The United States is known all around the world as a country of the fast food. With the immense number of various fast food restaurants, the United States can be called the fast food nation. Peculiar is that the industry is still growing. As some of the conducted studies indicate, people in the United States spend more on consuming fast food rather than on higher education. Fast food has become a saving belt for many people at the age of high life pace and is quite convenient considering the comparable low cost and little time to be prepared and served. Even though the fast food introduces benefits for modern people, fast food consumption is also usually associated with a range of health problems, including the increased heart and blood vessel
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According to his idea, “The real price never appears on the menu” (Schlosser 9). By stating so, the author wants to draw the attention of the audience to the fact that fast food is exposing a negative impact on the health of the people, and there is the increased possibility of consuming products of lower quality. To a large extent, the negative impact of fast food consumption is associated with the low quality of the meat used for preparation. It is strongly connected to the conditions under which the animals are held and the food they receive. Very often the farms use drugs and antibiotics to make the animals fatten up faster. As was mentioned in a report regarding the use of antibiotics on the farms, “When livestock producers administer antibiotics routinely to their flocks and herds, bacteria can develop resistance”, and this means that later antibiotics might not work when their aid is necessary (Tinker, 2015). respectively, consuming fast food, people put themselves at the potential risk of inability to combat the diseases. The problem connected with the constituents of fast food was summarized by Schlosser who wrote that eating a hamburger might make a person ill since “There is shit in the meat” (Schlosser 197). With respect to the products from which fast food tends to be prepared, there is an increased risk of being …show more content…
Referring to the diets, fast food has negative impacts on the health as far as it often displaces nutrient dense foods, including the whole grains, vegetables, and fruits (The Dangers of Eating Fast Food). Speaking of fast food, it creates risk in terms of portion size, energy density, industrially produced trans fat and fat content in fast-food menus (Stender, Dyerberg, & Astrup, 2007). All of the constituents tend to negatively impact the well-being of a person in the long perspective. This results in the decreased health of a person and poses the risk of developing even more serious
According to his idea, “The real price never appears on the menu” (Schlosser 9). By stating so, the author wants to draw the attention of the audience to the fact that fast food is exposing a negative impact on the health of the people, and there is the increased possibility of consuming products of lower quality. To a large extent, the negative impact of fast food consumption is associated with the low quality of the meat used for preparation. It is strongly connected to the conditions under which the animals are held and the food they receive. Very often the farms use drugs and antibiotics to make the animals fatten up faster. As was mentioned in a report regarding the use of antibiotics on the farms, “When livestock producers administer antibiotics routinely to their flocks and herds, bacteria can develop resistance”, and this means that later antibiotics might not work when their aid is necessary (Tinker, 2015). respectively, consuming fast food, people put themselves at the potential risk of inability to combat the diseases. The problem connected with the constituents of fast food was summarized by Schlosser who wrote that eating a hamburger might make a person ill since “There is shit in the meat” (Schlosser 197). With respect to the products from which fast food tends to be prepared, there is an increased risk of being …show more content…
Referring to the diets, fast food has negative impacts on the health as far as it often displaces nutrient dense foods, including the whole grains, vegetables, and fruits (The Dangers of Eating Fast Food). Speaking of fast food, it creates risk in terms of portion size, energy density, industrially produced trans fat and fat content in fast-food menus (Stender, Dyerberg, & Astrup, 2007). All of the constituents tend to negatively impact the well-being of a person in the long perspective. This results in the decreased health of a person and poses the risk of developing even more serious