Fast Food

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will spend more money on fast food than on higher education” (Schlosser 1). The fast food industry has an obvious extreme hold on America. Fast food breaks off from its primary problem and causes many other dilemmas in America as it reveals itself as a source for issues such as laziness as childhood obesity has become so prevalent that it is viewed as the norm.
What is put into our mouths has a direct relationship with how our bodies function; garbage in, garbage out. According to Jeffrey Zurlinden, “Every day, about one-quarter of American adults eat at fast-food restaurants. Cheap, tasty, and convenient, fast food is loaded with saturated fat and calories, and it's low in fiber and nutrients. Thanks in large part to fast food, half of America's adults and one-quarter of its children are obese”(http://www.fa- ir.org/ai/fastfood_hidden.htm). Not only can fast food be a cause of malnutrition, it can also go above and beyond and be a benefactor in over nutrition. ...

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enough to keep customers at bay, then this country truly has become callous to the morbid and revolting truths of the business. Every company has skeletons in the closet, but who knows where the skeletons are at the rate of 10 cans of lard for every town.
Calories multiply abundantly in each serving of food, even in the seemingly nutrition conscious restaurants:
Burger King does not want you to know that a BK Big Fish Sandwich and fries have a whopping 1,000 calories – nearly half your daily caloric intake. . . Pizza Hut does not want you to know that a standard pizza in Italy contains 500 to 800 calories, but the same meal at Pizza Hut can top 2,100 calories. . . A plate of ...

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