Introduction of my individual report "Fast food contaminating American children's health"

Today, obesity is an enormous issue for Americans. According to Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, the prevalence of obesity in the United States has doubled in the past two decades. Nearly 1/3 of adults are obese and 16% of children and adolescents are also overweight. The biggest reason of obesity is having too much calories from fast food and soda. To solve this problem radically, children's diet has to be improved. There are 2 reasons. First, in case of people who were highly-obese when their childhood, 40～85% of them become obesity again after they grow up. Second, human's taste is almost decided by what they eat untill the age of 14. For this reason, fast-food restaurants like Mcdonalds' especially want children to come as often as possible and continue eating their fast foods forever. On this research, I investigated how McDonalds', the biggest fast-food company in the world, get American children as customers and how it's been contaminated their health and lives.