Fast Food Thesis

While everyone generally knows that fast food is not good for their health, however people still eat it for various reasons. Most people that buy fast food have low incomes, are uneducated, and/or are people just trying to save a couple of bucks. Most people trying to save money are buying fast food and it is costing their health in the long run. This will eventually end up costing people even more money.

Fast food is unhealthy because it is high in calories and fat. We can see a lot of fast food restaurants in the country. For example, people usually go to Burger King, McDonald´s, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. All these kind of companies damage the health of people. Usually, the citizens consume more than twiece a week, and these can lead them to some diseases. Also, fast food can affect the digestive system. A poor diet trigger digestive problems. For example, it can provoke acid reflux and irritated stomach. Furthermore, it is food poisoring. Fast food restaurants have some food safety violations. For instance, they have inadequate

Fast food has a harmful effect on society because it can cause obesity. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry believes obesity “Overweight children are much more likely to become overweight adults unless they adopt and maintain healthier patterns of eating and exercise.” (parag. 1).The causing and treating of obesity is complex but it is the most recognizable disease. Consistently eating fast food and a poor can lead to obesity in anyone. The risks of obesity include an increased risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, fast food “Studies have shown that over the past four decades, consumption of food eaten away from home has also risen alarmingly” (parag. 8). This means that fast food is high in fat, sugar, salt, carbs, calories, saturated and trans fats. This type of eating leads to a higher body mass index or gained weight. Children and adolescents are at a

Till this day, people think that getting fast food is a cheap and an effortless way to fill up their craving. They just drive up to the restaurant, order whatever they want, eat it, and not feel any shame. Hours or days later, they get a stomach ache. What caused this? They might think. The minority would be the ones who are most aware and the ones asking the real questions. Was it what I ate at McDonald’s? Was the food defected or not fresh? The majority of the people's mind does not go to fast food because they do not see that that is what is causing issues. Fast foods are foods that are prepared in a swift manner sold in restaurants to be served to people as a quick meal. We like it mainly because of how convenient, fast, and most importantly how appetizing it seems. Although, on an average of 34.3 percent of children and teenagers are getting their daily nutrition from fast food. Eating fast food is unhealthy, and people need to take consideration of what is going on behind the fast food process.

Fast food is exactly how it sounds: food that can be quickly produced for a simple meal. Although they may be satisfactory, they are anything but healthy. Eating fast food is appetizing which is one of the main reasons it is so popular. Not only does it taste good to many, but it is inexpensive, too! America is the number one place for fast food. There are over 160,000 fast food restaurants in the United States and over 50 million Americans are served fast food daily. The frequency of eating fast food is also a problem because according to statisticbrain.com 44 percent of Americans confessed to consuming fast food once per week. What people do not realize is the harm that fast food is doing to their body. Not only is fast food a

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, homemade meals. One does not need to prepare meals when dealing with fast foods; it is just a matter of walking into a fast food restaurant. However, the rampant feeding on fast foods in America has adverse effects that seem to affect even

People that eat fast food daily have been shown to not only gain weight, but the fast food has affected their brain and how they think. Fast food is ruining society because it increases obesity, destroys small family farms, and increases laziness. Fast food is ruining society, and obesity is the best example of this; causing many people to have health problems. Dr. Goldstein explains, “Chemicals aren’t meant to be eaten and can accumulate in the body like toxic waste

Because many children have unhealthy food that rich of fat and sugar; as a result, they develop physical condition problem. Take for example, they do not consume the recommended daily portions of fruits, vegetables, water, lipids, minerals, and whole grains which are very important for protect health; therefore, they lack nutrients, fibres and vitamins. In addition, nowadays society lives a busy lifestyle constraining individuals from planning their meals or home cooking. As an example, the parents consume pre-packaged food and let their children eat it, as it easy to cook or just microwave it; however, these instant foods contain a high level of sodium, trans fat, sugar, and preservatives, which have harmful result on the children’s health and causes of obesity. Furthermore, the convenience of fast food is anther factor leading to poor food. Since more fast food that high in fat, and fast food is cheaper and available 24 hours a day by and large, the parents are consuming and give it to their children more and

In fast food nations we’ve been reading about the fast food industry and how there’s uniformity, conformity, and centralized control and how we, the individual, are involved. When reading this one realizes that they, as an individual, plays a major role when it comes to the business. Not only does this apply to the hard and complex system that is the “fast food nation” but it also applies to outside that. Since “social norms” became a thing, and since people started losing “individualism”, there has been uniformity, conformity, and centralize control as we see not only in the book we’re reading, but in our other given texts, such as in the article “Why we don’t complain”, “OTHER ARTICLE NAME THAT I CAN’T REMEMBER BECAUSE IT’S IN MY BAG”, and “OTHER ARTICLE NAME HERE, I’LL LOOK AT IT IN THE MORNING, I’M SORRY MS.NOWAK, IT’S ALMOST 11 AND I WANT TO SLEEP”

Parental neglect of offering healthy food for their kids led to compound the crisis. Recently, the consumption of fast food has dramatically risen in the U.S. The huge relevance of fast food restaurants, such as McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, Taco Bell and others, could be a contributor in changing the Americans style of food, and increasing their intake of these unhealthy foods. According to a research conducted about fast food consumption in the U SS, 22% of parents said that their kids consume fast food meals at least once a week, which might easily drive to obesity. As known, the main aim of fast food companies is raising their profitability, and therefore, their plan is to sell food as much as they could despite their knowledge that it is unhealthy. So, they focused on attracting kids to buy from them by enticing advertisements. They know how to draw kids’ attention, especially when they describe the taste of their meals and show their toys that come with them. There is no doubt that TV programs and advertisements have a strong impact on children. Many studies have confirmed that watching TV for a long time during a day is able to influence kids in their attitudes and habits. The problem of eating fast food is that it has a lack of fiber and dairy, contains a high density of energy, and has big amounts of protein, fat and sugar, which makes it the unhealthy

Look around and see all the news and articles concerning the health risk of eating fast food in America and even other countries. In fact, the fast food is truly killing us. They leave out important warnings and try to hide important nutritional facts that counteract the ways of trying to eat healthy. The fast food companies should be taking responsibility for what they are doing to their customers. Zinczenko says “If you pour what you 've been served, you 're suddenly up around 1,040

Almost all food served at fast food restaurants has an extremely high fat and calorie content and lacks nutritional value.

Since the early twentieth century, fast food establishments have been making headway in the American culture, so much so that they have taken over our modern lifestyles. Fast food is more accessible than any other food store, is cheaper than healthy or organic food and is advertised tremendously with the use of sexualised ads. There have been countless actions made to reverse the effects of our fast food culture but none have taken root due to unhealthy food becoming a fad that Americans never grew out of. Today’s glorification of the fast food industry has made it hard to enjoy and afford healthier food options in America thus we need to make investing in the health of our youth the highest priority and revert back to the much healthier lifestyle of growing our own food.

The bad food in the last years has an influence in the society, at the point to become predominant in the feeding of the consumers, and for this generation’s health is having a negative impact. In the middle of the twenty-first century people are evading and ignoring their responsibilities, and have no healthy habits nor an active lifestyle. Therefore; the fast food has repercussions on the health. So massive is the impact of this that can provoke obesity related diseases. Accordingly of not having healthy eating habits people can suffer from them. In the decade of the 70’s this was rare and was only provoked by the genetics, something that people as a society need to worry and take action about it. At the present many things have changed and it is noticed with the pass of the years. Food is one of this changes is having a negative impact on the population of the United States to the point of causing diseases at young ages that before was rare to get them and the culprits and the factors that contribute to the development of this problem are the consumers, restaurants, and technology.

Tons of negative health effects come from eating fast food. First, obesity is a huge problem in America. The major cause of obesity comes from eating too much fast food. The obesity rates have skyrocketed over the years. Over seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese. An author elaborated more by expressing their facts and arguing that, “Excess weight in children is a significant global public health issue: 10% of school aged children, and a further 22 million children over 5 years old estimated to be overweight or obese. Child obesity rate levels are rising across the globe”(Kelly 1). The concerns Kelly states specifically supports my point that obesity has gotten out of hand in the U.S. People