Fast Food Nation With A Diet Addiction

Have you ever been watching TV and then actually payed attention when the commercials come on? Other than the car advertisements every other one is for an affordable diet plan or the new value menu at Wendy's or the improved Bowflex or this season's sundae at Sonic. Conflicting messages?...I'd say so.

I find it almost comical that the media along with the fashion industry disperse the message that beauty is being frail thin and the current in look is a skeleton. Yet the fast food and restaurant industries are constantly advertising their products and inviting you in with low cost deals and of course the apparent notion that people are obsessed with fried, fatty foods. Fast food industries thrive off of society's lower class and people who cannot afford to shop at Trader Joe's therefore resort to the McDonald's drive thru for a double-double and a 16 oz. cup full of thick sugary liquid. Fast food is convenient, it tastes amazing, and it is everywhere. Driving around I can spot a Jack in the Box and then drive three blocks only to come across another one, of course in between those three blocks was a Taco Bell, Burger King, and Carl's Jr. 

So how is that the people on TV, the glamorous celebrities, and the gorgeous models of our time are covering the magazine covers with stories of eating disorders and pictures of protruding spines, collar bones, and hips?? How does a young girl who begs her mother for a McDonald's happy meal, look up to and idolize a celebrity who is in rehab for starving herself? We are constantly surrounded with pizza-any and every topping, french fries, mozzarella sticks, bacon burgers, chalupas, buffalo wings, chicken strips, etc etc etc...and then told to look like a certain way, look like Jessica Alba look like Matthew McConaughey because that's what is attractive, but what they don't tell you is that they're not in that drive thru for that double-double. Which results in people turning to all these diets- Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, SlimFast, and Weight Watchers. There's an outbreak of obesity throughout America and then there's teens suffering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. How can we continue in a world where the size double zero is the new four, fasting is a trend, but fast food establishments overwhelm our streets, televisions, and minds?