>>Description of a situation:
Global media and information
technologies leads to culture of McDonaldization, which is a process of growing
of fast-food restaurants all over the world. Nowadays, many
shopping malls are filled with McDonaldized shops that sell the same
predictable products in all of their stores. No matter how late it is,
if you want to eat the fast food, what you need to do is calling twenty four delivery
hotline and fast food will be delivered to your home within hours. Undeniably, spread of technology and competitiveness in work
change the human behavior. Fast food has become the first option for those
employees who lead a hectic life because it is
efficient, cheap, and fast.
However, fast food is extremely unhealthy as it is high in
fat, sugar, salt and even chemical additives.
>>Identification of a problem
Globalization>>
McDonaldization>> Globesity
Globesity can lead to many chronic ailments
such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease and affect
the healthcare system in the world.
>>Description of a solution
Organize exercise camp for obese
children during vacation (http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/fat-camps-to-slim-obese-chinese-children-41247)
Encourage women in the
labor force to cook for their kids and family>>decrease
consumption of fast food
Improve the quality of fast food (switch
to healthier cooking fats, add healthier menu options etc) For example, of all the fast food chains, KFC was the only one that showed a somewhat
significant improvement in nutritional quality - a nine-point increase. Although
the scores did not improve for fruit or vegetables, they did for meats,
saturated fat and added sugars. (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260259.php)
Individual awareness>> disadvantages of fast
food
>>Evaluation of solution
As fast food culture is spread all over the world,
individual and government have to work together to solve globesity. Health
campaign can be organized by government to increase individual awareness and
solve the hazards of globesity.
>>Thesis
Globalization leads to spread of McDonalized culture
in the world and brings about globesity.
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