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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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    Fast Food Nation Obesity has grown into a rampant issue all over the United States‚ over the past few decades. Fast foods also have increased their outlets in the nation‚ in turn‚ depicting a success in the business venture. It is clear that fast foods have become quite cheap in comparison to healthy‚ homemade meals. Subsequently‚ people have turned to eat fast foods for economic reasons. Convenience is yet another reason behind people’s high indulgence in eating fast foods other than healthy‚

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    Fast Food and Obesity in Adults In Aprils addition of Men’s Health magazine there is a picture of salted golden French fries inside a white cup. This advertisement invokes hunger for unhealthy and cheap fast food to consumers. The fast food industries false advertisements‚ unhealthy food‚ and long term effects of consuming fast food all lead to the causes and effects of adulthood obesity in the lives of thousands of Americans today. McDonalds‚ Burger King‚ Wendy’s‚ and other fast food industries

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    Don ’t forget to look for the editorial!!!! Or else the paper is meaningless... Junk Food X Obesity in Children There is an alarming rise in childhood obesity throughout the United States‚ making it an epidemic in this country. Over the past thirty years obesity has continued to increase and become a threat to the health of many children. Since the 1970s’ obesity has doubled in children from ages of 2-5‚ and young adults between the ages of 12 and 19. The most significant increase is seen between

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    Government Control Fast food. You see it on every corner and every street. But‚ the government wants it to stop. They want to make it so that they control what fast food is and how it should work. I believe that the government should have no control over our diets and that we should make our own decisions because every time the government tries to tell people something you only have control for some time before they stop listening to you. Ever since the Healthy Hunger Free act came into play

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    Government Control to Lower Obesity Should the government support and challenge people to watch their diet? It would be a good idea for the government to put rules on food because it would let people know what they are eating‚ it would decrease the percentage of obesity‚ and it would decrease health risks. This would show that the government cares about the health we can have. Plus give people more knowledge of what we don’t know about foods. To begin‚ restaurants don’t let people know what

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    For this essay‚ I will be discussing the usage of legal drugs to control one’s body’s weight. Obesity is a reoccurring problem within today’s society. Due to the ever expandatation of the fast food chain enterprise it has become very noticeable of the problem and consequences of obesity is becoming more significant in our daily life. By looking at the statistics it shows that within the United States of America alone one in every three Americans are considered obese and also that for indolence’s

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    Fast Food: Is it Really The One to Blame For Obesity? Obesity in children goes up in huge numbers every year‚ and in just 2002‚ twenty six percent of schoolchildren were said to be overweight. Fast food restaurants‚ such as McDonald’s‚ were being blamed and sued by parents for the epidemic of obesity. Parents make the claim that fast food is the reason their children are overweight‚ but is fast food really the reason for the increase in the quantity of obese children? Fast food eateries are not

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    Homework Complete Activity #1‚ located on page 257 in our eBook or page 256 in our printed textbook. For this activity‚ please construct a series of questions that you would ask in the opening portion of the following types of interviews: 1. To obtain information from a county official about building permits for a report you have been assigned to deliver to senior management 2. To write a biography of a long-time employee for a special presentation at her retirement party 3. To counsel a subordinate

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    themselves. Fast food restaurants are expanding throughout America very rapidly and that is not a good sign due to all the overweight and obese individuals.

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