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America and the Power of Fast Food

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400,000 Americans died in 2000 due to lack of good eating habits, this represents almost 16.6 percent of total deaths (Ingram 16). This is a bemoaned fact that the FDA directly reviews only about 70 percent of ingredients found in food (Freedman). The American ways of fast food getting consumed too often. Eating too much fast food causing too many calories and an unhealthy diet. The effect of gaining weight when people move to the U.S. The enormous amount of profit that companies makes off fast food. Fast food restaurants are a disgrace in America because of the calories in each meal, people eating too much fast food, immigrants moving to America gaining weight, and the large amounts of money that people spend on fast food these factors together make it look that the future will not turn out well with very few healthy and large amounts of health problems. America has thousands of fast food restaurants and everyone has a favorite place to eat but is fast food taking over the food industry? About 40 percent of all meals today are fast food (Ingram 40). That is almost to 50 percent, so half of the meals you eat are fast food. You cannot be further than 152 miles from a McDonald’s (Jacques 1). It may seem impossible for this but many people do not notice how many McDonald's there actually are. It is impossible to pass through a city without passing a fast food restaurant (Ingram 30). In Belle Fourche there is are about 7 fast food restaurants and there is only a population of 5,000 people. 35 percent of American people go eat fast food at least once a week (Freiboth 1). Fast food restaurants are very difficult to get away from and seeing them everywhere makes the temptation of having your favorite meal even harder than it already is. Fast food being extremely unhealthy and having an over intake of the greasy food. Less than 1 percent of kids meals were healthy, 33 out of 5,427 meals meet nutrition standards (Jacques 1). Kids eating unhe

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