Correlation of Fast Food Culture and the High Rate of Teenage Obesity Nowadays‚ food is easily accessible in the United States. All we have to do to obtain food is open the refrigerator‚ go to the supermarket‚ or stop at drive- through (Schlosser and Wilson 208)‚ Fast food even became a trend replacing regular food since decades ago. Every time when we stand in front of a fast food shop‚ the typical smiling face of a cartoon like Ronald McDonald always warms our heart. The golden-fried chip‚ big
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Liz Chiocco EDF-255 Final Paper Fast Food in Schools 4/26/12 Buckley‚ Cara. "A Proposal to Separate Fast Food and Schools." New York Times [New York] 20 04 2009‚ n. pag. Web 26 April. 2012. . The author explores research done that suggests that the closer a fast food restaurant is to a school‚ the higher is the obesity rate of the children there. Eric N. Gioia is a city councilman from Queens and he wants to ban any fast food restaurants from opening within a tenth of a mile from any
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World‚" reveals how the fast food industry discovered that Americans are so ashamed of appearing gluttonous that they won’t order two orders of fries. In response‚ the industry created "supersized" portions and along with it‚ a nation of supersized people. http://www.ynhh.org/online/nutrition/advisor/fastfood.html High fat fast food meals take a toll High fat diets‚ typical of fast food meals‚ contribute to a variety of negative and costly health outcomes‚ including obesity‚ high cholesterol‚ heart
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Tobacco Inhales Fast Food Central Methodist University Nancy Bumler April 19‚ 2011 Tobacco Inhales Fast Food People would probably agree that both food and tobacco consumption can be addictive. Overeating‚ or gluttony as it is termed‚ is even referenced in the Holy Bible. Philippians 3:19 reads‚ “Their end is destruction‚ their god is their belly‚ and they glory in their shame‚ with minds set on earthly things” and Proverbs 23:2 says‚ “And put a knife to your throat if you are given to
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English 1A 15 October 2013 Why Fast Food is Unhealthy In today’s age of convenience‚ fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from a two year old to a sixty year old seems to be enjoying it. Why not? It’s delicious‚ it’s filling‚ it’s affordable‚ and available just any time of the day. What more can you ask for when you are living life in the fast lane? Well fast food all good tastes‚ except that it is not nutritionally balanced and‚ therefore‚ unhealthy in the long run if consumed on a regular
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Professor Johnson 03/06/2012 Fast Food Industry in U.S A variety of different regulations have been set for people that are concerned with tobacco either on a personal level or commercially. Tobacco is associated with damages and thus it has been attacked by medical authorities and social observers. The fast food industry is no exception since it has also contributed to different damages to people’s health. Obesity is just one of the many ailments caused by fast food joints. FDA has made sure
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Nicholas Leung May 2012 The Reality of Fast Food Consumption Introduction When was the last time you had fast food just because it was so easy‚ filling‚ convenient and inexpensive? Fast foods restaurants provide foods that are quick‚ cheap‚ and easy alternatives to home cooked meals‚ that do not provide table service‚ and tend to be high in saturated fat‚ salt‚ calories while containing little nutrients (Gaskell). Sometimes we eat food from restaurant chains such as McDonalds‚ Kentucky Fried
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Proposal: Change in the fast food industry (we can take a specific restaurant like McDonald’s) to fight obesity Fast food and obesity The relationship between a nation’s fast food consumption and its rate of obesity has been studied. Schlosser said "it seems wherever America’s fast food chains go‚ waistlines inevitably start expanding." Schlosser argues that the North America has the highest obesity rate of any industrialized nation. More than half of all adults and about one-quarter of all children
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People should know what is in the food they eat today. The package should tell us the things they put in these Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs for short. They should do this because: we do not know what harmful things are in the foods‚ the side effects it has on other foods too‚ and no real testing has been done to prove these foods are even okay for us to eat. These foods should have labels because we do not know what they contain in them. The company that produces GMOs do not put what
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the Freedom of Food Choice. In 2012‚ the United States Department of Agriculture. established new laws to help increase the nutritional value of food in school lunches. Today many students are disagreeing with this new healthy food act because they aren’t receiving the amount of calories needed to go through an entire day. Different school districts are trying to establish new policies in order to give students the amount of energy they need as well as the nutritional values of the food their given
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