"Food Justice,"" by Robert Gottlieb explores the effects of the American food market, as well as the impact of the fast food industry on the health of American citizens. ... The cost of eating healthy is difficult to manage under budget compared to purchasing fast or highly processed foods. Living under food stamps with the option of buying a three dollar head of lettuce or 3 cheeseburgers from McDonald's, fast food wins every time, which is why obesity has become such a problem for families living in poverty. ... The abundance of cheap fast-food options, coupled with the deficiency of af...

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First, excessive fast food intake leads to an unhealthy diet. In order to achieve a better taste, fast food companies are likely to cook food with high amounts of fat and salt. ... Although fast food companies claim that they can provide healthy, and nutritional food to children, the majority of food offered is high in calories, high in sugar, and high in fat. ... As a result, uncontrolled fast food consumption for children and not matching the daily limits of food nutrients lead to childhood obesity. ... Junk food, 2011).Tempting children to consume fast food is due to the advertisements of ...

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When looking at communities that had convenience stores and fast food chains in their vicinity, the outcome of obesity rates have the opposite effect. ... Convenience stores and fast food chains has more food at a lower price, but with a higher density of calories and lower nutritional means. ... When a family, living in a low income area has fast food restaurants in close proximity, they will not take the extra time and money to go to a supermarket to buy more expensive food for their family. ... On the "value" section of a fast food chain, a family can purchase 4 hamburgers, 4 fries and 4 so...

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Fast food restaurants encourages unhealthy eating habits that result in obesity. ... A Survey conducted in Jamaica in 2001 reveals that the trend of eating at least two meals at home is disappearing fast and fast foods are becoming the preferred diet of many Jamaicans. Consumers eat fast food due to their busy schedules. ... Fast food restaurants do good business due to consistency of meals and good marketing schemes. ... She also stated that most fast foods are too high in energy density (or calories), which leads to obesity. ...

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As a result, the policy eliminates any food and beverages that are non-nutritional, and suggest that 80% of the food and beverages sold in schools must be up to the nutritional requirements (EatRight Ontario). ... In addition, Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk mentions that by substituting fast food items such as fries and burgers that were previously served in cafeterias is why "students have abandoned the school cafeteria" and are eating off-campus. ... The policy also assumes that students cannot make healthy decisions amongst unhealthy choices; and as a consequence the banning...

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Vegetarianism should be promoted additionally with the fact that obesity increasing in rate due to the great quantity of fast food restaurants. These restaurants include one of the most popular fast food chains world wide, McDonalds, which has been recognized to be extremely excessive in unhealthy fat and carbohydrates. By converting to vegetarianism, such fatty foods are eliminated and obesity can be prevented. ... These are some of the nutrients that you would not find in unhealthy, processed food products that vegetarians usually avoid. ... Avoiding such products has high benefits due to th...

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Children become addicted to fast food, chips and other harmful products since they see these products all the time and get used to them unavoidably. ... Researches show that there is a proportional relationship between obesity and watching food advertisements. Children continue to eat while watching food advertisements and thus they get calories involuntarily. ...

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The individuals I am speaking of would like you to believe that fast food chains have a hold on American consumers. ... For many years, fast food restaurants have had an alternative menu for those who prefer to eat healthier. ... For years the fast food companies have been in business. Why is it just until recently have people been pursuing cases against the fast food corporations? ... Filing a lawsuit against a fast food corporation could be detrimental for us all. ...

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The advertisement campaigns for bariatric surgery done by Brandon Knowlden, showing high-calorie foods being equal to triggers for suicide, show how obesity has not just negative impacts on overweight people, but also can end up killing them. ... This imagery clearly sends the message that people who consume more animal fat are likely to gain more weight or fat than those who eat more of food made out of vegetable oil. ... Saturated fats are mainly found in animal products such as meat, dairy, eggs and seafood Trans fatty acids are found in many commercially packaged foods, commercially fried ...

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In homes where parents have to work and split household chores, it is easier to offer fast food than healthy homemade meals, she added that "My study finds that weight runs in families, but it's not just because of genetics. ... Most of these ads promote nutrient-poor foods and fast food restaurants, making it look attractive to the human eye, this APA points that "34 percent for candy and snacks, 28 percent for cereal, 10 percent of fast food, 4 percent for dairy products, 1 percent for fruit juices, and 0 percent for fruits or vegetables". Food ads on television make up ...

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The old fashioned family meal with a balanced nutrition has been replaced with fast food joints like McDonald's and Taco Bell and household staples have become frozen pizza and pre-packaged processed meals. ... You may have seen the public service announcement for people to take the stairs instead of the elevator to help leave there love handles behind or fast food restaurants providing nutritional facts about all of there products. ... The American public must stop suing fast food chains for making them fat and realize that it is not the corporations' fault-it is their own. ...

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Convenience of fast food, take-out and vending machines gives parents an alternate pathway to feeding their children instead of healthy cooking, healthy habits and healthy lifestyles. These foods are usually high in calories that result in children becoming overweight. ... There are other behaviors that affect this caloric imbalance such as watching television, consuming fast food and consuming large portion sizes. ... With this sedentary activity comes the role of television advertisements for energy and sugar filled foods that influence children and parents to make unhealthy choices when i...

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Over-consumption of energy dense and high fat foods with weak satiety value is considered a predisposing factor to obesity (Birch & Fischer 1998; NHMRC 1997). Over ¼ of Australians reported consuming high sugar fat meals and snacks (such as pastries, cakes, sweet biscuits, confectionary, high-fat fast food, ice-cream and soft-drinks) in total representing on average 1/3 of their fat intake and ¼ of their energy intake (ABS 1997, 1998 & 1999). ... Obsessive Dieting and Compulsive Eating is a form of control obsession, which centers around food. ... Controlling food intake, shape or weight b...

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Consumption of food energy is largely the outcome of eating disorder, physical inactiveness i.e. sedentary lifestyle and genetic plus some environmental factors. ... America produces enough food for everyone to consume 3,700 calories each day. ... In addition Americans are bombarded with food advertisements on TV, magazines, and newspapers. This encourages them to eat more food than they need. Fast American life is also a cause of unhealthy diet because time and money are the prime factors in an American's life than health. ...

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We used to work out together; we would go to hiking, running, riding a bicycle at the beach; we would start eating healthy and try to avoid fast food just to promote the wellbeing of our body and mind. ... She started to cut back on her food, and talk about how chubby she was all the time. ...

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