The Habits Of Fast Food And Fast-Food Adolescents

Fast-food industries may try to “target children in their ads”, but it ultimately comes down to the adults-the parents- choosing to dine at these places and pork up their kids on the high-sugar sodas, salty French fries, and greasy burgers. If they would just take the time to look out the window, they would see the healthy alternatives to fast-food, and how the alternatives are literally right in front of

The obesity epidemic in the U.S. and other developed countries is introducing greater risk for many causes of preventable death (e.g. heart disease, type 2 diabetes) and harming the quality of life for those affected. Many factors contribute to the rising rates of obesity, though some are implicating food-marketing techniques more directly (Miller, 2008). This study is part of a line of research that intends to understand how food advertising and marketing can be altered to make healthy eating decisions easier. One of the main ideas uniting this line of research is that when we are confronted with food, which we need to survive, it triggers primary biological motivations to approach and consume. Several factors about food, however, may

There’s an appalling epidemic in today’s society sweeping across not only the United States, but all across the globe. This horrible epidemic isn’t the bird flu, or any type of sickness, rather obesity. Today, obesity rates are at an all time high in America. This disease, obesity, is being passed down the family both genetically, and by the terrible eating habits developing in the US. Kids growing up in this generation are facing frightening issues such as increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc., the list goes on. Zinczenko proves this in his text Don’t Blame the Eater, when he says, “Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder - Only about 5 percent of childhood causes were obesity-related, or Type 2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institute of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country.” (Zinczenko 463) The sad part about it, is these kids more time than not, are born into these types of situations. There’s no surprise that obesity rates in America are directly correlated with the increasing amount of fast food chains popping up on every street corner. These fast food restaurants are masters of the art of advertising, and are using it as the strongest way of increasing sales. This is very dangerous because not all advertisements are true, despite what the common American might think, and it can be used to sway people’s thoughts

Brown, Rogan Kersh, David S. Ludwig, Robert C. Post, Rebecca M. Puhl, Marlene B. Schwartz and Walter C. Willett, research on government effort to resolve the issue of obesity has shown “profound effects”. For instance, a nationally representative poll, that has 1,326 United States citizens and residents, were carried out where participants were asked to identify the “high prevalence of obesity” (Bronell. Kersh. Post. Puhl. Schwartz. Willett. 2010). Surprisingly, personal behaviours, such as laziness and gluttony has the least amount of votes in contributing to the increasing rate of obesity over the past decade. Most people agreed that the cause lies with food environment. The presentation of junk food on television are negatively impacting the lives of adults and children alike. Where snack commercials are evidently more appealing and have unclear messages regarding the nutrition factor of their products are being legally presented to the consumers. In regard to the ban of junk food advertising, along with the removal of junk food in schools and replacing them with meals with better standard nutritional values, a correlation between the decline in childhood obesity exposure and the improvement on children’s performance and health is

Our society is set up perfectly against our health. Unhealthy food options are more accessible than healthy options. Children are faced with endless fast food options and vending machines full of sugar-sweetened beverages and packaged foods. Portion sizes have increased substantially over the past 30 years. Over the course of 20 years the serving size of fries has gone from 2.4 ounces to 6.9 ounces.3 Families are eating out more frequently and restaurant meals are higher in calorie and fat than home cooked meals. Children are often times

What started as a tasty snack to a consumer and an easy buck for the producer, had evolved into a national epidemic. Not only were American becoming obese, but fast food began to dominate the

While the fast food is really harmful after an excessive amount, fast food chains and their advertisements are often blamed too harshly. Advertising is not the main cause and blame for childhood obesity. Ads simply promote one brand name over another. They do not persuade people to do things they are not already doing (Moerdyk, 2008). They already drink cold drinks, eat food, drive cars, and buy groceries. The advertising tries to get people who already drink cold drinks to try theirs, drive their cars, and buy at their store. “The reason we have so many fat, unhealthy kids who get involved in drugs and all sorts of other bad habits has got little to do with advertising and a lot to do with parents who don't give a darn what programs their kids watch on TV or what movies they go to” (Moerdyk, 2008).

As fast food Industries expand throughout the United States, Americans have chosen to eat unhealthy food saturated in fat. Obesity has become an epidemic in the united states in the 70s impacting the common American family because of the lack of the healthier resources. Fast food company use marketing strategies to target the younger generation by building fast food companies in small towns which destroys any opportunities for the younger generation to eat local unprocessed foods. Obesity is the current issue America is facing and it appears to be growing each day. Many blame fast food who have attracted the public with advertisements containing foods, saturated with chemicals and fats. Propaganda and commercials are the most common advertisements to target the younger

In today’s world most people are already too lazy to make healthy decisions. That’s ultimately why we have fast food so people do not have to think about what we are eating. Fast food chains take advantage of our laziness after a long day at work or a stressful day of school. “Consumers spend more than half their food dollars outside of the

It is impossible to escape the endless number of fast-food advertisements, if one lives in the modern world. One might come across a minimum of three to five advertisements while walking on the street; ads plastered on every billboard, every TV commercial, every poster and flyer. There is no wonder why people are becoming fatter. Everywhere people look, they see food. People in this century have food constantly being pushed towards them all day and night.

The age old saying, “You are what you eat” still rings true today. Fresh fruit and vegetables have been replaced by french-fries and hamburgers. Children today do not know how to eat healthy. We, as a nation, spend hours and hours bombarding children with fast food commercials, sugary cereal commercials and cavity causing drink commercials. We than spend a fraction of that time telling kids these things are healthy only in moderation.

Let's be clear, unhealthy food is everywhere and there is no escaping the fact that temptation are difficult to overcome because the society has chosen this brand of food than something healthier. As Murray has noted, “ The strips of fast food restaurants along America's roadways, the barrage of burger advertising or television and the rows of candies at the checkout counter of any given convenience store” (Super sized Americans). There are thousands of advertisements that sponsor food industries. One of them is not going to change anything, maybe just the outlook for them. This human attracter brings families by manipulating the vulnerable to come and eat their food. Murray states “Particularly vulnerable to the problem are American children: soda companies and fastfood outlets increasingly Ink contracts with schools” (Super Size Americans). A restaurant can end their business in that area but everywhere you go will be a different fast food place. An addiction occurs when someone when someone gets hooked to a specific product and is difficult to let go. These corporations have manipulated generations by picking their food with nice colorful billboards and many other ways, leading obesity. According to Impact of food advertising, “United States Disease control and prevention, research has found strong associations between increases in advertising for not nutrients foods and rates of childhood obesity”. These restaurants are always going to have an advertisement. As much as they put healthy foods in their menu such as salads, their mostly sponsoring their hamburgers, chickens and even desserts. We live in a world where people cannot think for themselves because they come and give good deals. Dieting is difficult when all you see is this monstrous food

Advertisements, opposed to promoting unhealthy foods, should do the opposite and make health-awareness-based commercials, an aspect that may scare some into not eating unhealthy as often, if at all. There will certainly be people will not be affected by the changes and continue to follow through with their usual habits, but there will be others who may end up moving to the other side. Obesity in the U.S. has increased substantially over time; according to the American Psychological Association, the rate has tripled within the last quarter century, and statistics continue to worsen regarding the matter ("The Impact of Food Advertising”). If changes are not made, then diabetes and other health-related diseases will eventually dominate the country.

More than one-third of the U.S adults and children are obese or overweight due to high calorie intake from unhealthy diets and fast food products. High calorie intake is the hefty amount of more calories that you should consume in a days time. Obesity is the condition of being grossly fat or overweight. As well as an imbalance of the amount of energy that is taken in from drinking and eating and energy spent on metabolism and physical activity. If more people would worry about their health, then there would be less obesity and overweight rates in the U.S and foreign countries. Fast foods are made tasty, “stable”, and cheap. They are made to have a long shelf life. They also are rigged with a lot of trans fatty acids and oils. According to a new study, fast food is the cause of an obesity epidemic. Cheap food has a stronger link hold to obesity. Many people settle for less when it comes to fast food, only because it means they don’t have to put much effort into cooking a home healthy meal, but what they do not consider is the disadvantages that a fast food diet has in store for them.

Teenagers are taken advantage of on a daily base in the food industry emotionally unstable,un self representable and seek comfort in the easiest cheapest food. Carey quotes, “Fast food commercials greatly influence teens’ eating habits, since food is the most advertised item on television”, this makes a bigger impact on teens since they seek for comfort on food which then ties on to health risks. Teens tend to seek comfort in food and believe that the more fast food they it the better it would be but the effect is the total