of time to eat as well as a lower budget. As you mentioned Mcdonalds is a big part of a college students diet as it is cheap and easy to eat. I talked about Canyon pizza and related it to this issue. Obesity is a major problem in the United States because of the cost of food as you mentioned. It is a lot easier to get unhealthy foods in this country. The cost of healthy foods must decrease in order for it to become a social norm. Here is a link to my blog: http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/03/04/food-choice-and-social-norms-peter-han/
Hi. my name is Jiye Choi. i’m studying energy engineering.
I think fast food is the most common social norms today. I read my post that related to fast food. I understand it is hard to get a good meal during the day when you have classes. obesity became huge problem all over the place. we need to start moving toward healthy food to be healthy. I heard many food undergo very dirty processes. http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/03/04/learning-activity-6-jiye-choi/ here is my post I wrote about my experience as a vegan if you want to check out.