The Truth behind the Healthy American Lifestyle
America is a country known for its major industrialization over the decades but it’s also known for its major Fast food chains. As a result of our nation is changing their food morals, especially within our society. The American diet is a concern that arises. Although fast food is convenient for the busy lives of Americans, our society is ultimately worse off due to how fast food promotes unhealthy eating choices. Industrialization enhances the American identity while fast food regresses it.

For starters, people are constantly consuming fast food without any hesitation on what they're putting into their bodies. Since eating fast food more often can increase your risk of future health problems. …show more content…
Over the years, Fast food restaurants have been attempting to adapt to their consumers’ needs; proving how fast food restaurants are willing to change under pressure. Regardless of the Fast food restaurant, they have been trying to improve their ingredients by: adjusting to society’s demands; this doesn’t make these restaurants necessarily healthier. Wilson, the author of an online article “Birth of fast food” is explaining how, “The fast food industry has responded to these trends by offering a few healthier options, like salads, yogurts, and fruit. A number of chains, including Chipotle, bought local ingredients and humanely-raised meat. Salad chains like Chop’t, Tossed, and Saladworks have sought to appeal to health-conscious customers” (28). This is proving how not all fast food restaurants are filled bodily toxins like carbs, fat, and etc. Roman Espejo author of the book: “Fast Food,”offers the controversies behind these chain restaurants. He stated, “I like to call it “nutriwashing.” As the food industry finds itself increasingly under attack for promoting unhealthy foods, one of its major defense strategies is to improve, or to promise to improve, the nutritional content of its food” (Espejo 29). Espejo is exemplifying how fast food companies are trying to trick people into thinking that fast food restaurants are becoming healthier when in reality they’re are only …show more content…
Teens and children were a prime example. This is due to the fact that young adolescents/teens are often times doing an activity that would want instant gratification of fast food. This demographic is on the computer, watching TV, or on other forms of technology. The downfall to the leniency towards unhealthy options in the article Birth of fast food states,“ Fast Food is easy, cheap, high in calories, and marketed to the groups in society most subject to peer pressure- children, teens, young men, particularly from minority groups and low income groups, say Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition” (Wilson 22). Sadly, this quote is the harsh reality in society. On children TV channels like: “Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or the Disney network” advertise at least one type of fast food restaurants aiming particularly at children. Espejo gave an analysis report on fast food advertisements found on websites targeting adolescents, “The advertising coalition reports that $10 billion is spent annually on food advertising targeting children… In a three-month monitoring project, over 12 million children visited websites promoting food and beverage products” (Espejo 25). Proving how America is unaware the effects of unhealthy foods towards the younger