The "Growing" Nation of America What is happening to America in the 21st century? ... The abundance and growth of the fast food industry is another cause of obesity. ... In 1970, Americans spent less than $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music -- combined. ...

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The film goes around the nation to show how each a zone of the nation is affected as a whole. ... Today there are many companies and franchises that sell fast food products. ... Obesity with children has also been fast growing and is still rising today. ... This means there is no time for physical activities where they can burn the calories from the fast food they had for lunch. ... Adults who can set goals for example not eating any fast food for a week or having a home cooked meal. ...

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It is essential that we as a nation begin to take our physical health more seriously. ... In 2001 Australians ate almost 1.5 billion meals and snacks from fast food outlets. ... It is so much easier to stop and get fast food and then continue on. ... If your mom made the food, then it was eaten. ... Others say that there is just not enough time to exercise or that fat free foods don't taste as good as fattening foods. ...

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The fast food franchises sure have made it extraordinarily convenient for a parent to pull up to a window and wait, at most three minutes, for their children's dinner. It is not enough that there is one fast food restaurant at every stop light. ... Making fast food a mainstay of a child's diet can have drastic repercussions in their long term eating habits and level of obesity. A super size fast food meal may exceed 1,600 calories, more than many people should eat in an entire day. When he signed the National School Lunch Act into law in 1946, Harry Truman said that "no nation is...

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According to Google Maps, there are close to 50,000 fast food chains across America. ... Along with the growing convenience of fast-food, many schools across the nation neglect proper physical education from Mississippi to Idaho. ... The fast-food industry is slowly but surely taking over America. There's a fast-food restaurant on practically every corner. Like I stated earlier there are 81 fast-food restaurants just in Boise. ...

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Our nation ranks highest for not only obese adults, but also children and adolescents as well. ... Today, portion sizes have increased tremendously at restaurants and fast food diners. ... More and more people are corrupting their eating habits and choosing fast food over anything. ... They are responsible for providing food, which means they determine what kind of food will be available for them. ... Exercise helps boost the body's metabolism or how fast the body burns calories. ...

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Much of the food that is made at hese fast food destinations have more than 2,000 calories. ... After eating at a fast food restaurant, that person wouldn't be able to eat for the rest of the day. the only options available after eating at a fast food palce are to either stave for the rest of the day, or to risk gaining a few pounds. ... with the technologial stage that our nations is now in, transportation is becoming easier and easier. ...

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Stop and visually think about different geographical locations and consider on how many corners or in how many shopping centers we have fast food restaurants. ... There are more then 300,000 fast food restaurants in the United States today. When this many fast food restaurants can be found it provides an easy avenue to choose to eat out. In fact, the typical American chows down three burgers and four orders of french fries per week, according to Eric Schlosser, author of the best-selling book Fast Food Nation. ... Fast food facts. ...

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The United States Government should employ food police to help these people shed those extra pounds. Stationed at checkout counters of grocery stores, fast food restaurant drive thrus, and mall food courts, they will be armed with a digital scale and will require anyone who is of a questionable weight to weigh in. ... The same food police, plus a few million "exercise enforcers" will be dispatched to various locations throughout the nation to ensure that everyone is meeting their exercise requirement for the day. ... Maybe, just maybe if taxes are raised to support this plan, people won&#...

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Because the U.S. government has heavily subsidized the corn industry it has made HFCS extremely cheap to produce, therefore is commonly used in most processed foods. ... Mark Hyman he states "that corn syrup is an industrial food product and far from natural or a naturally occurring substance" (drhyman.com). ... The foods that we eat from TV. dinners and fast foods all have massive amounts of sugar, just the way our stomach loves and demands it. ... In fact most of these products that are high in corn syrup are the nation's top brands and best sellers. Which is why I love store...

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Fast food and junk food in our schools is definitely a contributing factor to our problem. ... Its getting harder to find a nutritious lunch in school today, where many cafeterias are being turned into mall like food courts. ... These studies show that student who drink soda instead of eating a healthy meal, eat more food later because they were not filled. So students are consuming more sugar and food than they would if they just ate a regular meal. ... The National Association of School Nurses has stated that the fastest rising public health problem in our nation today is childhood obesity,...

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