and Composition 2 March 2012 Can Fast Food be Healthy? Fast food has become a huge part of American culture and can affect us in our daily lives. Fast food is consumed by millions of American each and every day‚ which makes it important to determine whether the food is actually healthy. Almost everyone in America has had fast food at one point in their life making the knowledge of whether fast food is healthy or not relevant to everyone. While fast food has been prevalent in America for quite
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Essay Fast Food Popularity in China Student’s Name: ******* Student ID #: ********* Teacher: ********* Due Date: 23 May 2013 Word count: 615 Question: Examine the reasons for the popularity of fast food restaurants in your country. When‚ why‚ and how have these restaurants become so popular? (Cause) Demonstrate the impact of this popularity on your country’s culture‚ i.e.‚ food‚ health‚ economy‚ lifestyle. (Effect) You will need to do some research on the fast food chains
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Everyday around the world people in different cultures eat different foods‚ but what makes people able to taste all these different flavors‚ and why does the perception of what “tastes good” change based on where people live? The human tongue can only actually taste four different tastes‚ salty‚ sweet‚ bitter and sour. The combination and the intensity of these four separate tastes is what gives food the flavor that we know. Then when you add temperature‚ texture‚ and smell you can get an almost
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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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Professor Ping-Hui Liao 26 April 2013 Commentary #2 Anne Allison points out an interesting point about the relationship between food and Japanese women in her article “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus”. She has insightful and different point of view of obento‚ a japanese lunch box which are highly crafted elaborations of food‚ that it is endowed with “ideological and gendered meanings” under state ideology (155). That is‚ both mother and child are being
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In Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser is attempting to revolutionize how Americans eat by exposing the flaws of the fast food industry. He writes about how the commercialized industry of fast food has changed how Americans live. Throughout the novel Schlosser emphasizes the point that the fast food industry is a corrupting force that impacts nearly every aspect in America such as people’s health‚ the economy and society. The novel starts off by giving background on the history of fast food chains and
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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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Jessica Brandon Fast Food Driven Society In a recent documentary film I’ve seen called‚ “Super-Size Me‚” it was stated that in the past 20-25 years‚ obesity levels in America have doubled. Why you may wonder? Many factors contribute to the way we live in our society today‚ but the main reason for obesity levels being so high is the fast food industry and its effects on everyone it comes in contact with. Anyone who has ever had junk food in their life know its addicting features. Seeing it everywhere
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ketchup sitting on the table beside me. There are vibrant colors on the play land thing with kids running around. I see parents sitting at the tables keeping an eye on them. The tables have chairs connected on one side and loose on the other. I see fried food and mayo‚ ketchup‚ wrappers‚ keys‚ phone‚ a dollar and change. The employees are working hard in their black uniforms. There are illuminated menus with bolded white lettering‚ the numbers are red and there’s a picture for almost every meal. There are
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Spring 2014 Paper Project -- Food‚ Culture and Kin/Social Organization Food is both biologically important and culturally important. In all societies‚ in many different ways‚ food and eating relate to each other. Studying foodways – what people eat‚ how they prepare food‚ where and how they eat meals‚ how foods are used in rituals‚ and how people think about their food practices – can help us understand a great deal about the economy‚ social life
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