Food & Nutrition

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HMW solve challenges facing our world today?

Explain three factors contributing to America’s food and nutrition issues.

Sugar. High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Super-size me ---are all challenges facing our world today. As a result, there are more reasons why Americans are facing health and obesity issues today. So, what can we do about it?

Select two films and two articles to include in your upcoming essay, on the topic above.

Fast food companies still target kids with marketing for unhealthy productsIn 2012 the fast food industry spent $4.6 billion to advertise mostly unhealthy products, and children and teens remained key audiences for that advertising.

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