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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Running head: THE EFFECTS OF FAST FOOD ON TODAY’S SOCIETIES Chambers D. !1 ! ! ! ! The Effects of Fast Food on Today’s Societies Dustin Chambers Sociology 1010 11/12/2012 P 05 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Running head: THE EFFECTS OF FAST FOOD ON TODAY’S SOCIETIES Chambers D. !2 ! Abstract This paper discusses a few of the negative ways in which fast food harms the world’s societies. The three key topics of which are covered by this paper are the ways societies health
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30 | 24 | Figure 4.2 4.3 Familiarity of various fast food restaurant brands Table 4.3 | | Frequency | Percent | Valid | KFC | 28 | 28.0 | | McDonalds | 23 | 23.0 | | Dominos Pizza | 13 | 13.0 | | Pizza Hut | 17 | 17.0 | | Cafe Coffee Day | 19 | 19.0 | | Total | 100 | 100.0 | Figure 4.3 Interpretation: From the above study on the familiarity of fast food restaurants‚ we can see that KFC has the highest familiarity (28%) and McDonalds
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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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2004). Even more frightening‚ like tobacco companies‚ the junk-food business has a very skillful and strong labor force to promote its products‚ including manipulating ingredients‚ targeting young children and producing misleading advertisements. Due to all these unethical practices‚ the government should regulate the sale‚ advertisement and distribution of junk food in order to protect human health. Bingeing on high-calorie foods can be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine‚ and could cause compulsive
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The Jungle v. Fast Food Nation Brenton Beardsley Illinois Valley Community College In the book‚ The Jungle and Fast Food Nation‚ there was several points that were brought up about the values‚ beliefs‚ political ideas‚ and institution. These topics played an important role in both of the books‚ as many people just like the family in‚ The Jungle‚ face several hardships in our country to this day. During these hard times people find several ways to get to their inner self and overcome these
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Haneef Elfaki English 5-6 Mrs.Martin 2/5/15 The American Life Style and fast food How much fast food do you guess you eat a month? The average American eats about 50lbs worth‚ that’s more than most children in 3rd world countries eat in total in 3 monthsWill you follow everyone else or will you stray from the beaten path‚ and dare to be different? Dare to be your own person? Or will you crumple from the influences and pressures of society? The truth is no matter how much you tell yourself that you
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Fast Food Nation: Chapter Four “Becoming a franchisee is an odd combination of starting your own business and going to work for someone else” (Schlosser 94).In Eric Schlosser’s Non-fiction book‚ Fast Food Nation‚ Schlosser reasons that fast food has widened the gap between the rich and the poor‚ started an obesity epidemic and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. While the idea of a franchiser/ franchisee relationship appears to be nothing but beneficial‚ it has a serious drawback‚
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CHAPTER 1 Problem and It’s Background Customer satisfaction‚ a business term‚ is a measure of how products and services supplied by a company meet or surpass customer expectation. It is seen as a key performance indicator within business and is part of the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorecard. In a competitive market place where businesses compete for customers‚ customer satisfaction is seen as a key differentiator and increasingly has become a key element of business strategy. Customer
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Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between work and employment relations in the fast food industry in Singapore with work and employment relations in the fast food industries in Germany and the United States. How would you explain those similarities and differences between Singapore and the other two countries? Introduction The fast food industry‚ and McDonald’s in particular‚ have come to be regarded as emblematic of a new global culture (Leidner‚ 2002‚ pg 8). McDonald’s operates
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