Persuasive Speech On Fast Food

If you are like me you are probably totally sick of dieting because every time you stop the weight comes flooding back on and you just cant stop it!

The rates of obesity and food related diseases in America continue to rise. Such as, children becoming overweight due to a constant fast food diet or get diabetes due to a diet consisting of too much sugar. In school, meals are provided for students but the food that is served is less than healthy. Most of the food served is processed and frozen food. While schools do provide meals for students, the food is unhealthy for them; therefore, we must change the food that the school serves.

Do you know what it means to be healthy? What was the last thing YOU ate? Do you realize that these things are bad for you? I get it eating healthy can be a problem for some people even though you may just be that person that chooses not to eat healthy it can still be a struggle. Everyone and their family enjoy eating things such as (Cakes,Pies,Ice Cream,Cookies,etc.) so why would you choose to eat healthy foods over that? And in this essay I will be explaining many different reasons as to why many people need to cut down on the junky foods and to start eating healthy.

Over 45 million people have gone to eat at various Fast Food restaurants such as Burger King and McDonalds. Americans have depended on Fast Food restaurants for around 6 decades, whenever they want something quick and delicious to eat. According to the Centers for Disease Control, “one in five American adults [are] obese or classified as obese; while thirty percent of children in the U.S. are suffering from obesity”. This is astounding due to the fact that many ingredients in fast food such as Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Nitrate, and High Fructose Corn Syrup have been shown by studies to cause diabetes, cancer, and many other diseases. The Fast Food Industry, because of the aforementioned problems with obesity and diseases along with how the Fast

With the increasing academic and extracurricular expectations placed on high-school students, we pack our schedules tightly with rigorous courses, extracurricular activities, and voluntary work. We believe that our future and success are dependent on the work we do as students, and we sacrifice our health towards that goal. Instead of feeding on the nutrition of healthy meals, we turn to fast-food that is convenient and with rising options minutes away from school. However, the rising rates of obesity in our youth urge active action to be taken to change this norm of our teens consuming fast-food. [As a fellow high-school student, I expose this problem and advocate to improve the eating habits of high-school students.]

Consuming unhealthy fast food has changed the dietary habits of many people. Fats, sugars, and carbohydrates are eaten more often in fast food consumers (Holguin 1). The change is due to the types of food served at the restaurants. Deep-fried, breaded, creamy, and crispy are all words that automatically describe a food that can be unhealthy (Paul 3). To try and change the habits people have come accustomed to, they would like to know what is actually in the food. However, preservatives and items like that are always being added to the foods that go unexplained or

I adore Gwyneth Paltrow. But much like my love of blue cheese and the Macarena, it's a devotion my friends don't necessarily understand. "Gwyneth Paltrow—isn't that the one who tells people to sustain themselves on algae and sprouts and to clean their vaginas with steam?" they often ask.

You never know what your putting in your body. Each day you go out to eat, your consuming processed meat. So the real question is " should restaurants be allowed to sell genetically modified "chicken" under the name chicken? " Now your probably not on my side yet but once you hear what they feed their chickens, what fast food places sell it, what it does to your body and what GMOs are. Trust me you will be on my side.

Imagine driving home late after a long day at work, too exhausted to cook. But McDonald's is open 24 hours, so you get a late night bite in. But is it healthy? The city council don’t think so and has voted to ban fast food in Aberdeen, Washington. That means instead of being lazy and getting a meal that's unhealthy you can take your time and make a meal that is healthier at home.

All across the world, people are eating themselves alive by feeding their bodies disgusting fast foods. According to youngwomenshealth.org, processed fast foods are filled with artificial sweeteners, added fats, and other harmful chemicals (Center). These synthetic additives can cause serious health issues such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. Many individuals would rather eat something that could potentially be toxic to their health instead of eating something that is nutritious. People have to stop consuming fast foods because of the artificial ingredients that are added, the negative effects on a persons health, and the availability to healthier food options.

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During the past few decades, fast food consumption in the United States has increased dramatically. Fast food consumption has doubled since the 1970’s. And with fast- food restaurants everywhere, from airports to college campuses, Americans are wasting more on these foods than in electronics, higher education, and new cars all together. Due to fast- food consumption, people who consume these foods are more likely to have medical problems. In addition, consumers of fast- food are unaware that most of the food they eat contain mysterious preservatives. Furthermore, most of the consumers are also unaware of the lack of food safety and the low food quality. All this factors make us ask whether or not fast-food should be banned?.

The dominating fast-food industry is the most prominent in America where there seems to be a restaurant on every block. The industry preys on Americans with their easily available and cheap food that leads to the prevalence of obesity and other health issues. People choose to give the industry their money in an effort to save money compared to buying healthier choices that cost more than the fast food. Society has moved to the mentally where we forgive and are more accepting of unhealthy eating and its consequences. Only when society, including the government, tackles uncaring attitude of the consequences of unhealthy eating can we progress to a society who makes more health conscious. The food industry and government can finds ways to make the healthier options more affordable to people who are on budgets and change the way people discuss and approach the issue of unhealthy eating and the health consequences.

Would you like to cut years off your life for just a dollar more? This is the question fast food companies should be asking as we line up out their doors and pile up in their double drive thru lanes. This is also the question we the consumer need to be asking ourselves everytime we choose to swing into that ever so convenient drive thru.Currently one and four americans are living with diabetes and even more are living with diabetes and they don't even know in a recent study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If that is not alarming enough to you one in four americans also die from heart complications in a 2017 survey also released by the CDC. Today I would like discuss a growing issue, ourselves. Along with

b. Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant (Fast food facts).