Since the 20th century fast food has become extremely popular as an alternative to home-cooked meals. Year by year the number of restaurants specializing in fast food has been growing. What are the reasons of this sweeping popularity? What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating this type of food as opposed to normal foods or meals? Pros Firstly‚ fast food saves time allowing people to buy food from almost everywhere without long waiting time. Nowadays many people are in a hurry‚ which usually
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Gustavo Carvalho Professor Dail English 1A 9-5-13 Why People Eat Fast Food Many people in United States eat fast food daily. Is not a mistery that processed food is bad for health‚ but‚ if everyone knows that why is fast food so popular? In the textbook "Fast Food Nation" written by Eric Schlosser he shows that franchising is a good kind of business for the companies‚ they make money only because of their name. The fast food market is growing in United Staes year by year‚ and people do not
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THE IMAPACT OF FAST FOOD CONSUMPTION ON THE HEALTH PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE IN KARACHI Muhammad Asif Dr. Muhammad Ayub Mehar Khan July‚ 2012 Iqra University Main Campus Karachi. ABSTRACT Nowadays Fast food industry are becoming strong industry of a Karachi‚ the number of people due to short of time couldn’t able to make traditional home food instead they order fast food (Burger‚ Pizza) for their diet‚ which caused many health problems (Gastric‚ Ulcer‚ Food Poisoning) and there are also some people
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English 1A 15 October 2013 Why Fast Food is Unhealthy In today’s age of convenience‚ fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from a two year old to a sixty year old seems to be enjoying it. Why not? It’s delicious‚ it’s filling‚ it’s affordable‚ and available just any time of the day. What more can you ask for when you are living life in the fast lane? Well fast food all good tastes‚ except that it is not nutritionally balanced and‚ therefore‚ unhealthy in the long run if consumed on a regular
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Fast Food Market economic trends Fast food is now served at restaurants and drive-throughs‚ at stadiums‚ airports‚ zoos‚ high schools‚ elementary schools‚ and universities‚ on cruise ships‚ trains‚ and airplanes‚ at K-Marts‚ Wal-Marts‚ gas stations‚ and even at hospital cafeterias. In 1968‚ McDonald’s operated about one thousand restaurants. Today it has about twenty-eight thousand restaurants worldwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. McDonald’s is the nation’s largest
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The media has found a new object to criticize‚ and this time it is fast food. All anyone ever hears these days is eat healthy‚ it will help you live a longer and more enjoyable life. Well it’s time to set the story straight about the greatness of fast food. Not only is it ten times better for you than these new "healthy foods" but its unique healing and educational powers can lead you to live longer and be smarter than ever. First of all‚ "healthy food" is not as healthy as its name makes it appear
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According to the Super-Size Me film‚ in the America‚ one in four Americans visits a fast-food restaurant which makes McDonald’s serves 46 million foods everyday‚ and a person could easily find fast food restaurants within a mile. They found McDonald’s even at the hospital. In the film‚ ‘Super-Size Me’‚ the America is now become fattest country in the world‚ and the medical costs have doubled in the past five years. Also‚ in the another film‚ ‘Reaction of the film Food‚ Inc’‚ people are forcing to
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08 May 2012 “Fast Food Nation”: A Critique The essay‚ “Fast Food Nation‚” is effective in persuading audiences to think before you eat. Eric Schlosser‚ a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly‚ clearly has a point he wants to get across‚ but allows readers to make up their own minds. He provides many facts to back his point and has a willingness to present both sides of the issues. Schlosser is straightforward and clear in his writing. He also tries at times to make facts
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Correlation of Fast Food Culture and the High Rate of Teenage Obesity Nowadays‚ food is easily accessible in the United States. All we have to do to obtain food is open the refrigerator‚ go to the supermarket‚ or stop at drive- through (Schlosser and Wilson 208)‚ Fast food even became a trend replacing regular food since decades ago. Every time when we stand in front of a fast food shop‚ the typical smiling face of a cartoon like Ronald McDonald always warms our heart. The golden-fried chip‚ big
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Local Vs. Fast Food Austen Thum 1/10/14 CACCAH Fast Food Nation and Food Inc. were works that truly reveled something that I was completely blind to. I had always known that McDonalds and other fast food chains were of course unhealthy‚ but was unaware of the things that that these big corporations were hiding from the consumers. This information I acquired about how fast food chains really worked completely changed my mind set and was an enormous eye opener. After learning about this I started
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