...The Effects of Fast Food Gaining weight, high cholesterol, increased heart risks, headaches and depression are only a couple of the many effects of eating McDonalds for a month. This is exactly what Morgan Spurlock went through in his documentary, “SuperSize Me”, when he challenged himself to eat nothing but McDonalds for breakfast lunch and dinner while also supersizing his meal whenever asked. The harm done to his body in just one month was shocking. How fatigued he always felt, the vomiting and especially the drastic weight gain were obvious. This just goes to show that fast food is something that Americans do not know enough about when consuming it. Fast food restaurants have become nothing but a negative influence on our lives socially and physically. It has become too available and convenient to a point where Americans would rather eat out and eat for cheap at a fast food chain near them. It is impossible to go somewhere without seeing a fast food place often, that is why people eat it so much. There are currently over 200,000 fast food restaurants in America alone, have we let this go too far? I believe that fast food is the reason for America’s obesity issue because of its availability, cheap prices, and quick service which make people choose the easy way out rather than cook a healthy meal. Some people may argue that, fast food places offer healthier choices like salads and water and people make their own choice to supersize their meal. They say that fast food is not...
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...perspective statesthat there are three correlating factors that contributes to the rising trend in obesity which are:socio economic, geographical and individual attitude or perception on feeding. FAST FOOD RESTAURANT The fast food in the world today is a growing business, Bender and Bender (1995) defined fastfood as a general term which is used for limited food menu that are used in the production linetechniques where suppliers specialize in products such as Ham-burgers, sandwiches, pizzas orchickens.Fast food critics have revealed that fast food frequent visitors are less active and lazier inhandling home chores while the other individual that eat home cooked meals is more energetic, proactive and handle chores better. They also pointed out several reasons why fast food may beless healthy than other type of restaurant food; these include capital, time, costs and signatorydishes (Spurlock, 2004 and Schlosser, 2002). But in the actual context, this may not be so for allfast food restaurants as more restaurants are going into more healthy meals for their customersand the public in general. In fact; evidence linking fast food and obesity is not strong enough andmuch of it is based on studies in small sets of data. 2 ted from parents. Consumers have conflicting reports on how much fatthe body needs and burns and all about metabolism are still not clear to some consumers. Thereis need for adequate and concise information to get to the consumer from a source they have noreason...
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...The effects of Fast Food on the Human Body Shannon Harvey DeVry University The Effects of Fast Food on the Human Body A mother driving home late from work is thinking about what to make for dinner that can be easily prepared. She sees a couple signs for fast food along the side of the road. She does not think twice and pulls into the dive through to pick up dinner for the night. This happens all over the world without a thought as to what is put into our bodies and what the consequences will be later in life. The problem with this is that more people are becoming obese and having other major health problems which are shortening their lives. The easiest way to stop this cycle is to be educated on the right types of food for the body and to learn to prepare meals at home. A good example of what can happen to the body come from the experiment ran by Morgan Spurlock and his team of doctors. What Morgan wanted to do was bring awareness to the growing problem of obesity in America. Most people have heard of the movie “Super-Size Me” and wonder why a person would want to knowingly do something harmful to their bodies and their families’ bodies. Over a thirty day time frame Morgan ate nothing but McDonalds three times a day and he only supersized it if the staff asked. Even though he though he knew what would happen to his body he was very surprised at the results and health problems than were a result from just a few weeks on a diet like this. The results were nothing short...
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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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...Shaunta Eskridge Word count: 496 What effects does fast food have on personal health and our social psyche? Fast food just the thought of it cringes my soul. I’ve worked in this industry for about five or six years off and on. There is absolutely nothing healthy about the way they store and prepare this food. Some items are boiled in a plastic bag then transferred into a metal pan. Meat patties are charbroiled and stored in sturdy plastic containers and are supposed to be tossed out in fifteen minutes or less, if not used. However from experience I can honestly say some employers demand that you restart that clock and don’t waste their food. By all means this is a lucrative business and they need to profit there is no room for loss profit or food shortages. That’s just a glimpse inside of what went on at my work place. It is at its most just convenience food. The fact that in some homes both parents work or that there are single parent homes; whereas the parent works and doesn’t have the time or patience to prep a home cooked meal and that fast food so to speak is easier to come by. It teaches us impatience we need our food now and it better look just as enticing as the picture. We as a society wonder why our kids love to binge eat on convenience food because we as parents are teaching them this learned behavior. We are so much in a rush that in our minds we just don’t have time to sit and ensure that our children’s health and ours are in jeopardy. We teach our children...
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...PROJECT PROPOSAL ON EFFECT OF MARKETING AUDIT ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED NIGERIAN FAST FOOD (A Case Study of MR BIGGS) BY OGUNRINDE FATIMO OLAIDE 090822049 1.1 Background to the Study In recent years, increasing pressure to reduce costs has forced many companies to radically reengineer the way they do business. This pressure is also leading marketing executives to reconsider the goals, structure, and effectiveness of their marketing arms. As a comprehensive review of a company’s market environment, the marketing audit identifies any inadequacies in overall marketing structures. It also identifies operational strengths and weaknesses and recommends the necessary changes to the company’s marketing strategies. If the marketing audits are done correctly, they will provide management with a useful and analytical tool for evaluating, measuring, motivating and revising management actions (Mylonakis, 2003). The growing complexity of the current market environment necessitates a more systematic scrutiny and evaluation process of the organisational preparedness to deal with the dynamic market. The existing information gathering and processing methods, generally, lack a comprehensive and integrated structure that incorporates the entire marketing function as well as providing strategic recommendations for action. The marketing audit, characterised as a systematic, comprehensive, objective, and independent approach, can assist the...
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...Title/Topic: Before and After Effects of Fast-Food advertisements in the perspectives of consumers/consumption behavior Introduction Food advertisements of different fast-food chains have always exerted massive amount of efforts to make their “ads” appealing and effective to the mass. From commercials, to billboards, to newspapers and etc., their advertisements caught the attention of consumers and it definitely paved way to make their sales at its peak. The problem is, sometimes, types of advertisements such as glittering generality, bandwagon and the like lead to giving false hopes to people for the sake of money. It even has come to a point where these companies prioritize “quantity over quality” that even the said advertisements lead to deception. The emerging world of advertising is inevitable and definitely uncontrollable. We, as consumers have been left with deciding whether to trust or to believe what the advertisements tell us. The effects of these food advertisements could trigger either positively or negatively in our lives. We become molded of these advertisements until they finally influence our lifestyle. We kept on being amazed and driven to purchase these products without knowing what it will affect us. This research will be beneficial especially to people who are fond of eating at fast-food chains. This research will identify how much our sensory and cognitive perception is affected by these food advertisements as well as its effect on our health. This research...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction There are many people who patronize fast foods. According to Bill Myers Online, fast food restaurants are easy to find in cities and towns across America. They offer meals for busy lifestyles that are so quick and convenient. These fast food meals are prepared in bulk quantities. These meals are prepared and served quickly for the convenience of the customers. Many Americans who patronize fast foods are considered to be overweight or obese. According to World Health Organization (2003), frequent fast food consumption is also a health concern because fast foods are loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats. It is also very high in sodium and other additives. It is a major risk factor for a large number of deadly diseases like hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, and even many types of cancers. Fast food chains are also wide spreading in the Philippines. Many Filipinos patronize fast food because of its convenience. As a matter of fact, a large portion of this population who patronize fast food chains is considered to be students. In West Fairview, Quezon City, you will find a lot of fast food chains. Many students from Far Eastern University – Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation are consuming fast foods everyday. Fast food chains are very accessible for students. It also offers variety of foods that are very affordable for them. The researchers conducted a study in Regalado, West Fairview...
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...Khairul Aznil Alkhaired Bin Kamarulzaman (2010817694) Muhammad Firdaus Bin Aminuddin (2010601584) Effects of fast foods among youths Introduction Food is one of the main necessitates we need to survive. Food mains goal is to provide our body with vitamins, minerals, and sustenance. Food ,which is supposed to be something safe and good for us, is now a high risk necessitates because of new technology and the way food is being made is so harmful that it is causing many people to become unhealthy to the point that some are dying from food such as fast foods. Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly and any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food (Jennifer, 2003). Fast food consumption has grown dramatically in recent years. The fast food restaurant has permeated every part of our country so much that, in some areas, it seems as though every small city one of the fast food restaurants will be there. Thesis Statement There are many effects of fast foods among youths such as fast foods can cause obesity, can lead to many diseases, and can cause depression. Development of the first main point One of the effects of fast foods is obesity. A condition in which the body has dangerous quantity of body fat is called obesity. The people who weight more than 20% than their usual weights are classified as obese persons (Alte, Schiff, 1998). Alte and Schiff (1998) also stated that a condition when the body has a lot of...
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...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, and other potentially related factors. ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: I18 J38 H20 Keywords: Fast food prices Obesity Body...
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...Mutah University ------------------------------------------------- “Effects of viral marketing on fast food restaurants customers’ satisfaction” Done by: - Ala Momani. - Saif Obidat. - Ala'a Al-qadi. Supervisor: Dr. Malek Al-Majali Index Subject | Page | Chapter 1 | | 1.1 Introduction | 3 | 1.2 Study statement | 4 | 1.3 Study questions | 4 | 1.4 Objectives. | 4 | Chapter 2 | | 2.1 Literature study | 5 | 2.2 Previous studies | 6 | 2.2.1 Measure of viral marketing impact on purchasing decision. | 6 | 2.2.2 Determinants of Customer Satisfaction in Fast Food Industry. | 6 | 2.2.3 The Viral makes you aware -How is brand association affected by viral marketing through individual networks? | 7 | 2.3 Fast food restaurants firms’ effort in social media | 7 | 2.4 Dimensions of viral marketing affecting customers’ satisfaction. | 10 | 2.4.1 Promotion | 10 | 2.4.2 Brand Awareness | 10 | 2.4.3 The Brand Trust | 12 | 2.4.4 Brand Association | 14 | Chapter 3 | | 3.1 Conceptual Model and Hypotheses | 15 | references | 16 | Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction Viral marketing is becoming a key instrument in marketing strategies now days, used by a lot of firms to achieve there goals. viral marketing uses the instincts of humans to communicate share knowledge and socialize with each other , due to the wide spread of the...
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...Topic : Effects of the kind of foods served in the school cafeteria. Date : 04/08/2012 Effects of the kind of foods served in the school cafeteria. We all know how much fast food is essential for human beings and other living things to survive. Earlier, people used to have healthy foods, but now eating habits are changing. Change in the lifestyle and because of the busy schedule, nowadays, most people tend to prefer fast food (junk food) which is unhealthy for us. The fast foods, which are poor in diet, can lead to very serious health issues especially in children. Children are more affected because schools and colleges mostly offer fast food and children also tend to choose fast food mostly for its taste. Fast foods have many serious effects on our body both physically and mentally. The first and the very common is obesity which is commonly seen in children. The busy hectic lives of parents and children make fast food an ultimate choice of food for them. Nowadays, both parents work so they get less to go and prepare healthy food. Hence, instead of healthy balanced diet, children opt for fast food which is easy and quick to make. This becomes a habit and children end up eating fast food almost every day. Taking in fast food means consuming unhealthy nutrients like more calories, more fats, more sugars, and more carbohydrates. In the first place adults only have to consume about 2000 calories per day, so; for example, one cheeseburger, a large order of fries, and...
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...1. Introduction In the public debate over obesity it is often assumed the widespread availability of fast food restaurants is an important determinant of obesity rates. Policy makers in several cities have responded by restricting the availability or content of fast food, or by requiring posting of the caloric content of the meals (Abdollah, 2007; Mcbride, 2008; Mair et al. 2005). But the evidence linking fast food and obesity is not strong. Much of it is based on correlational studies in small data sets. In this paper we seek to identify the causal effect of increases in the supply of fast food restaurants on obesity rates. Specifically, using a detailed dataset on the exact geographical location of restaurants, we ask how proximity to fast food affects the obesity rates of over 3 million school children and the weight gain of 3 million pregnant women. For school children, we observe obesity rates for 9th graders in California over several years, and we are therefore able to estimate cross-sectional as well as fixed effects models that control for characteristics of schools and neighborhoods. In the fixed effects models we focus on the openings of new restaurants and compare the difference in the change over time in obesity rates between schools that are located .1 miles from a new fast food restaurant and schools that are located .25 miles or more from a new fast food restaurant. For mothers, we employ the information on weight gain during pregnancy reported in the Vital Statistics...
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...quickly resolve your trouble. Fast food restaurants have been rapidly growing since the 1900’s and are now a food source we highly depend on as a society. It wasn’t long ago that the standard was for a family to sit down to a home cooked meal. This standard has severally changed over the years. While having the option to pick up dinner on the way home or have it delivered to our door is convenient, at what point do we stop to consider the dangers of consuming a heart-attack in a sack? What once was considered a treat has now become the norm carrying more than just health concerns. Fast food restaurants have become very beneficial over the years by offering us convenience, agricultural stimulus, and slowing increasing their nutritional values, it’s time to consider other ways they effect our society. Eric Schlosser describes fast food best in his book Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal when he says “It has become a social custom as American as a small, rectangular, hand-held, frozen, and reheated apple pie” (Eric Schlosser, 2002). Fast food has become more then just convenient for us, it has become a dependent. We no longer use fast food as an alternative when time is cut short but rather as a daily regimen. According to Statistic Brain, “50 million people are served fast food daily” (Statistic Brain, n.d). Fast food has several adverse effects that consumers are unaware of such as depression and addiction. Then there are the effects that we are aware of such...
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...Overview I first did my project over Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. The thesis is Schlosser speculates that the fast food corporations around the nation have a direct correlation with Americans being consumed by fast food and overall having poor health. Schlosser also talks about the impact fast food has on Americans as a society by pointing out some interesting facts, such as Americans spend more money on fast food than higher education which I personally find very alarming. The book is split into two sections: First, “The American Way” goes in depth about the beginnings of the fast food industry and how the major fast food restaurants came about and evolved. Second, “ Meat and Potatoes “describes the chemical flavoring of the food,...
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