In order to combat America's growing obesity epidemic, we must educate students about healthy food and unhealthy food, because if students get more knowledge about the food they eat, they can avoid getting Obese by eating junk food and do not do exercises.
    In the past years, Americans did not care about unhealthy food; they just ate anything they wanted, a couple of years after many people including children got overweight because they ate mostly unhealthy food and the government taxed healthy food. That’s why many people spend more money and junk food instead of healthy food. For example, if you go to A fast-food restaurant, you can spend $10 dollars and get 8 cheeseburgers, otherwise if you want to eat healthy food you have to spend $30 dollars or more. That is why people prefer unhealthy food. In the article “Attacking Obesity Epidemic”, Jane E. Brody asserts that if we keep eating unhealthy food many people will die from heart attacks, diabetes, or other diseases.  For Americans, this means a lot for them because if they do not care about their health they can die.
    The consequences of obesity are manifold. In many articles and surveys tell us that many people like to eat unhealthy food, for example, fast food restaurants, coca-cola, etc. Also, the schools give a lot of junk food, and that’s why many children and teenagers are gaining weight, and the obesity epidemic is growing instead to stop it. For example, we did a survey at San Marcos High School that ask the students what do they eat every day, the most common answer was junk food.
    We can help them by giving them healthy food, take the children's out to do exercise like for 30 minutes or more. For adult people just have to eat healthy food because in that way their children see that healthy food is good for them. Also, the government should tax unhealthy food because healthy food is too expensive and people prefer to eat junk food. Schools have to give healthy food too and teach them about the benefits of healthy food and what are the effects of junk food.  In that way, kids and teenagers will eat healthily and we can combat the obesity epidemic and have a healthy country. Â
    This proposal is to take place in the obesity epidemic and make a healthy country if people do not agree with, can be because they do not care about their body, I just can I say that if they want a healthy life and see healthy their children's is to do exercise every day and eat healthy to have good health. Also make sure to buy healthy food besides junk food, although healthy food is more expensive you should buy it.
    The conclusions are that unhealthy food is really dangerous and many people died by eating it, also to prevent kids from obesity is that schools should give healthy food, make them run, and educate about what food is healthy and what food is not, and give them examples of how unhealthy food is dangerous.
