Fast Food Restaurants in America are Contributing to Obesity Fast Food Restaurants in America are contributing to Obesity In 2009‚ 34% of Americans are overweight or obese; at this rate‚ 43% of Americans will be considered overweight or obese by the year 2018. (Hellmich‚ 2009) By definition‚ a person is considered to be overweight if they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) in excess of 25 or more‚ while a person is considered to be obese if their BMI is over 30. What is contributing to this epidemic
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EATING AT FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS Life is moving at a very fast pace in today’s world. Everyone is striving hard to compete with others and get to the top because of which a rat-race is going on all the time. Adults are busy with their careers and children with their academics because of which people rarely have time for one’s self let alone others. In spite of all this busy schedule‚ everyone still need to consume food in order to survive and since people don’t have
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Restaurant in China Audience: people who are interested in eating but fail to distinguish different kinds of restaurants Purpose: To inform—the classification of restaurant Thesis: Chinese people classify restaurants into fast food restaurants‚ Chinese food restaurants‚ and restaurants with other countries’ styles‚ due to the tastes of foods‚ the function of restaurants and the cooking methods of foods. I. Introduction A. Get attention: In current society‚ diets have become increasingly important
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provided reference‚ the fast food industry is spending more money than ever on marketing campaigns and making larger portions than ever before. It has been proven by nutritionists and doctors that eating too much is not healthy for the body. This is the very first ethical concern with the fast food industry. These companies are trying to profit off doing harm to individual bodies. The fact of the matter is that if the excess calories that are used in the production of fast foods continue‚ along with
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We the people should think about using labels on restaurant and fast food menus. I think we should use them because it will really improve our health issues. The labels will show people how many calories they are getting or need. There are three reasons why I think we need labels on food menus. They are people consume 18% of their calories at home. The other one is 30 years later‚ which is these present days they have risen to 33% of calories received away from home. The last reason is some coffee
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Running Head: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESSES 1 Social Responsibility and Businesses Ethical Situations in Business – EST1 Teassa Eubanks April 30‚ 2013 Running Head: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESSES 2 Society has a perception that businesses have an ethical duty to be socially responsible‚ increasing moral effects on society while decreasing the less than moral effects. Many entities look for ways to be socially responsible while they are making
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Business Research Report Corporate Ethical and Social responsibility Presented to: Western Governors University Assessment Code: RWT1 – Competency 318.2.2 Student Name: Richard P. Shields Student ID: 92502 Date: August 7‚ 2009 Mentor Name: Rungrudee Suetorsak‚ Ph.D. Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 5 1. Organization Environmental responsibilities: 5 2. Organizational image: 5 3. Organization Increase profits: 6 Recommendations 7 Conclusion
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the past people in Egypt used to eat healthy‚ freshly prepared food with their families in the home. Today however‚ many people‚ particularly young people‚ prefer to eat fast food such as hamburgers‚ fried chicken‚ or pizza. There are many problem when people used to eat fast food in present. It is dangers for health and body. There are many reasons why people used to eat fast food. There are many reasons for the popularity of fast food. One of the main Cause is the change in lifestyle. Many people
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PEDIATRIC ORIGINAL ARTICLE Fast food‚ other food choices and body mass index in teenagers in the United Kingdom (ALSPAC): a structural equation modelling approach LK Fraser1‚ KL Edwards2‚ JE Cade3 and GP Clarke1 1 School of Geography‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK; 2Division of Biostatistics‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK and 3Nutritional Epidemiology Group‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK Objective: To assess the association between the consumption of fast food (FF) and body mass index (BMI)
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Ethical Issues and Social Responsibility Case Analysis: BP (Beyond Petroleum) Beyond Petroleum (BP)‚ one of the world’s largest energy companies has seen many highs and lows over its 100 history. Throughout BP’s 100 year history there have been numerous questions about the company’s ethical conduct. These ethical misconducts include fraud‚ environmental crimes‚ regulatory negligence‚ and the endangering of habitats (Thorne‚ D.M.‚ Ferrell‚ O.C.‚ & Ferrell‚ L.‚ 2011). With the multiple
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