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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Fast Food Advertising And Childhood Obesity A rise in obesity has been observed in the United States in the last two decades. Obesity is one problem that gives birth to numerous fatal diseases‚ including but not limited to cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ and depression. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a survey and found that‚ “More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are obese”
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Chris Wagner English 5th Mrs. Leonard 1.29.13 Theories of how Edgar Allan Poe died. 1. Alcoholism There has been much discussion on the topic of Poe being an alcoholic. Some have stated that he drank only on rare occasions‚ and kept admirable control of himself. Others have gone as far as to brand him a raging alcoholic and opium addict. Still others claim that he when had bouts of depression and overindulged at these times. Poe himself once said‚ "I have absolutely no pleasure in the
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In "The Big Fat Case Against Big Macs‚" published in The Washington Post on December of 2002‚ Ellen Goodman argues that the best lawyers cannot prove that the fast food industry caused the obesity epidemic in its customers‚ but they may prove that they fooled its customers‚ especially the young customers. Goodman argues that corporations like McDonalds target young kids by putting toys with their meals to attract them. She also states that they put slogans to make kids think that eating their "Big
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Government‚ Fast Food and American Obesity Should the government get involved in controlling what food options are available to American consumers in an effort to fight the war on obesity? The obesity rate for Americans today has almost doubled compared to the rate in 1997 (CDC‚ 2012). Some believe this increase‚ especially in children‚ has to do with the increase in so many unhealthy fast food restaurants (Chou et al‚ 2010). However‚ does the government have the right to tell fast food restaurants
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Vilsacks stated‚ “The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk” (2011). Research conducted has shown fast food to be a leading contributor to childhood obesity with close to one third of children consuming and demonstrating weight gain and risk of obesity (Holguin‚ 2004). The fast food industry stands accused of attempting to addict people‚ at an early age‚ to their food with a direct result of increased incidences of obesity. Much like the tobacco industry and
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Fast Food Industry Not to Blame for Obesity Shoving bad food into your mouth at a fast food restaurant isn’t your fault‚ it’s the industry that is to blame. Now that doesn’t sound right‚ does it? In today’s society‚ Americans tend to think that something isn’t our fault‚ that someone else is to blame‚ this is called the blame game. Carl Pickhardt claims‚ “Blame never resolves conflict; it only protracts conflict by inflaming whatever grievance is involved.” Prolonging the confilct by blaming
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Fast Food: Is it Really The One to Blame For Obesity? Obesity in children goes up in huge numbers every year‚ and in just 2002‚ twenty six percent of schoolchildren were said to be overweight. Fast food restaurants‚ such as McDonald’s‚ were being blamed and sued by parents for the epidemic of obesity. Parents make the claim that fast food is the reason their children are overweight‚ but is fast food really the reason for the increase in the quantity of obese children? Fast food eateries are not
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Cause and Effect: Fast Food This is a cause-and-effect essay about fast food – how it become so popular and what its effects have been. It uses 4 paragraphs and a 3-7-7-3 layout (three sentences in the introduction‚ seven in the causes paragraph‚ seven in the effects paragraph‚ and three in the conclusion). Show or Hide Explanations In the past people in the United Arab Emirates used to eat healthy‚ freshly prepared food with their families in the home.Today however‚ many people‚ particularly
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Childhood Obesity: Who is really responsible? Homer G. Brown‚ Jr. English 112 Professor Currie August 12‚ 2012 Outline I. Introduction A. This argument defends the parents‚ reduces the thought of all of the responsibility belonging to the parents‚ and highlights other responsible parties‚ namely the responsibility of the school system and their implementation of school lunch programs and vending machines. II. While parental control is needed in aiding in the childhood obesity problem
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