America’s Fast Food Epidemic This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food alone. Fast food is most definitely not good for you. Fast food is usually high in fat‚ calories‚ cholesterol and sodium. Fast food restaurants add lots of salt and other additives to make their food taste good. Eating fast food for long periods of time can cause high blood pressure‚ heart disease and obesity. Fast food is not good for you because it is highly addictive‚ it costs too much and it is very
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Fast Food and Obesity In today’s society‚ fast food has become a large part of many American’s lives. With the rising numbers of obese people‚ it is hard not to draw a correlation between the increase in fast food and obesity. Most obese people don’t want to be obese and wish they could lose weight‚ yet they continue to struggle with their fast food intake and obesity. This is due to the advertising done on the consumers‚ the highly addictive food itself‚ and most importantly‚ how advertising
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It’s not something many think about when out eating out‚ or preparing there own food at home. The remainder of this essay will include what is cross contamination and its symptoms‚ what prevention methods should be taken along with examples of food being contaminated. When an individual decides to eat out or eat at fast food restaurant’s they do not think of the harmful effects that could occur when an individual’s food is being handled by one another. Cross-Contamination is the process by which bacteria
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Honors August 9‚ 2012 The main characters in the novel Fast Food Nation are Richard and Maurice “Mac” McDonald‚ Ray Kroc‚ Walt Disney‚ Carl N. Karcher‚ and Dave Thomas. The McDonald’s brothers are from New Hampshire. They opened up the first McDonald’s restaurant in 1937 in southern California. They revolutionized the fast food industry in 1948 by ridding their business of carhops‚ and using disposable plates and cups to serve finger food. Ray Kroc was a high school drop-out from Illinois. He sold
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Should We Eat Meat? In the article “Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian‚” Laura Fraser discusses the reasons why she became a vegetarian and why she chooses not to follow the same lifestyle after fifteen years. Fraser examines that during the time she was a vegetarian‚ she was missing the one protein she wanted the most‚ which was meat. Fraser wasn’t strict when it came to her being a vegetarian. She considered herself as a pesco-ovo-lacto-vegetarian because she ate diary product and eggs‚ as well
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FAST FOOD NATION Section I - The American Way Introduction and Chapter 1 - The Founding Fathers Life in the 1950’s was unlike any previous decade. It was the culmination of the previous 50 years of expansion‚ industrialization‚ depression and two world wars. The baby boom began. Families were moving to the suburbs. The accessibility of the automobile and the integrated open highway gave the average citizen a freedom and mobility never seen before. As a result‚ industries and businesses sprang
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Argumentative Essay Fattening Fast Foods What makes a person become fat and overweight? Is it really because of fast food restaurant patronage? A fast food restaurant is an eating place that prepares food quickly and offers minimal service to customers. “Every day‚ nearly one-third of U.S. children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food‚ which likely packs on about six extra pounds per child per year and increases the risk of obesity‚ a study of 6‚212 youngsters found” (“Fast Food Linked to Child Obesity”‚ 2003
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The popularity of fast food restaurants is growing every day. The popularity of fast food restaurants is growing because of three main causes: the low cost‚ the fast service‚ and how fast food restaurants are available anywhere. The most evident advantage of fast food is than it saves time. In today’s fast-paced life‚ there is nothing better than getting a ready meal. No matter how much the chefs praise the benefits of fresh food‚ at the end of a hard-working day‚ when one returns home all tiered
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the fast food movement on the slow food movement Everything today is fast. People think fast‚ speak fast‚ walk fast‚ write fast and eat fast. "Fast food has become such an integral part of the busy American lifestyle that there are more than 300‚000 restaurants offering it throughout the United States today" (Dorfman‚ 2001). Since everything is becoming "fast" in the world‚ the slow food movement if gradually being taken over by the fast food movement and significant factors of the slow food movement
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global concern and individuals rightly pay attention to what they eat. Therefore‚ the question of whether it is now easier to make healthy food choices is an important one. Firstly‚ as the world nowadays become more developed‚ there are more choices in food to eat‚ globalisation and the opening of international trading has bring the choices of food from locally in the past‚ into globally in the future as now individuals can eat and chooses food from around the world. Moreover‚ with more jobs opportunities
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