In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind of food. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is a fact that our

food

greatly affects our

health

.

This

is the reason, some people believe that

their

in or at that place

there

should be a tax applied on junk

food

by the governments.

This

essay will discuss why I strongly agree with

this

stance because it is accumulating in our population and

also

affecting the

health

of our school going children. Eating fast

food

and processed

food

is extremely unhealthy for people of every age. They contain high amounts of unsaturated fats,

calories and

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calories, and

salts which in turn cause serious problems; the most common ones are cardiac arrest, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and obesity. The reason behind

this

Western influenced and sedentary lifestyle is that, fast

food

restaurants and companies providing frozen TV Dinners spend a bulk of their profit on advertising their

food

, which ultimately persuade people to buy them.

For example

, we can see that KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut

are

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is

always over crowded whenever we visit,

furthermore

, eating sausages, chilled or canned

food

like mushrooms and fish is now more trending in most families,

beacause

for the reason that; on account of

because

they are ready to use. The only solution to

this

problem is that governments should induce

taxes on

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taxes, on

manufacturers, sales tax could be raised in order to limit their sale with

result

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the result

that customers could be stopped. Another danger is for the children and adolescents who are provided with unhealthy

food

in their school cafeterias. It is observed that children of the age of 6-12 and

then

youngersters

a young person of either sex

youngsters

are seen to be fond of burgers and pizzas, but the problem is that

obesity rate

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the obesity rate

is

also

rapidly increasing in

this

age group. We can say that obesity

has now became

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has now become

epidemic

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an epidemic

which is spreading

fastly

with rapid movements

quickly

in various

continents especially

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continents, especially

in Europe, America and after that Asia. In 1975 according to estimates,

for

instance in

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instance, in

Pakistan, there were only 10% obese kids in

schools but

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schools, but

now

this

amount has expanded to 40%. The research

also

revealed that there are millions of kids falling every year into

health

hazards due to their bad eating

habbits

an established custom

habits

. To conclude, our body is regulated by what we eat, unhealthy and fat rich diet depleted our

health

. To solve

this

dilemma, governments should impose

duty

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a duty

duties

on fast

food

, processed and frozen meals. I believe it would be a positive step if it is taken by the authorities to alter our lifestyle and keeping our youth safe and healthy.