Obesity is prevalent in our current generation especially among women due to a variety of factors. Ironically, the price of eating out is cheaper than cooking food in your own kitchen. For example, the price of a cheeseburger is cheaper than a salad. Trying to buy organic food which is considered more healthy for our bodies is more expensive than fast food that is easily accessible. If we go to McDonald’s we can get a cheeseburger from the dollar menu but if we walk into Whole Foods market, a salad can range from $5 to $10. Ironically, employees at Whole Foods who weigh less are given a greater discount than their fellow employees whose BMI are above a certain range. Although this is supposed to be seen as motivation and an incentive for their workers to become more “healthy” it seems discriminatory. Their thinner workers receive an additional 10% off their discount for having a lower body mass. Therefore, if your BMI is above 30, you get to keep your original 20% employee discount, but “thinner” co-workers get as much as a 30% discount.
For some people it is harder to lose weight due to restrictions from their body or even genetic disorders. Also, looking at our society in the United States our portions for food are larger than countries everywhere else. Everyone’s lifestyles are different and so the convenience of getting cheaper and fast food is easier than attempting to cook a healthier meal that is more costly. When I went to Korea, their McDonald’s big mac was half the size of our big mac in the states and they didn’t even have the option to get larger sized fries. Only in the United States do we have the option to “super size” and it seems that our lifestyles provoke this problem of obesity.
Unruly Bodies 
I completely agree. I blame it on our society having so much access to fast foods. As I drive down the street from where I live in Baltimore I lose count of all the McDonalds that I pass. And that is just ONE unhealthy fast food restaurant. I haven’t even begun to count the others that exist. They’re everywhere. Similar to liquor stores, they are available almost everywhere. Unfortunately being healthy, or at least eating heathly to start with, is extremely expensive. As I said earlier, I blame it on our society and our culture. We are living in a time where everything is wanted quickly. We want our technology to be the latest and greatest, which translates to the fastest. I believe the notable quote here would be “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” We need to slow the pace of of lives and take the time to seek out more healthy alternatives. Even if one claims that a basic fitness regimen does not fit into their lifestyle, I’m sure that just eating more healthy would contribute to better health in the long run than continuously eating all the garbage from fast food restaurants simply because it’s quick and available.