2. What is fast food?
● Fast Food is food that can be
prepared quickly and easily,
then sold to the public in
restaurants as a quick meal.
But, nowadays restaurants as
well as consumers take little to
no consideration if the food
meets sanitary conditions or, if
its healthy. The definition has
changed from food being quick,
and easy to being quick, easy,
and HARMFUL!
● Fast Foods are served in local
restaurants we all know such as
McDonald's, Burger King,
Popeyes, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut,
Subways, etc.
3. Why do people consume
fast food?
● Yes, fast food tastes amazing
but, the number one reasons
why humans consume it is not
mostly because of it's taste
but, because of their stressful,
time condensed
environments, laziness, and
inexpensive cost.
● These reasons provoke 1 in 4
Americans to visit a fast food
restaurant daily.
● McDonald's feeds more than
46 million people a day which
is more than Spain's
population
4. Is it worth it?
● Even though fast food is tasteful people
don't know the consequences of
consuming it.
● Fast foods are loaded with extra calories,
trans fats, sodium, and sugars.
● Consuming fast foods can lead to
obesity, high cholesterol, high blood
pressure, diabetes, heart disease,
arthritis, and even a heart attack.
● Obesity has become a worldwide
epidemic, and the US has been rated the
highest. It's now not only becoming
common in adults but, also children.
Obesity has been linked to many other
health issues such as hypertension,
stroke, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea,
respiratory problems, breast, prostate
and colon cancers, insulin resistance,
asthma, reproductive hormone
abnormalities, impaired fertility,body
pains and much more.
5. Facts and Statistics
● There are more than 300,000
fast food restaurants in the U.
S. alone.
● Statistics indicate that of all
the items on the McDonald’s
menu, except for seven of
them contain no sugar.
● Most children in North
America are able to recognize
McDonald’s before they even
learn to speak.
● Non-Hispanic black adults consumed a higher percentage of
calories from fast food than other races.
● 40% of American meals are eaten out.
● McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market.
● French fries are the number 1 "vegetable" in America.
● McDonald's distributes more toys per year then Toy's-R-Us.
● To burn off the calories of a Big Mac, large coke, and fries you
would have to walk 3 mph for 6 hours.
● The three most unhealthiest fries are Arby's curly fries, McDonald's
regular french fries, and Dairy Queen regular french fries.
6.
7. Interview
The best person to interview for the topic of fast food
would be an employee at a local fast food restaurant. For
my topic I interviewed our classmate Edwin.
● Do you eat at McDonald's? Why or why not?
Only during breaks because of the fact that its
free food but, edwin is sure to make the food himself so
that he knows it's clean.
● Would you consider the food good for you?
The prices at McDonald's are good but, the food
not so much. As proof of the unhealthiness of McDonald's
food Edwin went up 3 pants sizes in one month of
employment.
● What type of sanitary conditions are there at
McDonald's?
At work the other employees mostly only clean
when they are told to by the manager, and even then
they treat it as whatever. Employees aren't really
enforced into washing their hands. While getting food
from the preparing station to the drive thru sometimes it
falls, and is picked back up, and served to the
customers. Also, there has been a dead cockroach in the
ice machine.
8. Fast Food Article
● An excellent theory was made by an unknown author of a
nonfiction article about fast food. The author's proven theory was
that 43% of adults suffer from stress.
● Stress leads to laziness, and being tired, which then leads to
making bad choices. Hence people choose to buy fast food over
cooking a healthy home meal.
● High levels of Cortisol, the stress hormone, cause people to crave
foods that are high in fat, sugar, and also salt.
http://teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/301318/Fast-Food/
9.
10. Follow-Up
● Fast Food Nation is a nonfiction
book written by Eric Schlosser.
In this book Schlosser reveals
all the true facts about fast
food such as the effects,
profits, ways of advertisement,
etc.
● Supersize Me is a documentary
by Morgan Spurlock. For the
course of 30 days Morgan puts
himself to the test of
consuming only McDonald's
food. The end affects are
astounding.
11. Questions
● What are 3 effects that fast food can cause to the human body?
● Why do people consume fast foods?
● Do you think a BigMc and fries today is worth severe health
problems in the future?
● What percentage does McDonald's represent in the total U.S fast
food market?
