Effects Of Fast Food In The 1970's

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Beginning of the 1970’s, people were consuming less back then as of today. In the 1970’s we had approximately millions of people who were healthy and eating good than now. A cause for this is that fast food is cheap than buying healthy foods. Many Fast Food companies are changing the sizes of prices due to the people buying food every day. This shows that the portions in the 1970’s seem to be small however, after years the portions expanded. The portions of today are twice bigger that 1970’s. In an article In the Sacramento Bee, It's Portion Distortion that makes America Fat by Shannon Brownlee, “M&M/Mars, for example, has increased the size of candy bars such as Milky Way and Snickers four times since 1970, Starbucks introduced the 20-ounce

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