More and more people are becoming seriously overweight. Some people suggest that the solution to this problem is to increase the price of fattening foods. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In today's world,

obesity

is becoming a big

problem

in many parts of the world. Recently, the number of obsessed

people

is increasing so fast that some suggest that, the main culprits like fast

food

and unhealthy

food

, needed to be taxed to discourage

people

from consuming too much.

This

essay will try to argue that increasing the

price

of

junk

food

will not help

people

fight

this

obesity

crisis. In human history,

obesity

was never run rampant like

this

before. The

obesity

pandemic is a very modern

problem

, in the past, it is very hard to find poor

people

who were overweight

in contrast

to the present where most of the obsessed

people

come from low-income households. The main cause of

this

is that most of the time the only

food

these low-income

people

can afford is either low-quality and low-

price

fast

food

or heavily processed

food

that has low nutrition but high sugar and fat to compensate for the low-quality ingredient used to keep the

price

low. By levying the tax on

junk

food

industries it will, in reality, make the

problem

much worse than it already is. If

junk

food

increases in

price

then

it will force

people

who can bearly afford to consume

this

already low-quality product to find the even lower-quality alternative.

In contrast

, rather than put a tax on low-quality

food

it is better to spend money subsidizing or cutting taxes on healthy

food

options. If the root cause of

obesity

comes from overconsumption of low-quality consumption goods

then

the solution is to change the consumer choice. Since

food

is an essential part of life it is impossible to tell

people

to eat less expressly to those low-income who bearly scrape by even with low-cost fast

food

. Giving some incentives, like lowering taxes on healthier option products or subsidizing high-quality unprocessed ingredients, to fast

food

chains and

food

manufacturers to produce healthier products for the same

price

as the unhealthy product can help solve the overweight

problem

in the lower class who the most susceptible to the

obesity

pandemic. In conclusion . For many

people

being obsessed didn't come from their personal choice but the lack of choices that cause them to resort to fattening

food

for sustenance. By giving those

people

a healthier affordable option, it will help them much more in the long term than to just increasing the prices of

junk

food

which is their only option for

food

. And

that is

why I strongly disagree with increasing fast

food

prices as a solution to the

obesity

problem

.