Why is it necessary for children and adults alike to gorge themselves on fast food daily? The truth of the matter is that fast food is easily attainable and relatively cheap, to very big factors driving the eating habits of modern people. In some places where the poverty rate is high or in families that don't have the common dinner time, children are accessing and consuming the cheapest and sometimes only source of nutrition, fast food. The popularity of this now fast food nation has given a rapid increase in childhood type 2 diabetes. Since 1994 the percentage of type 2 diabetes has increased by 25%. That means one quarter of children in the United States have a form of diabetes not caused by genetics but possible over eating or poor nutrition.
To help stop this rapidly increasing occurrence parents and school officials need to take a more active role in supplying the children in their lives with healthier food and a greater knowledge of what a healthy diet really is and can do for you.
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