...Fast Food Cause Obesity There has been a rise in obesity in this country for the last forty years. Many scientists and doctors have begun to question whether there is any relationship between fast food and obesity. According to the available information the number of fast food restaurants has doubled since 1970s. (Currie, J et al 2009).Currie J et al (2009) observe that the rise in the obesity cases in the last one decade has been directly related to the rise in the number of people choosing fast food as their main menu. Fast food has been described as food which is prepared in hurry for people who have little time during meal times. These foods are very popular with the students and working people since they do not have enough time to sit and enjoy a full meal course. Fast food include the fries and burgers .These types of foods are usually prepared in hurry to meat the rising demand especially during the peak hours. The popularity of this type of food is pegged on the fact that they are always ready and can be taken within a short notice as opposed to the full meal course where one has to place an order in advance. Most of our cities and towns have fast food chains located on every corner and at the same time our television, newpapers and radio stations are filled with advertisements enticing us to sample the different products in offer in these joints. It is worth noting that most of these commercials are usually directed towards children and youth justifying the reason why...
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...Fast Food Advertising And Childhood Obesity A rise in obesity has been observed in the United States in the last two decades. Obesity is one problem that gives birth to numerous fatal diseases, including but not limited to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and depression. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a survey and found that, “More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are obese” (Ogden, Carroll). One of the main reasons behind obesity is the American’s love for fast food. Fast food contains only a small proportion of essential nutrients, and is loaded with unhealthy and non-essential nutrients which do nothing but contribute to obesity and resulting diseases. An equally increasing trend has been observed in the openings of new fast food locations. The fact sheet issued by National Restaurant Association shows that “970,000 new fast food locations were opened in year 2012 and the restaurant-industry share of each food dollar spent stands at 48%” (2012 forecast). Those parents who know about the adverse effects of fast food consumption try their best to keep their children away from it. But no matter how hard they try to shield their children, some negative forces like advertising provides them a complete exposure to such unhealthy food. A kid may never have eaten a McDonald’s hamburger, but he/she definitely knows what it looks like, thanks to the power of...
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...Fast Food Cause Obesity There has been a rise in obesity in this country for the last forty years. Many scientists and doctors have begun to question whether there is any relationship between fast food and obesity. According to the available information the number of fast food restaurants has doubled since 1970s. (Currie, J et al 2009).Currie J et al (2009) observe that the rise in the obesity cases in the last one decade has been directly related to the rise in the number of people choosing fast food as their main menu. Fast food has been described as food which is prepared in hurry for people who have little time during meal times. These foods are very popular with the students and working people since they do not have enough time to sit and enjoy a full meal course. Fast food include the fries and burgers .These types of foods are usually prepared in hurry to meat the rising demand especially during the peak hours. The popularity of this type of food is pegged on the fact that they are always ready and can be taken within a short notice as opposed to the full meal course where one has to place an order in advance. Most of our cities and towns have fast food chains located on every corner and at the same time our television, newpapers and radio stations are filled with advertisements enticing us to sample the different products in offer in these joints. It is worth noting that most of these commercials are usually directed towards children and youth justifying the reason why...
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...McKoy HON 410 Professor Yesudas Choondassery February 22, 2013 Our Future: What Fast Food is Taking From Us We as Americans are facing quite an epidemic when it comes to health. It is not as though the nation was stricken with some sort of plague or fell victim to some conspiracy. Unfortunately, the cause of our issues is much more in our control than I think we would care to admit. Our health is depleting at large numbers all because of our diet. The rates of heart related issues, blood pressure and diabetes are at astounding numbers. These medical concerns are costing the country billions of dollars in healthcare. Why and when did our health begin to plummet? Over past decades America’s love for junk and fast food is the culprit behind this country having one of the unhealthiest populations any continent has to offer. This fascination of fast food had to start somewhere. Not only that but so did awareness that this particular industry may single handedly be responsible for obesity in this country. There are few topics actually that will help to understand this phenomenon a little further beyond the awareness of fast food. There was legislation that was passed that was supposed to help Americans understand what they are consuming on a daily basis. We learn this is only as helpful as one is able to translate the information. Many people are lost when it comes to nutritional food labels and what the numbers mean when it comes to their personal diet and intake....
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...Fast Food Regulations People need food for energy and to stay active. When you eat healthy, you stay healthy and active and running. People need to eat fruits and vegetables and a good source of protein to stay going right. Fast food is not good food,for people to eat everyday. Most of the fast foods that people eat each day isn't the real type of food. Fast food restaurants usually don't use real food ingredients, they usually use other ingredients such as milk, breading, flour, etc. There should be fast food regulations to reduce BMI/obesity,reduce ads to kids,and remove unhealthy ingredients. We need to reduce BMI/obesity by eating less unhealthy thing like fast food and junk. Grover says " they found that the annual fast food transactions increased". This means that the numbers of fast food increased because people are eating more than they need. Grover states that:" They found that the average number of annual transactions increased." This means that the amount of fast foods increased. We need to reduce BMI/obesity by eating less junk food....
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...Blaming Fast Food Restaurants for Obesity Let’s face it; everyone loves a Whopper every now and then. Yet we are all aware that one too many can bring on dangerous and life-threatening results. Obesity is a growing problem in the United States and more and more children are being affected. But do uneducated families have the right to put the blame on fast food restaurants for their health issues they could have easily prevented? I believe that we are taking it too far by blaming fast food restaurants for obesity and that it is an individual’s responsibility to take the blame. The first fast food restaurants developed in America in the 1920’s and the United States has grown to have the largest fast food industry in the world. Currently one third of American children are obese or at risk of becoming obese and 67% of Americans are obese. McDonald’s was invented in the 1940’s and has since acquired millions of lawsuits for their extremely unhealthy food. Burger King soon followed in the 50’s and has also received its fair share of lawsuits. Some believe that suing consistently is acceptable because they are using their freedom of using the court system but many believe that it is a frivolous waste of time. Because fast food has become increasingly available, many Americans use the opportunity to eat their food whenever they want it and at a low cost. Yet when the visits are far too often they look for someone else to blame for their mistakes. Take Gregory Rhymes...
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...Does Fast Food Restaurants Contribute to Obesity? Business Research Methods 642 Donna Wall September 10, 2012 Abstract Within the scope of this research paper I will present the contributions that fast food restaurants have on obesity. The paper will identify some of the causal effect that were discovered through surveys and research of recent studies that were related to obesity. A definition of obesity will be present as well. Does Fast Food Restaurants Contribute to Obesity? Obesity has become an epidemic in America. Fast food restaurants are everywhere you look. We hear fast food restaurants advertisements on the radio, on billboards along the highways, in magazines and commercials on our televisions. Every child that is of age to talk can easily identify the arch and relate that to McDonald’s. Americans all over America have become consumed by these advertisements and have become over weight due to their food selection at such restaurants. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable deaths in America. For that reason alone obesity has become a topic that has been recently researched and discussed more and more over the last few decades. Researchers have thrived to develop a cause to such an increase in Americans that struggle with the problem of obesity. Are there variations between Americans who most often have home cooked meals than those who eat at fast food restaurants more that are often affected with obesity? Are there other contributions to food selection...
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...Humanity or Food Industries? Over the years food industries have been the blame for obesity when in reality it's the people's fault. They disregard the fact that fast food is atrocious because they still manage to invest their money into it. People show indifference when it comes to eating healthy which leads to bad eating habits and eventually obesity. It seems as people don't care about eating healthy and maintaining a stable diet. Obesity is optional, it is never mandatory to eat fast food. People just blame the fast food industries for personal reasons. Fast food throughout the world is advertised to the public but never forced to purchase. Article Fast Food Culture Serves Up Super Size America “hard for people to constrain...
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...Swanson 1 Kevin Swanson English 101 Dr.Polliard 3 May 2015 Fast Food Doesn't Cause Obesity? Fast foods have been around for decades now. Every day in America people turn to fast food for a quick meal. As the craze of fast food spread across the country people are starting to feel the negative effects of the quick meals and are blaming fast food for their health problems. But is it really the fast food companies' fault or the customers who consume their food? In modern day society the quickest meal someone in a rush can get is either some fruit or food from a fast food restaurant. Due to the fact that they want a cheap meal that will fill them up, they will go with the fast food restaurant. In a video titled "The Dollar Menu," a family shows that going with the smart choice of fruit instead of fast food will be more expensive than a burger from the dollar menu. The family blames their busy schedule for the unhealthy choices of fast food. The dad from the family in the video has diabetes. Everyone in the family is now immensely concerned that the youngest daughter might be stricken with the debilitating disease next. Swanson 2 Fast food restaurants are the prime suspect today in the obesity epidemic. The human body needs a minimum...
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...FAST FOOD AND OBESITY In the past, people in the United States used to eat healthy and used to eat freshly prepared food and meals with their families. Today, many young people prefer to eat fast food such as high fat hamburgers, high-carbohydrate French-fries, fried chicken, or pizza in fast food restaurants; therefore, these same people often suffer from obesity. “Obesity is defined as a condition in which the natural energy reserve of mammal (such as humans), which is stored in fat, is expanded far beyond usual levels to the point where it is believed to pose la health risk.” (www.society,guardian.co/publichealth/story). However, some traditional foods are eaten more often than in the past and many changes have occurred, causing serious effects on individuals and society. Obesity has become a major problem in the United States with over sixty percent of Americans being overweight. Obesity can be divided into three main causes – lifestyle, diet and education. There are many reasons for the popularity of fast food. One of the main reasons of obesity is change in lifestyle. Many people in the United States are working long hours, more shifts or extended school days, and do not exercise regularly. Therefore, the society’s attitude toward food and change in lifestyle leads to the over-consumption of convenient fast food, causing obesity. A second cause of obesity is poor diet. A leading nutritionalist, Professor Thomas Sanders, the Director of the Nutrition, Food and Health Research...
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...com/locate/ehb Fast food prices, obesity, and the minimum wage Chad Cotti a, Nathan Tefft b,* a b Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA Department of Economics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 1 August 2011 Received in revised form 22 March 2012 Accepted 9 April 2012 Available online 15 April 2012 Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is causal is unclear because there has been no attempt to separate variation in prices on the demand side from that on the supply side. We argue that the minimum wage is an exogenous source of variation in fast food prices, conditional on income and employment. In two-stage least-squares analyses, we find little evidence that fast food price changes affect adult BMI or obesity prevalence. Results are robust to including controls for area and time fixed effects, area time trends, demographic characteristics, substitute prices, numbers of establishments and employment in related industries, and other potentially related factors. ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: I18 J38 H20 Keywords: Fast food prices Obesity Body mass index ...
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...Out onto an interior atrium). Many cruisers prefer inside staterooms because these rooms usually are the least expensive on the ship. They also may feel that a stateroom “is only a place to sleep.” Late sleepers like inside staterooms because early daylight won’t disturb them. Suites are the most expensive accommodations on a ship. Some vessels have only a few, others boast an entire upper, conciergelike deck madeup of larger staterooms and/or suites. By the traditional definition, a suite should feature a living room, a sleeping room and a bathroom. This is not so on a ship. Except for the very largest-which resemble a room in a luxury hotel-shipboard suites typically feature, in the same rectangular space, a sitting area and a sleeping area, often divided by a curtain and featuring just under 300 square feet of living area. Suites can usually accommodate more than two people, making such accommodations popular for families (the sofa often converts into a bed). On certain vessels, an entire deck may be made up of suites and be called a concierge level. Guests on this deck may have access to concierge who helps arrange certain services for them. They may even have a butler at their call. Here’s what you find in a typical stateroom: Two single lower beds, either parallel to each other or at right angles. Sometimes the beds can be pushed together by staff to create a double or queen-sied bed. Larger staterooms boast double, queen, or even king-size beds. Staterooms with upper...
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...Title Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity Author Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University and National Bureau of Economic Research Inas Rashad, Georgia State University Michael Grossman, City University of New York Graduate Center and National Bureau of Economic Research Introduction Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention of late. In less than thirty years, the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents in America has more than doubled. In the 1963-1970 period, 4 percent of children aged 6 to 11 years and 5 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 19 were defined as being overweight. The percentage of children who are overweight has more than tripled by 1999, reaching 13 percent. For adolescents, the incidence of overweight has nearly tripled in the same period, reaching 14 percent (Centers for Disease Control 2001). Finding the causes of this dramatic increase in obesity among children and adolescents is an important input in designing prevention policies. On the simplest level, weight gain is caused by more energy intake than energy expenditure over a long period of time. The problem of energy imbalance is not purely due to genetics, since our genes have not changed substantially during the past two decades. Researchers have tended to focus on environmental factors such as the availability of highly palatable and calorie-dense fast food...
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...Alexa Pierre English 1102: Food and Representation 2 May 2012 Controversies of the Fast Food Epidemic In today’s society, when it comes to food, consumers want the best of both worlds. People desire instant gratification meals such as fast food, but also want companies to be good citizens. Statistics show that 85% of Americans think that consumers should get more than just the product for their money; their support should go to companies that don’t harm the environment or hurt people (Clark, “Fast Food Shake Up”). Is it possible for fast food companies to provide quick, satisfactory food without the health risks involved? Do fast food companies really have any correlation to obesity? Are we taking it too far by blaming fast food companies? When is it individual responsibility, and when is it appropriate to place blame? Regardless of the actual cause of obesity, the major health epidemic in America needs to be addressed (Clark). Before addressing the fast food products, it is important to start with the basics. Does fat in foods actually make you fat? This is a very simple, yet extremely controversial question. Back in the 1860s, an Englishman named William Bantig was so overweight that he didn’t dare doing simples tasks such as walking face-first down a flight of stairs because he was afraid of falling over. His doctor advised that he start a diet that was high in meat and alcohol, and low in fruits. Within months of this new diet, Bantig lost over 35 pounds....
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...Fast food restaurants are everywhere in today’s society. They are found in hospitals, attached to fueling stations, in grocery stores, and inside major sports complexes (such as Great American Ball Park). With the many locations of these restaurants, the question must be raised… are fast food restaurants making people fat? That question can be answered with a resounding yes! In 1968, McDonalds was operating 1,000 restaurants (Schlosser 3); Taco Bell was just getting started and Wendy’s opened its first restaurant in 1969 (About Wendy's). According to Pearson Education’s Info Please website, 13.3% of adults were obese in the 1960s (Info Please). Today, 35.5% of people are obese (Flagel et al. 491). That’s an increase of 22.2%. In the 1970s, Americans spent 6 billion on fast food (Schlosser 3). In the year 2000 alone, Americans spent more than 110 billion (Schlosser 3). Today, there are over 50,000 fast food chains in America according to Google Maps. What is obesity and why is it a problem? Tabors Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary defines obesity as “an unhealthy accumulation of body fat” (Tabors Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 1504). Obesity is clinically manifested (diagnosed) when the body mass index is ≥30 kg/m2 (Lewis et al. 2: 1035). Obesity is a problem because not only does it put more strain on the person during physical activity, but it also leads to decreased lung volumes from the heavy abdominal area placing pressure on the diaphragm (Potter et al. 826). ...
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