Food Issue Essay: Should access to healthy food be available to everyone?

by Amine Abdelouahid

Access to healthy foods should definitely be open and free to the public. Some people in the country and on this earth do not have any food. For example in some parts of Africa some colonies do not even have anything to drink. Hungry people would do anything to get their hands on something to eat, if it is grain, water, or anything at all. So if people do not have any food to eat, they are not thinking of the health, they are thinking of getting food into their body’s. So the problem is not only do people eat healthy, but do they eat at all.

People that do not have access to healthy foods might be poor, or they just do not want to eat healthy. Healthy foods are really important to your health, eating fast foods all the time could really jeopardize your health and could lead you to different dangerous diseases. Some families do not always have the choice of eating healthy or even eating at all. Studies show that eating healthy can be 4 times more expensive than eating fast foods, but can also be a lot more healthy. At McDonalds it is 1$ for McChicken, in a McChicken there is enough salt to fill up a small cup all the way to the top. But in a grocery store you can only buy one pound of broccoli for 3.99$. which is really expensive.

Even though healthy foods are really good for you they can get a little pricey. So people that can not afford the healthy food at a safe way, then you should at least get something healthy at the fast foods that you are going to eat at. The problem that we have is that people do not have the access to healthy food, so normally people that do not have access to these foods are people that could not afford healthy foods, so those people go eat at McDonalds or other fast foods like this so they get sick really fast, and catch really harmful diseases.

People that eat these harmful fast foods on a daily bases have a really high percentage of getting diseases like type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure, just diseases like that could make a human pass away. Some hard working people do not have the money for healthy food so they eat fast food and once they start eating lots of fast food they risk their chances of diabetes and health issues and once they start risking health issues they pass away. So it is all leading one thing to another. Family with these hard decisions should try to start planting their own vegetables and fruits so they can have a healthy thing in their body. These are small tips to live a really long healthy life.

However even if people do not have the money or the time to go to the grocery store and buy healthy foods, it is not an excuse not to have healthy fruits at a fast food or to try to reduce the amounts of how much you eat. People should also try there best to reduce the quantity of their foods. If people start to do this then their will be less child obesity and less diseases.