Fast food restaurants are known for being part of a restaurant franchise chain and for their quick service. As the average citizen is in more of a rush to get to work, school, or home, the easy option of stopping at the local Burger King becomes more appealing than a traditional sit down restaurant. With this, the consumption of meals kept warm after being cooked in bulk, compared to meals made at the time of order, also grows. Modern day parents continue to support this idea of purchasing quick, tasty, cheap, and unhealthy food from fast food restaurants for their children on a daily basis. From 1994 to 2014, McDonald’s itself opened about 360 new restaurants in the United States every year (Fast-Food). The increased availability of unhealthy
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Nayga Jr., members of the Department of Agricultural Economics conducted a study, finished in the year 2009, analyzing its effect on various children. In their concluding remarks, they stated, “With respect to the effects of children’s fast food and soft drink consumption on children’s wellbeing, our results suggest a trade-off in the influence of food consumption on childhood obesity and unhappiness since while consumption of fast food and soft drinks is positively associated with childhood obesity, they also tend to make them less unhappy” (Journal). Throughout Chang and Nayga’s findings there was a undeniable relationship between the consumption of fast food and soft drinks along with a child’s obesity. The more fast food consumed on average, the more obese a child would tend to be. Considering the ample supply of fast food restaurants in any city, unhealthy food from these restaurants is easily obtainable by any …show more content…
They focused specifically on the possible incidence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), which is a collection of risk factors that raise the risk of experiencing heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, or other health diseases (What). The research concluded that, “the results of this study indicate that higher intakes of fast food have undesirable effects on the incidence of MetS, hypertriglyceridemia, and abdominal obesity, a finding which requires prioritized health strategies aimed at prevention of cardio-metabolic risk factors in children and adolescents” (PLoS). The group was able to find through testing 424 healthy six to eighteen year old subjects that the more fast food consumed the higher risk of Metabolic Syndrome, hypertriglyceridemia, and
Nayga Jr., members of the Department of Agricultural Economics conducted a study, finished in the year 2009, analyzing its effect on various children. In their concluding remarks, they stated, “With respect to the effects of children’s fast food and soft drink consumption on children’s wellbeing, our results suggest a trade-off in the influence of food consumption on childhood obesity and unhappiness since while consumption of fast food and soft drinks is positively associated with childhood obesity, they also tend to make them less unhappy” (Journal). Throughout Chang and Nayga’s findings there was a undeniable relationship between the consumption of fast food and soft drinks along with a child’s obesity. The more fast food consumed on average, the more obese a child would tend to be. Considering the ample supply of fast food restaurants in any city, unhealthy food from these restaurants is easily obtainable by any …show more content…
They focused specifically on the possible incidence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), which is a collection of risk factors that raise the risk of experiencing heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, or other health diseases (What). The research concluded that, “the results of this study indicate that higher intakes of fast food have undesirable effects on the incidence of MetS, hypertriglyceridemia, and abdominal obesity, a finding which requires prioritized health strategies aimed at prevention of cardio-metabolic risk factors in children and adolescents” (PLoS). The group was able to find through testing 424 healthy six to eighteen year old subjects that the more fast food consumed the higher risk of Metabolic Syndrome, hypertriglyceridemia, and