Why People Eat Fast Food Essay

In this book the author describes some of the reasons people eat fast food. As she states, many people relay on fast food due to how convenient and easy it is to get it. Fast food has spread all over the US in 1940s and today it has also spread across the global, creating and responding to the demand for American food that is low cost and taste at the same time. Even though some Americans have low-income they still spend more money in unhealthy food than fresh food. Americans tend to spend more money in fast food than in movie, magazine, books, and newspaper. Since many Americans have include fast food into their life, many fast food restaurants have opened causing a dramatically alteration of the appearance of American highways, city streets and suburbs. According to her African Americans and Latinos spend more money on fast food than White Americans due to their conditions. Many people in the suburbs do not have car access to stop at the supermarket instead they can take a walk to the nearest fast food restaurant and get a meal for less than five dollars. This book in particular will help me understand how people make decision regarding about their
They started by stating that the percent of overweight and obesity people has significantly increased since fast food restaurants have spread all over the world. The possible explanation is that processed foods with high concentration of sugar or other refined sweetener and other carbohydrates such as salt, fat and addictive substance causing people lose control over the ability to regulate their alimentation. A comparison between refined and unrefined food was made. The author wanted to see how both of them reacts on the human body. They came with the conclusion that refined food are more harmful to the body and more addictive due to the chemical products that is has while unrefined food are more healthy because they are mechanical