Fast food has been proven to be the main and other diet-related of eating an excessive amount of fast food has never lost momentum. One school of thought holds that education can rectify this situation; however, there is still much scepticism about the effect of education. In this essay, both of these viewpoints will be analysed.
On the one hand, education can stop people from further damaging their health by consuming fast food. Although many eat fast food because of its affordability, the root cause of this lies in the fact that they are not adequately educated about the damaging consequences of junk food benefits of healthy eating. According to recent studies conducted in the neighbourhoods where fast food stores are easily accessible, more than of the residents know or care little about what they are consuming and how it can affect their health.
On the other hand, education alone will not work. The fact is that many people who are aware of the consequences of eating junk food are . In other words, they are often in denial and convince themselves that unhealthy habits are not as terrible as the media want them to believe. Secondly, it is very difficult for fast food eaters to reduce their dependency on fast food because it contains many addictive artificial flavours.
To conclude, education is one viable solution to put a stop to the obesity epidemic, but it does not suffice. I feel that more efforts should be made to combat obesity.