Fast food companies are increasing their targeting in the poorest areas of the country. In effect, the main consumers of that low nutritional food are low-income residents who don’t pay attention to fats as long as they eat and get satisfied. Low-income consumers should follow more dietary recommendations to eat healthier such as grains, less fat and sugar. The community must be impacted by advertisements and suggestion on the availability and cost of healthier food.
Fast food corporation’s developers found a target in those low-income consumers and their need of finding cheap food on their way home or after school. In addition, fast food restaurants got innovated meals enlarging it with the famous supersize, which means getting the double of soda and fries potatoes. Customers think they are making a good deal “supersizing” the meal for just 79 cents, but they don’t realize at the moment the price they will pay by putting their own health in jeopardy.
A diet high in sodium, calories, carbohydrate and fat saturated results in health problems such as high blood pressure, anticipated diabetes and circulation disorders. In consequence, being the consumers the low-income population the cost goes on the public Health Department. Customer and common people don’t take in count that a diet high in glucose and fat saturated will harm their health faster and easier than cooking at home. Having an appropriated and balanced diet people would live longer and wouldn’t crowd hospitals.
The main solutions to this problem are regulation and education. Those corporations pay high salaries to developers to market and position their products, the same way; they should find developers and Scientifics to improve the quality of their food, to make it harmless to the customers. In addition, education is a critic point in this situation. Uneducated people don’t eat healthy because of their ignorance; as a result, they get sick easier becoming an elevated cost to Health Department.
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