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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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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“Fast Food Nation” We all see the advertising and marketing for the big fast food chains such as‚ McDonald’s‚ Burger King and Wendy’s everywhere we go‚ it is hard to miss. A hefty majority of Americans continue to eat there a few times a week even though it is well-known this poor excuse for food is extremely unhealthy. It is just so convenient‚ they can be found everywhere‚ they have cheap prices‚ and the food tastes so good. It is a common misconception that these places are still acceptable
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Assignment: Info Bank Fast Food: Is it a Smart Choice? 1. Andrews‚ J. (2007) Surprise Ingredients In Fast Food Retrieved September 3‚ 2011‚ from http://www.naturalnews.com/022194_sodium_ingredients_food.html Source : World Wide Web What is it about? The article explains on the disadvantages of fast food. It also talks about all dangerous fast food ingredients which can harm our health. In this article we can found separated fast food restaurants and their “special” recipes (McDonald’s
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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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Fast Food kills “Fifty million people in the U.S. are dependant on fast food (Fast Food Secrets)”. People all over‚ are eating more of it‚ but most of them aren’t fully aware of how bad it actually is. Most fast food places do things that act as a lure for people to buy more food. Such as offering a large portion of food for a small amount of money. This overall consumption of fast food has many consequences. Fast food is bad for you in more ways than one. Not only is it unhealthy‚ but the restaurants
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Impact of Fast Food The Impact of Fast Food Fast food especially McDonalds and KFC from the United States has brought a lot of impacts since the first day it arrived in China. You can notice that many people especially the youth and kids like fast food so of them even declare fast food is more tasteful than Chinese food. So some nutritionists warn that maybe some day fast food will take the place of Chinese food. But I don’t think so. Yes fast food does have some advantages. For example fast food
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CHAPTER 1 The Problem Rationale Food is one of the basic necessities of man in order to stay alive. Whether he likes it or not‚ man needs sufficient amount of food to sustain his being. This need to meet the food intake parallel with the essential meals per day results to the materialization of the food service industry which deals with preparation and sale of food items or products. Therefore‚ the food service industry will always remain in high demand because of its category. This industry
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Fast Food (1) Fast food‚ which is a very common concept in America today‚ has not always been so popular. (2) Because McDonald’s was the first restaurant to equip themselves with an assembly line people think that it was the beginning of fast food‚ but many consider White Castle to be how fast food chains began. (5) When founded in 1921‚ White Castle was an extremely important part of fast-food development. (3) Surprisingly‚ at the time‚ hamburgers were considered revolting. White Castle changed
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For and against essay: FAST FOOD SHOULD BE PROHIBITED Nowadays‚ one of the biggest industries in the whole world today is fast food chains‚ lots of cities around the world are full of fast food restaurants more than ever. Therefore‚ a lot of people eat fast food because it’s cheap‚ especially during this moment of crisis that we’re facing. So‚ would it be productive if such food was banned? There are some advantages and disadvantages about banning fast food restaurants because of various reasons
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