The+Cause+and+Effect+of+Eating+Fast+Food



Heather Holloway


 * __ Is Fast Food Healthy? __**

**__ The Effects of Eating Fast Food, on the Human body __** **For starters, when people eat fast food it’s commonly for one of two reasons: fast food is cheap or it’s a quick and easy meal to have. But just because the food is cheap doesn’t mean you should put your health at risk. When someone eats too much fast food they can become addicted to it. The fat and sugar in the food can cause a change in someone’s brain which causes the addiction and changes the ability to put down the food. Some things that can happen to people if they eat fast food is: you can become obese, which can lead to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is a very serious disease; it can cut 17-27 years of someone's life. Obesity can also cause the following thing: Heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, and strokes. Fast food can cause obesity which can cause all those things and more, so say no to fast food!** __How Fast Food Has Affected Other People__ **
 * [[image:heathers_pic_3.jpg width="234" height="155" align="left"]]Chicken McNuggets, Big Whopper, Double Stack, McFlurry, Crispy Chicken Deluxe, Chicken Club, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, and McDouble. What are all those? Well, they are some popular foods from local fast food restaurants. Such as: McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King and more. But the lingering question is, “Is fast food healthy?” Well the answer is no. Why is the answer no? The answer is no because there are so many bad things about fast food. All these bad things fall under these three categories: The effects of eating fast food on the human body, how fast food has affected other people, and fast food facts. **


 * [[image:heathers_pic_1.gif align="right"]]Fast food affects everyone in different ways and here are two stories about how fast food has affected other people. For the first story, a little girl named Lauren Beth Rudolph ate a hamburger at the local Jack-in-the-box. But what they didn’t know about the burger was that it was infected with E. coli 0157:H7 which can cause food poisoning and that just what it did to Lauren. She was admitted to the hospital on Christmas Eve, when she was there she suffered terrible pain, had three heart attacks and died on December 28, 1992 at age six. The cause of the E. coli 0157:H7 infecting the burger is that the bacterium was on the cow from the beginning. For that same reason as Lauren, at the same time 200 people were hospitalized and four died. Now for the second story, this story is about a man that took a high risk to his health. This man’s name is Morgan Superlock and what he did was for 31 days he ate McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The effects that he got from eating so much fast food were, he was tired all the time and his liver was damaged. He also gained 25 pounds and his cholesterol (fat like substances that clogs arteries and can lead to heart attacks) had gone up extremely. **


 * __ Fast Food Facts __**
 * Now for some facts about fast food, there are a lot of things people don’t know as much about fast food that they should. For example, the hamburger people eat at fast food restaurants could contain meat from hundreds, even thousands of cattle. Also people are better off having a home cooked meal because it is much lower in calories than dinner at a fast food restaurant. An example of how bad fast food is, when you eat a large fry, a person will consume 500 calories and 25 grams of fat. It is better to eat a small fry because it has 230 calories and 11 grams of fat. Also another interesting fact is that the more fast food people eat the more body fat people gain, the more there brain loses its ability to respond to the hormones that tell you to put the food down. If people eat too much fast food over a long period of time it can lead health problems such as: high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. Also McDonalds operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries on six continents. To learn more please ** ** visit these websites: ** [] ** and ** []


 * In conclusion, fast food is very bad it can affect someone's health in so many bad ways. So [[image:heathers_pic_2.gif align="left"]] if people really do care about their health then they will cut down on the fast food. Fast food is ok to have every once in a while but not all the time. If people do eat fast food all the time then they can get heart attacks and other things that affect someone's health in a bad way. So all of this research proves that fast food can affect anyone of any age in a terrible way, so say no to fast food! **

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 * March 16, 2010.**