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    I feel that there should be laws that requires restaurants and fast food places to post nutritional information on their menus. I feel this way because there are to many people in the world today obese. Maybe if there are nutritious facts on the menus about the food people would look at them and choose what is healthiest. The leading cause to obesity in the US is fast food places and restaurants. In fact 33.8 percent of people living in the US are obese. Also 19 percent of children

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    This inquiry was based on the question, “Is fast food the new tobacco?” In this writing, the author is advocating that obesity is starting to become just as much of a problem in society as the consumption of tobacco products. He argues that people are facing an internal crisis every day. That crisis is between the want to eat at fast food restaurants and the want to be in good physical shape. There is an image displayed that shows a McDonald’s billboard stating, “you know you want me” with a perfect

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    Kids love fast food. And the fast-food industry loves kids: it couldn't survive without them. They are, after all, the industry's biggest consumers. In the national bestseller Chew on This, available in paperback April 2007, the award-winning journalists Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson share with young readers the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks behind those sesame seed buns. Addressing the same issues as Schlosser's groundbreaking Fast Food Nation, the authors focus

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    There are various different perspectives on the issue of fast food. Some people believe that this kind of food has a positive role to play in the world because of its convenience and low cost; however, I would argue that it is harmful both to the people who eat it and to society at large. There are two main reasons for this Firstly, it is a well-known fact that eating too much fast food is extremely unhealthy. Foods such as fried chicken, hamburgers and chips contain a great deal of fat and

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    Fast Food Restaurants: Why They are Popular and the effects of their Popularity According to the 2016 article Children and Fast Food,” More than one-third of American children and adolescents ate some form of fast food every day in the mid-2010’s.” That is a high number of children eating fast food daily and it is only becoming higher and higher as time goes on because most people are not willing to change their eating habits. People think since the last five years there has been such a craze for

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    The fast food industry has plagued our nation with its burgers and fries and in return this has made “thirty three percent of the population obese and nineteen percent of the thirty three percent are adolescents”. (http://www.obesityaction.org) This alone is enough to make your jaws drop in fact it doesn't stop there, fast food restaurants keep on building new location so that people may enjoy their food and from there on it is just going to get worse if people do not see what they are eating.

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    you even begin to think of how fast food and grocery stores would be if there were no mandatory monthly inspections or no required food sanitation guidelines? Food plays a huge role in our lives. Food keeps us going through the day. Food to us is like gas to cars. Without gas, the car cannot drive.But is the food we are putting into our systems having a bad impact on our bodies that we can't control? In the early 1900s, the food was incredibly unsanitary. The food was more dangerous than when "The

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    to be over weight. Fast-food consumption has been a major contributor to the debate of the twenty-first century. Chapter thirteen, titled “Is Fast-Food the New Tobacco,” in the They Say I Say book, consists of authors discussing the debate of fast-food’s link to obesity. Authors debate the government’s effects on the fast-food industry, along with whether or not the fast-food industry is to blame for the rise in obesity throughout America. While some people blame the fast food industry for the rise

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    Introduction Ford’s “Speedee Service System” was the driving force behind the fast food concept. In 1948 McDonalds was the first restaurant to implement this system. McDonald’s system included a standardized menu that permitted restaurants to provide consumers’ food fast(Sanna,2006). In 1993 Chipotle opened in Denver, Colorado. Over the last 24 years, Chipotle has grown into a publicly traded corporation that generates $3.2 billion in revenue. Chipotle currently operates in 43 states in the United

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    a “Click to LOOK INSIDE!” button on each book. It is the most important part of a whole book in order to catch potential readers. One would expect that both In-N-Out Burger and Fast Food Nation must have strong hooks at the beginning since they were both New York Times bestsellers. Although they both focus on the fast food industry, there is quite a contrast in the way they are written. In the prologue of In-N-Out Burger, the author Stacy Perman writes not about the hamburgers or the company, but

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