Does Fast Food Cause Obesity?
Does the available evidence support the idea that fast food causes obesity?
Fast Food and Obesity
- Read some opposing articles and see if anyone comes up
with
PROOF that fast food causes obesity. Explain your
answer clearly and completely.
Remember that SAYING something is not the same as PROVING that thing.
If you're not sure about what constitutes proof that A causes B, review lct_correlation.htm
Links
Fast
Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America
https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1479-5868-3-2
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/1/112.short
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2008.137638
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00477.x/full
http://ahp.sagepub.com/content/19/2/137.short
http://www.obesityaction.org/educational-resources/resource-articles-2/nutrition/fast-food-is-it-the-enemy
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Obesity-and-Fast-Food.aspx
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/cheap-food-blamed-americas-obesity-crisis-n112141
http://www.bariatric-surgery-source.com/fast-food-cause-obesity.html
https://www.princeton.edu/~jcurrie/publications/fastfood.pdf
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/24/fast-food-fat-profits.aspx
http://www.medicaldaily.com/fast-food-candy-and-soda-may-not-be-causing-obesity-america-so-whats-really-driving-360286
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/24/fast-food-fat-profits.aspx
http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/health/childhood-obesity%20/the-fast-food-trap-how-commercialism-creates-overweight-children
Pick one article from the pro side and one from the con side, and
determine which one makes the better case in the issue of whether or
not soda pop causes obesity. Remember to decide on the basis of which
side produces the best actual evidence, and do not be seduced by those
who make unsupported claims, or who make you feel that they are right.
Soda Pop and Obesity
Pick one article from the pro side and one from the con side,
and determine which one makes the better case in the issue of whether
or not soda pop causes obesity. Remember to decide on the basis of
which side produces the best actual evidence, and do not be seduced by
those who make unsupported claims, or who make you feel that they are
right.
Pro Side
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/sodaloving-americans-need-to-rethink-their-drink-2347704.html
Con Side
http://researchdemystified.org/2013/01/soda-obesity-food-stamps-oh-my/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17383789
http://fanaticcook.blogspot.com/2011/04/blaming-soda-or-pop-or.html
Other sources about obesity
and soda.
http://www.samsungscreen.com/category/Does_Soda_Cause_Obesity.html
http://www.samsungscreen.com/category/Soda_Leads_to_Obesity.html
Tips
If the average person who consumes fast food is no more likely to be
obese than the average person who doesn't consume fast food, then fast
food does not cause obesity.
If someone says
there's a correlation, but doesn't prove there's a
correlation, you should conclude that fast food doesn't cause obesity.
If someone says
there's evidence
of a correlation, but doesn't provide any actual evidence,
then they haven't
proved anything, and you should conclude that fast food doesn't cause
obesity.
If you have time, visit a few fast food restaurants, and then
check out a few non-fast food restaurants, and various grocery stores,
and ask yourself, is the distribution fat and skinny people different in fast
food joints than in other sources of food? If it isn't, then fast food
is no more
associated with obesity than slow food, which proves that fast food doesn't cause
obesity.
If fast food joints have a generally fatter clientele than
slow food joints, ask yourself if anyone has proved that these
fatter people would be skinnier
if they were forced to consume only slow foods. If nonone
has, you should conclude that fast food doesn't cause obesity.
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