Debate: Fast food is responsible for teenage obesity. Do you agree?
Side: No, it is not responsible.

To a great extent,fast food isn't responsible for teenage obesity.To simply put it, teenage obesity refers to the medical the condition of being very fat or overweight that occurs in people aged 13-19 while fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly, normally given to food that is prepared below their preparation time.Since the introduction of fast food, they have given great convenience to us like filling our tummies while we take a leisure stroll don the beach with our love ones.Also, they are a great source of meals to turn to when we need to rush to another place without any time to eat on the spot. However, as the availability of the fast food industries outlets becomes common, the teenage obesity rates increased as well.Well, I'm here to prove that the increase in teenage obesity isn't linked to that of availability of fast food industries outlets.In my opinion, the main cause for teenage obesity is insomnia or lack of sleep. Most of the teenagers at our age are sleeping very late at night due piles of assignments from school, being engrossed to computer games, social networking or insomnia caused by stress.(Some of my classmates have white hair...)A study done by Harvard that links abnormal sleep pattern to diseases have proved that getting lesser sleep is main cause of teenage obesity.They set up a trial which 21 men and women will be observe in a sleep laboratory. In the end, those allowed only 5.6 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period over three weeks had a slowdown in their metabolism and a reduction in insulin production. This is because chronic sleep restriction and disruption to the body’s internal clock caused about a one-third decrease in insulin secretion after a standard meal, the researchers found. Too little insulin raises glucose levels in the body for longer periods of time, and may increase the risk of diabetes, Orfeu Buxton said.Those changes can lead to weight gain and increased blood sugar,which can lead to obesity as the body cannot burn out the excessive glucose & fats efficiently due to something called circadian disruption. This may in turn raise the risk of diabetes and obesity as metabolic changes occur, said Buxton, the lead study author. He also says during an April 9 telephone interview that we had disrupted not just the timing of sleep but the timing of meals, so it seemed that eating meals at an unusual time may also play a role in getting obesity.He also speculated that the clock in the pancreas, which regulates insulin, similar to the circadian clock in the brain, might also be disrupted making it not ready to secrete enough insulin to the body at the new time, hence breaking down fats inefficiently.However, many agree that fast food is responsible for teenage obesity.Even so, we can still burn those calories & cholesterol just by eating at the correct timing & exercising regularly instead of of being a couch potato. Hence, I strongly believe that teenage obesity is caused by insomnia or  the lack of sleep and that there is no relationship between the increase in teenage obesity rates & that of the availability of fast food industries outlets!*Circadian disruption refers to sleeping, eating and being active at times that are at odds with the body’s internal clock, thus messing up the body's biological clock.References:http://www.google.comhttp://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-11/lack-of-sleep-may-lead-to-obesity-harvard-study-suggests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_foodhttp://dictionary.reference.com