Do you think our country would be healthier if we could spend less money on good foods and more money on junk food? Would our citizens be less likely to become obese if we walked past fruit stands serving salads on the dollar menu instead of burgers and fries? In the last hundred years alone, our world has invested more money in greasy fast foods than in healthy, organic agricultural foods. Not only has it increased the chance of becoming obese, but unhealthy diets have increased illnesses and deaths due to being overweight. If our country took the time to reduce the costs of healthy food and made it easier to access or purchase, people would start making healthier food choices for themselves and their families, and therefore save money. Believing of this food is the main reason why people start to overeat, gain a lot of weight and engage in a bad and unhealthy diet. You rarely see a fruit salad on a fast food menu, and if there are regular salads, they most likely come with fatty dressings and add-ins that turn a green salad into yet another unhealthy meal. Fast food restaurants have skyrocketed in the United States over the last 20 to 50 years. They are in almost every city, on practically every block, and depending on the size of the city, there can be two to three of them in that area alone! Convenient? Obviously. Good for our citizens and their children? Obviously not. But many Americans don't care. It's cheap, tastes good and is only a block away. Compared to your local grocery store, I would say there are probably five or six fast food restaurants per store. That means five times more people would rather stay in their car and get their food through a window than walk into the produce area of ​​a store to find a bag of apples or