...Home Cooked meals Vs Fast Food Home cooked meals are generally considered healthier than fast food, this is because fast food typically contain high levels of calories, saturated fats, sugar and salt. As you all know, we need to eat food to survive in this world. In the past time, the only way to eat was by hunting and searching for our food. Now in the modern day, just driving your car through a drive thru window or even just picking up the phone and ordering your food and it will be delivered to you. In the old days it was survival of the fittest motto that was lived by. Today you are faced with endless decisions of what you want to eat. The only real dilemma you are faced with today is how much money you want to spend or not to spend. To break it down you have two main choices to pick from. The first choice being home cooking, which is simply self prepared meals. The second choice is fast food, which is designed for ready availability, use, or consumption and with little consideration given to quality or significance. Home cooking is a positive choice for the entire family. Home cooking is a healthy meal choice. When you cook your own meals you have the options choose what food to prepare. You can also choose what ingredients to add to your food. You have the ability to prepare the food just the way you want it. You have a sense of ownership when cooking your own meals and an ease mind knowing what all is going into the food you are about to consume. Home cooking is...
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...A study conducted by Lauren Futrell Dunaway et al. in the New Orleans area found that “children whose family cooked dinner at home more than 5 times per week had significantly more consumption of fruit (64% vs. 58%) and vegetables (55% vs. 39%), but less soda (27% vs. 43%)” (1). Eating more fruits and vegetables and less sugary foods, like soda, help in maintaining a healthy weight. However, moving away from that healthy eating environment will cause college students to gain weight. Dunaway et al. also found in their research that “when children and adolescents are away from home, they are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages,” (7). Living on campus for the first time, college freshmen are not going to have their parents around to tell them to put down their sugary drinks, and with their newfound food independence, which means they have the freedom to choose what every they want to eat, they will put themselves on a path leading straight to the “Freshman...
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...Fast food vs home-cooked meals Today most of us eat out in fast food restaurants than we do at home, this could cause a variety of health issues, like high blood pressure and obesity. Fast food contains a poor nutritional value and is contributing toward growing obesity among population in America. Although fast food is convenient, inexpensive, and is basically a cultural phenomenon, we as a society need to stop eating fast food because it has increased health problems and has taken away from family values, destroys the environment, and has created a food economy dominated by giant corporations. In the United States today, obesity has become an enormous problem. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 34% of adults in America are obese, while the number of obese children in America is at 17%. Undoubtedly, America has become an unhealthy nation, too busy with video games and cell phones to be concerned with nutrition and health. Obesity in America is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. An estimated of 400,000 Americans deaths per year may be attributable to poor diet and lack of physical activity. The problem begins with our children they are easily influenced and raised by their families who serve as their role models. Fast food and advertising targeted at children successfully contributes to the obesity. Obesity can begin at a very young age. America is now filled with overweight...
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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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...changing face of the family’structure, Gourmet To Go (GTG) is a response to a demanding and time restricted schedule of a working mother. Gone are the days when the family is not with a “stay at home mother” who cooks nutritionally rich foods for the family’s good health. The current scenario is a working father and mother and father with kids in school. This is the foundation and the start up business GTG, responding to the ever changing times. Indeed, the above idea is a gold label for a start-up business. Necessity is the mother of invention in the science world. And with the changing face of the times, there is a necessity to respond to the needs of these families. True enough the idea of nutritious foods prepared carefully by people, with a consultant nutritionist and delivered right into one’s doorstep is a good strategy to answer this demand. Ms. Jones has this new concept of grocery marketing and plans to pioneer in this novelty business- delivering to the household doorsteps of young professionals of high disposable income and willing to pay for services packages of groceries for a menu of pre-planned recipes for a weekly meal. The nutritional requirements of the packages are considered, premium quality ingredients and the most efficient method for preparing the over-all meal included. Like all new businesses on birth, niche in the business and its future growth studied; operational aspects planned – organization, capital equipments, sales projection, required...
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...UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology PSYC3022: RESEARCH PROJECT IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY Parental Influence: Implications for the Prevention Of Early Childhood Obesity Abstract The overall purpose of this study was to investigate whether parents serve as role models in influencing their children’s weight-related behaviours. Participants were 60 random parents of children from Barbados. Unlike previous research studies, the correlation analyses of this study indicated that the junk food or fast foods children consumed was negatively associated with the amount of income made by the parents or their education level. Although it was found that some children do model their parents’ behaviour when it comes to healthy food choices, the findings show that parents do not enforce the healthy eating practices unto their children. This study did not support the theory that children model adult eating behaviours on their own. Parental Influence: Implications for the Prevention Of Early Childhood Obesity Some researchers in public health have concluded that the problem of early childhood obesity has reached near-epidemic proportions (Deckelbaum & Williams 2001; Puhl & Latner 2007). The problem of early childhood obesity and overweight appears to be on-going without implementation of early detection and prevention...
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...| 2. Introduction to fast food | 3 | 3. Introduction to pizza | 5 | 4. Domino’s Pizza | 7 | 5. Pizza Hut | 10 | 6. Papa John’s | 13 | 7. Comparative study based on 7P’s | 15 | 8. Key Findings | 17 | 9. Recommendations | 18 | 10. Bibliography | 19 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TITLE: “Comparative study of the various pizza outlets and formulating strategies for the weakest one.” This study was done to determine the strongest and the weakest brands in the Indian pizza market. The outlets chosen for the study were: Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s. We went to each of these outlets of Greater Kailash area and studied the 7P’s of service over there. After studying all the aspects of 7P’s, we came to the conclusion that the outlet satisfying all the 7P’s was Domino’s Pizza, whereas Pizza Hut was second with a few dissatisfactions. Papa John’s was the weakest one, with low customer base. Some of the recommendations for Papa John’s to implement, so as to increase their customer base and give more competition to the top 2 pizza companies are: 1. Advertise more on print as well as electronic media, so as to position themselves in the minds of the consumers, just like domino’s and pizza hut. 2. Decorate their interiors and lightings creatively so as to attract the consumers. 3. Introduce low budget pizzas so as to attract the teenagers and middle- income group people. INTRODUCTION TO FAST FOOD From onion rings to double...
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...reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2004, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2004-04-26 INTRODUCTION On November 7, 2003, Raghunath Medge, president of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust (the Trust), had just returned to his office in suburban Mumbai after meeting with Britain’s Prince Charles who was on an official visit to India’s commercial capital. The Trust was the managing organization of the dabbawallah meal delivery network (see Exhibit 1). The dabbawallahs’ service, often referred to as tiffinwallahs outside of Mumbai, was cited internationally by management scholars and industry executives as an exemplar of supply chain and service management. The service had acquired a reputation for its delivery reliability in Mumbai. International interest in the dabbawallahs was largely due to a 1998 article published in Forbes:1 Mumbai’s “tiffinwallahs” have achieved a level of...
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...Fast Food Chains Abstract The purpose of the study is to analyze the application of concepts and theories of managerial economics in relation to the actual data and information from the fast food industry and related companies. Two fast food chains have been studied and analyzed throughout the project. MacDonald’s and Burger King have been chosen as part of Fast Food industry because both companies are the biggest and closest competitors of each other; they both provide an insight of the frame of the industry, advantages and disadvantages of franchise system and production techniques, demand and supply chains, keys of success and weaknesses that could bust or hinder growth in short- and long-term. The study concentrates on demand and supply structure in the industry, market forms in which the industry can operate optimally, scope of production, production techniques, cost structures, prevailing market conditions and their impact on the firm, and financial analysis of the companies. To collect the relevant data, the companies’ annual reports were critically analyzed and evaluated for exact position to be sorted, the current market conditions to be measured and their possible future effects on the firms working environment to be evaluated. Companies’ Overview McDonald’s is located in 117 countries and on 6 continents and operates over 32,000 restaurants worldwide. McDonald’s is the clear market leader in the fast food industry. For 2010 the company...
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...JUNK FOOD AND IT’S AFFECT ON HEALTH Deatrice Bonner DeVry University Junk Food and it’s Affect on Health Melissa, who is an employee at a retirement facility has just graduated from college and wants to make some changes in her life. She just got a new job in her field as a Medical Assistant. Now that she has finished school her next goal was to lose weight. Melissa weighed 230 lbs. and she didn’t have any health issues, but lately she was feeling tired, having headaches, and have been stressed out. So she decided to join a gym membership because she felt like she had no motivation working out at home. She went to the gym five days a week for two weeks, but then it started going down to two or three times a week. She wasn’t eating strictly clean but started eating healthier foods. She did lose about 5 lbs. in two weeks, but then she stopped working out and continued binge eating and gained more than 5 lbs. during that time. So I tried to encourage her by going back to the gym and also preparing her meals for the week. I also told her instead of binge eating when she get stressed to go walking instead. I tried everything I could to help her lose the weight. I told her that she would feel a change in her body if she ate right and left the sugar and fatty foods alone. Many people don’t realize how harmful junk food can be to their body along with lack of exercise. Setting a goal to get rid of junk food and eating healthier can sometimes be very hard to do. We are either...
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...Food Product Design FMI Reveals Grocery Shopper Trends October 29, 2010 0 Comments Posted in News, Economics, Market Research, Market Trends, Consumer Preference, Dairy, Snack Foods, Beverages, Frozen / Refrigerated Foods, Confectionery, Fruits / Vegetables, Bakery / Cereal, Private Label Print ARLINGTON, Va.—It’s all about the deal for today’s grocery shopper, according to “U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2010," a report from the Food Marketing Institute (FMI). “Shoppers have gained a renewed appreciation for saving money through home-cooked meals, comparison shopping, store selection, brand preference, coupons and more," said FMI President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie G. Sarasin. “They choose to save money by eating at home but they also believe, overwhelmingly, that the food they eat at home is healthier than eating away from home. It is clear supermarkets are positioned to help their customers save money and help them make healthier choices when it comes to food." According to the FMI report, shoppers are spending an average of $99.90 weekly on groceries, up 1.5 percent compared to last year’s average of $98.40. The three top reasons for choosing a primary store are: Price (75 percent); high-quality fruits and vegetables (73 percent); and items on sale or money-saving specials (67 percent). With saving money at the top of their minds, consumers are buying only what they need and seeking the best value for their money, says the FMI report. They are also using...
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...Obesity has ranked as the fifth global leading death (Al-Rethaiaa, Fahmy & Al-Shwaiyat, 2010). In addition, a report about Globesity done by Bank of America Merril Lynch (2012) stated the number of adult death is reported with minimum 2.8 million per year is contributed by obesity which need extra 40% of total health care cost than normal people. The numbers of obesity have escalating over the decades and have become an epidemic disease which affect the quality of life. It increases the mortality rate and burden on government health care system in term of cost, sources and workforce. We eat to obtain energy and nutrients for survival and growth. Healthy eating is vital to obtain sufficient nutrition and health throughout life. However food...
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...I.INTRODUCTION Food is vital for humankind. It is crucial for sustentation and survival. It is also the foundation of every civilization. It is created and evolved by social dynamics, anthropological changes, technological innovations, economic developments, political conflicts and the construction of cultural identities of social groups, communities and nations. Within the field of food, street food has an important role. Street merchants and public markets are one of the world's oldest shopping tradition form. However, by virtue of the difficulty of effective controlling, health and hygiene issues might be threats to public health. Markets help the leveling and the development of health through reducing food insecurity and making food easier to regulate. Over the last century, the transformation of agriculture, and of streets, curbs, and other public spaces into transportation corridors, have helped produce the grocery store industry and pushed merchants and markets into odd corners of big cities. More recently, however, the rapid growth of farmers’ markets, swelling numbers of street vendors, and increasing attention to public health concerns, such as diabetes and obesity, particularly among children, minorities, and the poor residents of urban, has produced a growing interest in open air food marketing. [1] During the last century public markets played an important role in economic and social development. Though nutrition was an important aspect of public health served...
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...the child? It is easy to automatically draw judgment on those that are overweight in our society because, although obesity is more prevalent in our society, it is still seen as socially unacceptable. This paper will seek to understand the contributing factors to obesity as external, internal, or environmental. Obesity in America A Family Epidemic In addressing the problem we must first discuss the main points that are essential to understanding why obesity is increasing in the U.S. and most of all among our children. The initial analysis of environment, choice of nutritious meals, as well as the influence of society will provide insight to the cause as well as the solution to the obesity epidemic. Once examined the data will prove the argument presented at hand. The main contributors to obesity among adults but especially among youth are, environmental factors, lack of choosing nutritious meals, portion distortion and the factor that fuels all of these, advertising media. So what defines an individual as being obese? Childhood Obesity Action Coalition-OAC.( n.d.) states “A child is defined as “obese” if their body mass index-for-age (or BMI-for-age) percentile is greater than 95 percent. A child is defined as “overweight” if their BMI-for-age percentile is greater than 85 percent and less than 95 percent.” The body mass index is the number calculated from an individual’s weight and height. The percent of individuals with an obesity rate of 25.0 or higher has more than...
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...provide useful information that will determine if the fast food industry is responsible for obesity, which is a rapidly growing public health issue in United States. Prepared for Professor Eugene Fregetto, Marketing 452 Research completed by Team 7: Sara Garcia – (708) 770.8682 Garcia.sara59@gmail.com Jessica Gardeck – (847) 363.3389 jgarde4@uic.edu Lisa Elizabeta Komolova – (630) 857.8129 lisakomolova@gmail.com Krunali Sheth – (630) 903.8320 ksheth2@uic.edu February, 2012 The need for the project A large amount of the United State’s population is suffering from obesity. Throughout the years the well-being of the American population has shown a negative movement and a large number of people are experiencing a decline in their health. Obesity being a common health issue in United States is concerning to health care providers because it is progressing into a costly expense for those companies. The amount of fast food restaurants in United States is constantly increasing and to improve the reputation of junk food the restaurants have been trying to introduce reinvented products with a healthier approach. Unfortunately the new products lines and its menu alternatives are still not living up to the standard of a proper diet. The research will provide us with useful information about obesity, people’s attitudes towards fast food and their life-style choices. The information will determine if the fast food industry is responsible for obesity, which is a rapidly...
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