PEDIATRIC ORIGINAL ARTICLE Fast food‚ other food choices and body mass index in teenagers in the United Kingdom (ALSPAC): a structural equation modelling approach LK Fraser1‚ KL Edwards2‚ JE Cade3 and GP Clarke1 1 School of Geography‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK; 2Division of Biostatistics‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK and 3Nutritional Epidemiology Group‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK Objective: To assess the association between the consumption of fast food (FF) and body mass index (BMI)
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blaming the fast food industry. Teenagers have filed lawsuits blaming McDonald’s for their health problems‚ and a public health group in California has asked the governor to declare childhood obesity a state of emergency. But parents—not the fast food companies‚ not the government--are in the best position to fight the epidemic of overweight children. Parents are responsible for teaching kids healthy eating and exercise habits. Parents are to blame if they let kids eat unhealthy foods and sit in
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Introduction: Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food‚ typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with low quality preparation and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. History: The concept of ready-cooked food for sale is closely connected with urban development. In ancient Rome cities had street
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Elisha Ruth Ramos Cragin Day College Writing I 16 October 2012 You Vs. Fast Food Remember how simple it was to pull up to the drive through and tell the little speaker box what combo you wanted? You weren’t ashamed of asking for large fries and a chocolate milkshake because your stomach can handle anything you decide to digest. The salty golden arches crunched as you took a bite‚ the juicy double cheeseburger melted in your mouth or the sweet tea quenched your thirst and the hot fudge sundae
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Derek Tyler Hannah Fast Food and the Effect it has On Our Health The fast food industry has severely changed over the years‚ how these restaurants started‚ what are the health factors‚ and what has caused them to have such great success I. Fast food is introduced A. What brought about the idea of a fast food restaurant B. How quickly they flourished C. Advertising Methods II. Health factors A. Disadvantages B. Advantages III. Major chains A. How they began B. What makes them so successful
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Easily prepared and fast served food is called Fast Food. The concept has grown worldwide with many restaurants coming up day in day out. One of the reasons for this type of restaurants becoming most sought after is low investment requirement for the entrepreneurs and varieties of foods served in a short period of time for the consumers. In most of cases of fast food preparations‚ food is made ready made and is served repeatedly heating it. Fast food facts The fast food facts are un-digestible
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Brand-New Fast Food Trend Introduction Fast food is very common in Hong Kong. We can find at least one fast-food restaurant nearby. McDonald‚ KFC‚ Burger King‚ Triple O’s‚ Café de Carol can be found everywhere in Hong Kong. Fast food means that the food can be prepared and served very quickly. It can save us time and is convenient. [pic][pic][pic] The aim of this report is to investigate fast food culture in Hong Kong nowadays. Firstly‚ trend of fast food culture
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AMERICAN FAST FOOD IN KOREA 1. Compared to other East Asian countries‚ is Korea an ideal market? Korea is the only country in Asia where capital expenditure has revived in 2002. In the whole Asia fast-food chains were not hurt by the Asian economic crisis at the end of the 90’s. However in Korea‚ revenues of fast-food franchises fell by 25 per cent during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and while the economy was under the influence of the shock. After some structural reforms in
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the country has favorable demand environment for the fast food industry in Asia. Although China and Singapore’s economies grew at seven and ten percent‚ respectively‚ within the last year‚ the former is too undeveloped for a company with no operations in Asia and the latter represents a market that has been saturated. Ranking fifth on GNI per capita is a double-edged sword. On the one hand‚ Korea only ranks behind the countries whose fast food industries have already matured and thus showing that
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Food Science and Quality Management ISSN 2224-6088 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0557 (Online) Vol .11‚ 2013 www.iiste.org Trend of Fast Food Consumption and its Effect on Pakistani Society Farzan Yahya1* Rabbia Zafar2 Soam Shafiq2 1. 2. Department of Finance‚ Lahore Business School‚ The University of Lahore Department of Marketing‚ Lahore Business School‚ The University of Lahore * E-mail of the corresponding author: farzan.yahya@yahoo.com Abstract Fast food is convenient and tasty though
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