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    Cooking dinner is the last thing on your agenda after a long day at work. There are eight fast food restaurants to your left and right‚ you pull in get yourself and the kids food for under five dollars and under five minutes: simply convenient. So many Americans today find themselves driving through a drive through picking up dinner for the family rather than cooking a home cooked meal. The outrageous amount of fast food that people consume in a week is becoming unbelievable. When getting off of a long

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    Nicholas Leung May 2012 The Reality of Fast Food Consumption Introduction When was the last time you had fast food just because it was so easy‚ filling‚ convenient and inexpensive? Fast foods restaurants provide foods that are quick‚ cheap‚ and easy alternatives to home cooked meals‚ that do not provide table service‚ and tend to be high in saturated fat‚ salt‚ calories while containing little nutrients (Gaskell). Sometimes we eat food from restaurant chains such as McDonalds‚ Kentucky Fried

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    Fast Food; the Culprit Not the Cure Food comes in many different forms; frozen foods‚ fresh foods‚ processed foods‚ natural foods‚ healthy foods and unhealthy foods. There comes a time when one has to look at what is being consumed on a regular basis and evaluate the situation on what may be helping in terms of health or slowly killing off the body he or she possess. Individuals eat unhealthy foods every day‚ knowing and not knowing what types of affects these foods are having on their bodies

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    Liz Chiocco EDF-255 Final Paper Fast Food in Schools 4/26/12 Buckley‚ Cara. "A Proposal to Separate Fast Food and Schools." New York Times [New York] 20 04 2009‚ n. pag. Web 26 April. 2012. . The author explores research done that suggests that the closer a fast food restaurant is to a school‚ the higher is the obesity rate of the children there. Eric N. Gioia is a city councilman from Queens and he wants to ban any fast food restaurants from opening within a tenth of a mile from any

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    Healty Food vs Fast Food

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    Healthy food vs. Fast food Many years ago‚ people ate food that do not contains‚ preservatives; moreover‚ people used to spend a lot of time cooking their own food. Therefore those people did not have problems by the food that they ate‚ because all the food that they ate was natural and healthy. However‚ nowadays many people‚ particularly young people prefer to eat fast food such as hamburger‚ pizza or fried chicken. As we can see there are two kind of food: healthy food and fast food. One way to

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    English 120 11-22-09 Globalization of the Fast Food Industry Imagine a world where almost everyone is overweight‚ and cultural and family traditions do not exist. Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal explores the effects of the spread of fast-food companies like McDonald’s to other countries. In his chapter “Global Realization” Eric Schlosser claims that “The global expansion of American fast food is homogenizing cultural identities; like Las Vegas

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    Fast Food In America

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    has been a spike in the numbers of Americans becoming obese and fat along with a rise in the number of sugars in foods. Obesity seems to have become a normal thing in current day America and it must be put to an end for a healthier and improved lifestyle. If a plan isn’t put into effect the problem will only gain more weight and get larger. My proposal is to use fat people’s meat as a food and fuel source. It will help the United States more advanced and make America great again. 38% of adult Americans

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    of the fast food industry Assignment 3 [Type the author name] 6/1/2012 .   Analysis Of The Fast Food Industry In the United States‚ fast food is as much a tradition as is baseball and football. Restaurants like McDonald’s‚ Wendy’s‚ Culvers‚ and Burger King have been feeding hungry Americans for years. With the fast pace of today’s workers‚ people need to be able to grab a quick bite on the go without having to wait too long and

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    Censorship Gone Too Far

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    At what point has censorship gone too far? By simply allowing someone else to get censored‚ you give anyone the power to censor you or something you like. Censorship is the act of blocking “offensive” material. It is wrong due to the fact that it a prevention of creativity‚ unnecessary nuisance‚ and contradiction of rights.. Censorship in music is just not right. It goes against everything in society. Especially the 1st amendment‚ which states “Congress shall make (…) abridging the freedom of speech

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    Proposal: Change in the fast food industry (we can take a specific restaurant like McDonald’s) to fight obesity Fast food and obesity The relationship between a nation’s fast food consumption and its rate of obesity has been studied. Schlosser said "it seems wherever America’s fast food chains go‚ waistlines inevitably start expanding." Schlosser argues that the North America has the highest obesity rate of any industrialized nation. More than half of all adults and about one-quarter of all children

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