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    In the food industry today, junk food is fast, easy, and cheap to get, while healthy foods are more expensive and not nearly everyone has the ability to afford it. Americans are becoming obese and not enough people put enough effort into changing this for the future. It would be easy to just blame the fact that there is a McDonald’s around every corner, but it truly comes down to each individual buyer who doesn’t know how to make a stop in this. A lot of people cannot support their families with

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    changes in lunch menus in recent years. A complete overhaul of school meals, starting with the essential banishment of junk food sold by the schools and introduction of low calorie, healthy comestibles. There has been plenty of discussion about the drastic changes and why some people aren’t exactly satisfied with them. Students may choose to not buy the healthy food, prefering to bring food from home where they can more freely choose what they want. Some districts have experienced losses in revenue since

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    Fast food eateries are one of the main, if not the primary, reason behind obesity in the United States. Fast food, what many people for the most part view as a speedy approach to get some nourishment, is really killing a large number of individuals than you may suspect. In this current time, nearly everybody realizes that fast food isn 't especially the best thing for you to eat, yet that won 't verge on preventing us from eating it. Diverse things play a component with respect to why we as a whole

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    Junk Food Essay For Kids

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    Food is a necessary part of life. Animals, plants and other organisms take in food substances and process the nutrients within their bodies. Without food humans lose energy, concentration, and control of their bodies. While plants don’t have many options when it comes to food, humans have so many options that it is sometimes hard to make good healthy decisions when it comes to nutrition. In order to receive proper nutrition, it is important for children to receive three healthy and balanced meals

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    and heart disease. The documentary also mentions osteoporosis. The main focus is on how animal based food (such as meat, dairy, etc.) can increase an individual’s risk for all the concerns above. The director makes a case of how around the world people will all say that animal meat is needed to supply our bodies with adequate protein and milk is needed to supply calcium. Although getting these food components from animals tends to increase the risk of health problems considerably when compared to

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    “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” Mark Bittman wrote the article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” which was published in The New York Times in late September 2011. Bittman argues that junk food is not healthy nor cheaper to eat than home cooked meals. The author wrote this article in response to the increase of obesity in 2011. This article can be divided into six sections. In the introduction the author discusses weather or not it is cheaper to buy junk food compared to buying it from the grocery store

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    Junk Food Speech Essay

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    Bittman states, “Livestock is one of the biggest corporates in land degradation such as air and water pollution, water shortages, and losses of bio diversity.” The main issue of this world is that the over production and over consumption of meat and junk food argues that we need the nutrients, but on average, we eat twice as much protein compared to the scientist suggested amount of half a pound of meat per week. The theme that is prevalent throughout the speech is Bittman getting his point accrues in

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    Compare and Contrast Processed and junk foods have come to be the staple in American diets, and the result has been a nationwide epidemic of obesity-related health issues. In comparison “What You Eat Is Your Business” by Radley Balko and “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, both authors are discussing their opinions on the matter of obesity in America society. Both writers do have a very different viewpoint, and yet they provide some pretty valid arguments to the issue. Balko begins by introducing

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    what foods were good or what foods were bad. I would just eat when I was hungry, however even though sometimes it would go beyond the stage of just being hungry at the time. Seeing my mother go grocery shopping, it never accord to me that she wrote down products that were needed, and even getting items that were not on the list. Being the child, I thought everything she bought was necessary and alright. Over the years, as I got older I was educated on what foods were unhealthy and the foods that

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    the importance of healthy food and avoiding junk food. 2. Explain how you will use one or more of the following techniques to persuade your audience. • Ethos (rapport/credibility): I would like to tell one of my friends story. That makes it impossible for me to eat the junk food. Food poisoning mainly caused from contaminated meat and products. • Pathos (emotions): If we don’t move soon, were all going to suffer! Emphasizing how some people really work hard, and that food should not be restrict to

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