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Brianna Calhoun BRIEFING Is My Burger going to Eat me Instead of Me eating it? Fast Food is Taking over our Lives. Can we Survive with Fast Food? Is Fast Food Killing Us? The number of Fast Food costumers is 50 million each day. Of these, 6% or 3 million, eat Fast Food every day. An estimated 300,000 deaths a year are related to obesity, according to US Surgeon General David Satcher, who called for removal of Fast Food from schools due to a growing epidemic of obesity. Obesity can lead to many other diseases, including: type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, sleep apnea and stroke. Are the Ingredients In Fast Food Causing Health Problems? 1. High Carbohydrate/Simple Sugar – Increases risk of heart disease, diabetes, depletes key nutrients (B Vitamins and Minerals). 2. High Fat- Increases risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. 3. High salt- Raises blood pressure. 4. Low Fiber- Associated with Figure 1. Hamburger with fries and a increases risk of colon caner, drink heart disease, diabetes, and constipation. What in Fast Food is addicting? 1. Sugar- Offers the same addictions as in bingening, withdrawal and cravings. Are there any Fast Food restaurants that are 2. Convenience- Mcdonalds reastuarnts are healthy? everywhere in America. Most resturants have a healthy menu but are they really 3. Economy/ Value Meal- People love low healthy? People have to be careful of where to go prices, and Mcdonalds earns billions each year. because when restaurants say they are healthy, it does 4. High Calorie Foods- “Our brains envolved not really mean they are healthy. For example, during a time when food was scarce, so we Mcdonalds offers healthier salads, but those salads became adept at choosing foods that packed have all the ingredients as the regular menu items have. calories” (Gowin). Subway promotes itself as a healthy sandwich place, 5. Speed of Satisfying Hunger- Fast Food hits but its food has a lot of sodium and carbohydrates. All the blood stream quickly,acting like a drug, the sugars dressing, chips and sodas do not make a and causing carvings. For a hit of Fast Food all healthy meal. Cooking a home cooked meal is a lot a person needs to do is wait in a drive thru for healthier. a couple of minutes. 6. Branding- Employees have a script greeting, Recommendations? every menu looks the same, and the sign is Go to websites like, HealthyDiningfinder.com, where everywere inside and out. people can search for the Obesity 7. Memory and food nearest restaurants with healthy “Obesity means having too much body fat. It is different additives(Flavoring an options by zip code. Another from being overweight, which means weighing too much. Preservatives)recommendation is to not go The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat, and/or Researchers gave out to fast food restaurants all body water. Both terms mean that a person's weight is children regular nuggets the time. For people who are greater than what's considered healthy for his or her and Mcdonalds nuggets. healthy, one to two times a The kids picked month at most is okay. For height. Obesity occurs over time when you eat more Mcdonalds chicken people who have health calories than you use. The balance between calories-in nuggets because it problems, they should avoid and calories-out differs for each person. Factors that reminds them of the going to fast food restaurants. might affect your weight include your genetic makeup, happy meal (Gowin). Make a home cooked meal overeating, eating high-fat foods, and not being instead. physically active. Being obese increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and some cancers. If you are obese, losing even 5 to 10 percent of your weight can delay or prevent some of these diseases. For example, that means losing 10 to 20 pounds if you weigh 200 pounds.” (Medline Plus) “Should I eat that?”Spring 2014 “Should I eat that” Spring 2014 Work Cited Gowin Joshua. “7 Things McDonald’s know About Your Brain”. You Illimmated. 16 March 2014. 8 August 2011. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-illuminated/201108/7-things-mcdonald-s-knows-about-your-brain “Fast Food Statistics”. Statistic brain. 16 March 2014. 1 Jan. 2014. http://www.statisticbrain.com/fast-food-\ statistics/ “Will Fast Food Be the death of us?”. Abcnews. 16 March 16, 2014.8 Jan, unknown. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126450 “Obesity”. Medline Plus. 16 March 2014. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/obesity.html “Should I Eat That?” Project, HTHI Fall 2013