...whether fast food is better than home-cooked food has been long in question. There are many common attributes between the two. The first noticeable similarity is that they both provide a variety of choices. There are a number of selections available in fast food restaurants as well as at home. However, the main concern which is healthier and pose less risk to you. There are currently 160,000 fast food restaurants in America which has more than doubled since 1970, and 50 million are served daily. (3) Coincidently, 33.8 percent of the U.S. population is affected by obesity and 19 percent of children and adolescents are also affected. It's no mystery that one of the major factors behind these numbers is the ever-increasing presence of fast-food diets among American families. On-the-go parents feel they can save precious time at the drive-through while lower-income families believe that the bucket of chicken and the deep-dish pizzas are saving them money. While the former might be true, the latter is an illusion. Most fast foods are polar opposites of healthy foods. Fast food contains foods that are high in fats, sugars, and starches. These ingredients have almost no nutritional value to the human body. Most of all foods available to us, through fast food are processed and high in MSG. MSG is a concentrated salt added to foods to enhance flavor, this results in unwanted body fat; which can lead to obesity, heart disease and diabetes among other health problems. Healthy foods, by contrast...
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...Healthy Person A human body is a lot like a machine such as car engine, there are many moving parts which keep it running and from time to time maintenance is required in order for that machine to operate at peak efficiency. Much like the car engine needs oil, lubrication and fuel to operate smoothly, so does the human body. If the improper fluids or fuel are used in the engine it may operate for a while before the systems begin to shut down. This is similar to the human body, because although foods such as candy, soda and cheeseburgers may be taken in and have enough vitamins and minerals to keep the body running, it may still not contain the proper amount of nutrients that that it takes to maintain it for a long period of time. The human body requires certain nutrients that healthier foods can provide while unhealthy foods contain additives and preservatives which are harmful to the body. If a diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, grains, low-fat or nonfat dairy products, and other such healthy foods are consumed, the human body will be much healthier than when a diet consisting of prepackaged and unhealthy foods are consumed. According to the (Centers for Disease Control [CDC]. 2004a), there are more people consuming foods that are prepackaged because they are fast and convenient, but are higher in fat, sugars, and calories. The portion sizes have also increased, and many are consuming calories from too much food in a single meal which can lead...
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...Physical Behaviors Relating to Food It is obvious and should be common sense that what a person puts in his or her body will have a direct effect, not only on the person’s overall physical health, but also his or her mental health, emotions, think, and the ways of processing information. The most influential factors regarding human intake are air, water, food & beverages. I will be concentrating on the main focus of the direct effect of food on emotional and physical behaviors. The human body was designed to function as a highly-tuned, self-sustaining, bio-chemical machine that has a very complex system of symbiotic interplay within its infrastructure. Just as if a person was to put water in the gas tank of his or her car, as a result he or she has major mechanical problems requiring massive repairs. The human body has certain limitations and guidelines that must be very closely adhered. The human body must maintain critical balances to remain healthy and working the way it was intended and to be able to balance the effects of food on human beings. Nutrition is a basic biological influence on human behavior. Consuming large amounts of “junk food,” like sweetened boxed cereals, candy, carbonated drinks, potato chips, and fast food cause depression, hyperactivity, and even anger in children and teenagers. The amount of candy eaten by children and sometimes adults also causes major sugar imbalances to occur in the human body. In the article “Food Traditions: The Thread that Links...
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...out about 50 percent of the American population is considered obese, and its still heading that direction. What might be a perfect explanation as eating too much food and too little exercise might be one of the many reasons, but it turns out obesity is led by many other habits such as; chronic stress, sleep deprivation, laziness, or reason like not having a local grocery store close by can cause high risk of becoming overweight and even obese. There an obesity epidemic in American that can be stopped by affordable life changes that can save a lifetime, by changing diet habits, increasing physical activity having a faster access to fresh food with fewer visits to fast...
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...eating junk food Nowaday, each person have not normal meal. They usually eat your meals and eat more junk food that has a lot of energy such as fast food, sweets such as ice cream, candy, donuts, and prepackaged treats, soda, and potato chips, among many others. So, junk food became popular in the developed countries. It became the eating habits of many people, because many people think it tastes great, fast, and convenient. However, junk food has a significant impact on human health. It affects a serious way, because it is the cause of health problems. First, the effect of eating junk food is energy imbalances. Many people skip breakfast or other meals of the day, choosing for a quick meal instead of eating a perfectly meal. Junk food is cause of increase energy levels, which people like, but then energy levels will quickly decrease. It makes the body lacks the energy suddenly and rapidly declining. In addition, continuous increase or decrease energy levels make for mood instability and make it difficult to get enough sleep at night. Thus, junk food causes energy imbalances in the body. Furthermore, the effects of junk food is healthy, because most junk food are mostly sugar, salt, flour, fat, and more dangerous that is saturated fat which is the main cause of obesity. People who eat a lot of junk food tend to gain weight quickly, which can lead to obesity over time. Moreover, in a short time, fat will make fatigue and difficulty concentrating in body, because your body might not...
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...August 2012 Thesis: Fast Food is the cheapest food man can buy, but it is not at all the healthiest. We are led to believe that this food is good for you when in reality, it’s nothing but harmful to the body and it needs to reveal it’s true identity. I. The average fast food meal a. Nutritional information i. Comparison to normal food b. Effects on human body i. Damage over time ii. Compare to a life without fast food II. Media a. How it convinces it’s customer’s to buy their food i. Strategies used to “reel” customers in ii. How they keep people coming (i.e. value menu, etc.) b. Advertisements that bend the truth to attract more people i. Different styles of advertisement ii. Other ways to attract people (i.e. smells, visual appeal, etc.) III. Reasons a. Why people still eat it when they know it’s bad i. Prices ii. Convenience iii. Availability IV. Prevention a. How to avoid eating fast food b...
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...Economics and Human Biology 11 (2013) 134–147 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Economics and Human Biology journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.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...
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...to avoid the practice because it slowly affects their health negatively and may lead to death eventually. Majority of the systems in the human body are affected by continuous smoking of cigarettes and other drugs. Usually, smoking involves inhaling of puffs of smokes of such things as tobacco and other drugs which have some effects on an individual. The person may be doing this as he seeks pleasure, relaxation and other means to satisfy his addiction. Smoking is not a practice to encourage and as we shall see, it affects the lives of persons negatively. Smoking affects the digestive system. This is where it affects the release of certain hormones that deal with digestion of food in the human body. Such hormones include rennin and pepsin in the stomach. These are the hormones involved in the digestion of proteins. Rennin is involved in the process of curdling milk while pepsin changes proteins to peptides. This may affect the health of a person excessively if it is no controlled. Some of these problems are digestion problems. Smoking may also slow down the release of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This is the acid that kills bacteria present in food. This makes food to pass fast enough before the aid is produced. When this happens, the hydrochloric acid ends up corroding the walls of the stomach when released since it does not find any food. The corroded walls of the stomach are what are referred to as ulcers. This is a very serious condition that needs to be corrected before...
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...Fast Food causes and effects The Combination of problems associated with fast food restaurants and an increase in national food consumption have resulted in negative health effects such as obesity, poor health and disease. We as Americans are always on the go; we need things fast and at our disposal. The home cooked meal is a luxury to some because many don’t have time to be home preparing meals. So fast food may be first on the list. Unaware of how the burger we just consumed, the chicken sandwich or even something as simple as a salad was produced, cleaned and transported to the fast food chain restaurants, most never worry about the health and safety risks this can cause to the body and the human population. My argument is that we should be more careful and conscientious to what we eat. Obesity has become a national issue a lot of health issues have been associated with obesity. Since 1970 the amount of fast food restaurants in businesses doubled which equates to almost 300,000 establishments in the United States. It is a coincidence that 33.8 percent of the U.S population is affected by obesity and 19 percent of children and adolescents are also affected. Meaning the more fast food restaruants we create the more likely we will frequent these establishments on a day to day to basis. Many fast food items are high in calories and grams of fat. If you purchase a McDonalds Big Mac which is 540 calories and 29 grams of fat, a Medium Fry 380 calories and 19 grams of fat...
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...high caloretic foods are easy to find in our daily lives but contain hazards to the human body, not just short term hazards but also long term. The use of these products can lead to slowing blood flow, clogged arteries, low states of energy, and other life changing health issues. Products that are seen as being harmful to the human body have been commonly referred to as “sinful”. In order to regulate and lessen the long term effects due to the intake of dangerous substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy foods the government has resorted to increased fees on these items dubbed “sin taxes”. The United States Government wants to impose new regulations and taxes on products that are considered by most “sinful”. While some measures to eliminate the consumption of high content calorie soft drinks have come under fire as of late, other products have been in the spotlight for many generations. Research has shown that the use of some products, such as tobacco and alcohol, have lifelong negative effects on the human body and bystanders alike. Tobacco use has had a progressive rise in the past few decades due to marketing and the widened use in movies and other broadcasted programs seen by many people. In turn consumers assume the use of tobacco is a “cool” thing to do and find themselves soon addicted to these products. Unfortunately users disregard the statistical facts that the short and long term effects of tobacco use not only hurt the human body but those around...
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...The Real Face of Overeating Restaurants, fast-foods, snack kiosks, and vending machines are on every corner offering all kinds of food. There are unlimited choices for people who like to spend their spare time enjoying a meal at a local sandwich shop, or for busy people who eat on the run, or for sports and movie fans who like to watch favorite shows surrounded by bags of chips and cans of soda. Food plays an important role in human life. People eat not only to satisfy physical needs, but also for pleasure. Eating at the restaurant is a great relief for a person after a busy, stressful week. Also, food provides important nutrients for the human body. A balanced food diet makes a great contribution to human’s health, but overeating can lead to devastating consequences. Why do people overeat? There are psychological, physiological and social causes and effects of excessive food consumption. Overeating and its consequences have become a twenty first century disaster in the United States and across the globe. One of the major causes of overeating is the psychological state of a person. Nowadays many factors influence human emotions. One of them is stress. Exposure to the constant stress of everyday life significantly disturbs people’s psychological health. It can cause light or deep depression, mood disorders, anxiety disorders as well as eating disorders. There are different ways of coping with stress, and often people turn to food as a relief from their problems. Harvard research...
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...resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is the science of food linking to health and nutrition. It explains exactly what the human body does with the food we | |eat from the moment we put it in our mouths till it is finally excreted from our body. Nutrition is key in maintaining optimal | |health throughout our lives and is even more important as we grow older. | | | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |Proper nutrition is what keeps people healthy. Maintaining proper nutrition throughout like will greatly reduce the risk of many | |diseases and condition that are preventable, such as obesity. The risk of heart disease and diabetes are directly connected to | |nutrition. In taking too much of many nutrients can be harmful to the body. The increase in health in America has shown a decline| |in heart disease, cancer, and stroke fatalities in recent years. This shows the importance of nutrition in relation to health. | | ...
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...a young, healthy vegan man by the name of Morgan Spurlock experiments with his own body in order to see the disastrous effects of fast food on the human form. After a month of eating nothing but McDonald's, Morgan suffered from a 13% gain in body mass, cholesterol levels of 230, rapid mood changes and embarrassing sexual inadequacy. He was unable to complete the program after being told by a medical professional that “he was going to die” if he continued on the current diet. Thankfully, Morgan was able to quit and return his body slowly back to the healthy shape it once was in, but this happy ending isn't always the case for millions of Americans. Left untreated, obesity will surpass smoking as the main cause of preventable death. Between the ruthless marketing, placement of restaurants in low income neighborhoods and near schools, massive portion sizes riddled with fat and carbohydrates and more than 46 million people eating out at only McDonald's daily, fast food has easily gone from a “once in a while treat” to one of the most menacing killers in the country. Portion size and ingredients play a grand factor in the fattening affects of fast food. According to research gathered by Washington State University, Fast foods contain substantially fewer vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin A, carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium and zinc. (“Does Fast Food...,” 2011) Doctors Lisa R. Young and Marion Nestle state that portion sizes started...
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...Junk Food Affects You: Final Draft Shelbi Oakley DeVry University Online Junk Food Affects You Josh looks around the playground to see all his friends having fun. They’re swinging, playing tag, drawing with chalk on the blacktop, and picking teams for a basketball game. Everyone’s got a smile on their face and they’re full of so much energy. He’d love to be chosen to play on someone’s basketball team, invited to play tag, or having fun doing anything else other than sitting by himself in the grass. Instead, he gets picked on by other kids about being overweight and is always tired after a short time of going up and down the stairs of the jungle gym. Like many kids his age, junk food, candy, sweets, and fast food become a way of life and a quick and easy dinner picked up in the drive thru is much easier than taking time and effort to make a healthy one at home. Josh’s mom gets fast food for dinner 4-5 times a week, which is the average for Americans today (Americans eat out about 5 times a week, 2011). She works a full-time job and has to pick up Josh’s little sister from daycare after getting Josh from school. It’s hard for her to plan and prepare a wholesome dinner after a long day at work. This is not an uncommon scenario for many adults and kids alike in the U.S. and around the world today. Fast food and junk food have become the norm to the everyday diet. There are more and more restaurant chains...
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...Persuasive Paragraph: Why Fast Food Is Harmful to the Human Health Fast foods are not good for individuals because it causes more harm than good to a person’s health and growth level. It is a major cause of obesity and other health challenges. Fast food's bad reputation stem from a number of factors, but the primary issue is that fast foods are abundant in a handful of unsavory substances: sodium and trans-fats. These compounds wreak havoc in your body, and the more of them you eat, the more damage they do. It is a money consuming meal; statistics show that more than 50,000,000 people in United States of America depend on fast food. Americans alone spend over 110 billion dollars for different types of fast food; that is over a quarter of Americans. The effects of fast food can be disastrous. Studies have shown that people who eat fast food more than twice a week drastically increase their chances of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and a host of other chronic problems, such as cancer and obesity. The most deadly substance in fast food trans-fat. The resulting fat is considered by the American Heart Association to be one of the most deadly things you can consume today. For example, a standard burger at most fast food restaurants contains 10 grams of sugar, which is about as much sugar which can be found find in a couple of cookies. Fast food breakfast items have even more sugar, and that's without the syrup. Secondly, fast foods are empty calories...
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