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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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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Chapter 7 1. According to Karl Marx social class depends on a factor of a person’s relationship to the means of production. He distinguished two classes: owner of the means of production (bourgeoisie) and a worker who works on these factories‚ tools and land‚ proletariat. Marx believed that person’s life is shaped only with regard of what he owns and what he works on. Max Weber believed that social class is made up of three elements: property‚ power and prestige. According to Weber‚ property is
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For several years‚ people have attributed rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases of obesity in America. According to the article Fast Food: Is it the Enemy by Registered Dietitian Sarah Muntel (2012)‚ “Since 1970‚ the amount of fast food restaurants in business doubled‚ which equates to about 300‚000 establishments in the United States. Coincidentally‚ 33.8 percent of the U.S. population is affected by obesity and 19 percent of children and adolescents are also affected”
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Fast Foods Food that we eat today has changed more in the past 30 years‚ than in the past 3‚000 years. What is even more astonishing is that these changes have occurred without the public even knowing it or having the chance to debate it. How has this happened? We are now a culture that is very distant from where our food comes from. We are alienated from our food industry. We don’t see how the food is made or what chemicals‚ food coloring or fillers are added to
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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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Fast Food Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about fast food in the United States and its effects. Central Idea: The history of fast food‚ the effects of eating fast food‚ and its effect on the United States. Introduction I. Anywhere you go‚ there is a good chance there will be a fast food restaurant nearby. A. It’s the easy way out of cooking dinner‚ or grabbing something fast because you didn’t have time to make anything. B. Fast food may taste good‚ but have you ever thought
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many reasons that many people love to eat fast food. It is fast and easy to eat food which makes us satisfy. But‚ recently‚ We have heard that fast food is farmful food for human. However‚ recently‚ We hear that fast food is harmful food for human. There are too many researches about disadvantage of fast food. I think that fast food has more hamful properties than benefit ones. There are some reasons why fast food is harmful one. First of all‚ Fast food is fried by oil. For example‚ When it
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always go to fast food restaurants? Which restaurant will you go? Today I am going to persuade you to make healthier choices at fast food restaurants. I always eat fast food outside‚ so I have search the information how to make healthier choices in the fast food restaurants. Today I will tell you the problem‚ cause and solution of fast food in Hong Kong. The problem is fast food make our body unhealthy .This problem cause serious healthy effect. To avoid the negative impact of fast food‚ you should
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Huge Profits and Salaries for the Owners In order to best maximize their profits‚ the big fast food giant ’s created the franchise system. This system allows the companies to maintain overall control of the product‚ and give them a guaranteed rate of return‚ while at the same time allowing local owners to create a low-wage work force best suited to local conditions. For us‚ as workers‚ that means our immediate employers are often small business owners‚ and franchise owners who plead poverty when
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