American people find their schedules consumed with career, family, and recreation. Preparing meals, let alone healthy ones, has been placed on the proverbial back-burner of an ever demanding list of must-haves and must-dos. Current lifestyles have led to the fast food industry and chains of fast food restaurants, and prepared or partially prepared meals are readily available. This trend has been the go-to choice of a busy population but with all the convenience that fast food brings, there are serious health issues to consider. The consumption of this in our society is affecting more than our eating habits. The too often intake of fast food may have damaging effects on our health including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Eateries have been in existence with most of human all civilization; as far back in time as the ancient Greeks and Romans. These people provided inns and taverns generally serving food to their neighbors or travelers. Taverns and coffee houses were popular places to gather and share beverages in the 17th century, the idea of eating out for pleasure didn't take off in Western society until the late 18th century. The earliest record of fast food ideas or similarities to fast food was believed to be tied to a German butler, Charles Feltman. In 1867, Mr. Feltman opened up a Coney Island hotdog stand in New York City, New York. In the documentary aired on BIO-HD, March 28, 2014 entitled, "101 Fast Food that changed the World," states that the hotdog is the number two fast food of choice of Americans and on each American Independence Day alone, we consume 155,000,000 of them. Mr. Feltman's entrepreneurship was followed by a man who developed with the notion of a horse-drawn lunch wagon named, Walter Scott. This conception served local workers and allowed them the opportunity to have a hot meal during the cold winter work day. In today's world fast food is defined as being ready when wanted, able to eat with one's