How the Fast Food Affects Our Lives
Nhung Mai
Professor Orozco
English 301 B
10 December 2011
How the Fast Food Affects Our Lives Many American children like eating fast food even though it is unhealthy because it is tasty and fast services. They do not have to wait for foods when they are hungry. They can receive foods within 10 or 15 minutes. Fast foods actually are very convenient for everybody when they do not have time to cook and have to have foods for children. However, there are the many serious effects of fast food to children. The children have to face high risks to their health when fast food contributes to children’s obesity. Obesity is a big problem to children’s health because children can develop many serious diseases. There are “more than 30 medical diseases [related to obesity] including heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancers [which] account for almost 60 percent of deaths annually” (Engler 172). Children have to suffer many variety illnesses and die when they are too young. If children do not stop eating fast food, an unhealthy food, they can put themselves in the high risk of illnesses and death. Nevertheless, it is difficult to reduce the amount of American children being overweight when fast food restaurants concentrate to do marketing in order to target on children. Therefore, American children consume too much fast food because of the various parental and marketing factors that make American children consume unhealthy food. Parental factor is a main point to affects the consumption of fast food in children. Nowadays, both parents are working so hard that they can handle the living costs as foods, houses, clothing and many other expenses. They do not have much time to go to the supermarket, buy food and cook healthy meals for their children. Thus, fast food is the best choice to save time and fill their children’s stomach up. Hence, the price of fast food meal is so cheap. For instance, MacDonald's has their $4 value menu, which is a just small portion of
Professor Orozco
English 301 B
10 December 2011
How the Fast Food Affects Our Lives Many American children like eating fast food even though it is unhealthy because it is tasty and fast services. They do not have to wait for foods when they are hungry. They can receive foods within 10 or 15 minutes. Fast foods actually are very convenient for everybody when they do not have time to cook and have to have foods for children. However, there are the many serious effects of fast food to children. The children have to face high risks to their health when fast food contributes to children’s obesity. Obesity is a big problem to children’s health because children can develop many serious diseases. There are “more than 30 medical diseases [related to obesity] including heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancers [which] account for almost 60 percent of deaths annually” (Engler 172). Children have to suffer many variety illnesses and die when they are too young. If children do not stop eating fast food, an unhealthy food, they can put themselves in the high risk of illnesses and death. Nevertheless, it is difficult to reduce the amount of American children being overweight when fast food restaurants concentrate to do marketing in order to target on children. Therefore, American children consume too much fast food because of the various parental and marketing factors that make American children consume unhealthy food. Parental factor is a main point to affects the consumption of fast food in children. Nowadays, both parents are working so hard that they can handle the living costs as foods, houses, clothing and many other expenses. They do not have much time to go to the supermarket, buy food and cook healthy meals for their children. Thus, fast food is the best choice to save time and fill their children’s stomach up. Hence, the price of fast food meal is so cheap. For instance, MacDonald's has their $4 value menu, which is a just small portion of
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