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Imani Lima



Most people like the taste of a big cheeseburger from the local McDonald or Burger King. It is part of most people’s life and is an easy way to get out of making dinner. One thing that fast food restaurants do is get customers to want to come into their restaurant, and keep customers coming back. They don’t tell customers how it effects people’s health by not telling customers the packaging or the nutrient facts. For example, food packaging has a picture from a farm to make it seem fresh and healthy because it came from a natural place. They really don’t come from a farm; they come from a factory just like everything else.

The fast food industries also commercialize meals to make them sound better and make people want it. Like has it ever been noticed that a burger that is seen on television looks better than it does in real life? That’s because the restaurant wants people to want their product. They also target kids as one of their top customers. They do this by using “Happy Meal” toys and even clowns as their way to want kids to come in. Hopefully it’s in peoples’ minds that even if they don’t eat fast food they still will get processed food. All the food at the market are produced and just because it’s served at market does not mean that it’s healthy and fresh. **__How does fast food Effect PEOPLE __** A lot of people know that what’s bad for the human body, but they don’t really know the truth. Most of the food that customers buy at local McDonalds or Burger King contains an entire days worth of sodium. That remains one of the top reasons for obesity. Anyone who goes and eats at those places are most likely eating more calories than they are using which is creating a person to gain extra weight.

Daily cholesterol intake should not exceed 300 milligrams and most foods found at Taco Bell, McDonalds, Subway, Arby’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Jack in the box, and Kentucky Fried Chicken and so on exceed that limit. The human body has a hard time metabolizing the trans- fat in the food, which results in clogging up of the system and the fat builds up along the walls of the blood vessels and on the surface of the brain; increasing the risk for heart attacks and stroke. When someone eats constantly, when they’re not hungry or full, the body loses the ability to tell when it doesn’t need food. This end to people eating, and eating, and eating. When someone indulges in non-stop eating, it increases the LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) in the body while decreasing the HDL (High Density Lipoprotein). This leads to someone’s cholesterol increasing, and that’s when someone starts to gain more weight than they usually would.

The fast food industries, that people know and love, do things to trick people…
 * __What the industries do __**

1) They reuse food that wouldn’t be thought of being reused. According to Pure Writing the article “What restaurants don’t tell you”? Some fast food industries reuse food to save money. For example if at the end of the day if there was a cheeseburger that remained there, they would put it in the refrigerator and save it to sell another day. 2) Half the people that work there don’t even know what they are serving people. They don’t know the nutrient facts behind what they are making. The government is trying to make it a law that workers have to know the health facts of what they are serving, but the law hasn’t been activated yet. 3) One target that all the industries have is children. This happens by using toys, clowns, and kings that love their product. They want to get the children wanting their product so that the kids will beg and plead to their parents and usually get what they want. 4) They also increase their portions so that it seems like a better deal for the customers but they really jip customers by giving them more unhealthy food. By giving them more food it really doesn’t cost them much money to buy that cheap unhealthy food they serve, so it’s a deal on their part but not our. 5)    They give the illusion that something is healthier by putting the words “low-fat’ in front of it. This makes it sound healthier but it’s really not. All they do is take some fat out and add in other things. It’s actually high in calories and low in nutrients, not really low in fat. 6) They don’t tell costumers how it affects people’s health by not saying the packaging or the nutrients facts. For example, food packaging has a picture from a farm to make it seem fresh and healthy because it came from a natural place. 7) Most the food made in the fast food restaurants turn out to have a whole lot of corn in them. Even regular food found at a market has corn made in them but not as much. 8) Fast food and unhealthy things are cheaper than the healthy items on the menu. That’s one reaso0n why people pick the unhealthy things, because they’re cheap. 9) “Faster, Fatter, Bigger, Cheaper”

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January 25, 2010

Next time someone goes into a fast food resturant think twice about whats in there and how it got there!