Junk food

Can Junk food kill you? Thats been a question that has been going through my mind ever since I was a kid. Can you get fat from junk food? What happens if you eat junk food everyday? Are junk food harmful? Is questions I would ask my mom and I would always get the same answer, “Junk food is bad for you. Just do not eat it.” says my mother. What is so bad about junk food that I can not have any. My mom would limit the amount of chips, cookies, ice-cream, candies, and many more that I would eat.…

Americans Doubles," by Tracie McMillan and, "Is Junk Food Really Cheaper," by Mark Bittman we perceive how the food industry brings down lower class. The high society has more advantageous nourishments accessible to them due to their economic situation. In the article "Gap in Diet Quality," the author asserts that "the eating methodologies of low-pay Americans have declined in the previous decade". Then again wealthier individuals have access to better quality food. This claim is genuine due to…

Junk food needs no introduction. In today’s day and age, we all know what it is and most of us enjoy junk food. Junk food is the most popular type of food because its instantly gratifying to one’s taste buds and its relatively cheap. We begin feasting on junk food at an early age in America and most of us don’t realize the harm we are doing to our bodies until it’s too late. Americans should try their best to eliminate fast food from their diets because it can cause an array of expensive health…

In this article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” Mark Bittman discusses how people think that fast food is cheaper than home cooked meals. Bittman purpose of this paper is to persuade people to stop buying fast food every so often and consider cooking home cooked meals. In this article, people who feel that fast food is cheaper and people who feel that they are “too busy” to prepare home cooked meals are the anticipated audience. During the entire article Bittman uses different types of rhetorical…

kids and adults be eating junk food everyday? Kids and adults should not be eating junk food everyday because it can affect their health and kids and adults can get sick by eating to much junk food. By eating the same thing over and over, you might be in a coma for eating to fast with the food, but every child and adult should eat junk food either lunch or dinner. “Weight gain is one of the side effects that come from eating to much junk food. This occurs because fast food tends to contain many…

innutritious thing Americans consume, junk food is also a problem. But what is junk food? Junk food is defined as “food that has low nutritional value, typically produced in the form of packaged snacks needs little or no preparation” (Google). Junk food consumption is mainly based on convenience and cost. If healthy food was less expensive and/or had more federal tax grants, Americans might eat less junk food, in my opinion. Which leads to the main point: Unhealthy food should not be taxed…

The article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” was written by Mark Bittman and published in the New York Times in late September of 2011. Bittman argues that people’s assumptions about fast food’s cheapness, high-calorie content and convenience are false. Bittman wrote this article to educate and recommend to people that a change is necessary in their food choices to improve their health. The article can be divided into five sections. Bittman opened the article with detailed explanation of the…

“The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000” (Food, Inc). This really is true, because, before fast food and processed canned foods, people used to have to hunt for their food. Now, we have 24-hour fast food restaurants, and we have over 47,000 food products to chose from in our supermarkets. Since 1980, the percentage of obese children has gone from 5.8% to 17.5% (Obesity Rates 1). 38% of adults in our nation are considered obese, but 33% of the people who…

“Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?”: A Rhetorical Analysis. The purpose of the article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” by Mark Bittman, is to persuade us that it costs just as much to eat out as it does to cook. The article is speaking out to many of the American families they eat out frequently. The article speaks about how we use many invalid excuses as to why it’s cheaper to eat junk food, what it costs to make a meal that can feed a family, and why we find “hyperprcocessed” food so addictive. The…

In John Metallo’s piece, “Banning Junk Food in Schools Is Not Effective”, he discusses the reasons why the sale of junk food should not be prohibited in schools. He believes that the sale of junk food should not be ban in schools because a child’s eating habit is developed at home, not at school. Therefore, it is the parent’s responsibility in the decision that their child makes on what to eat at school. He furthers adds on that a lot of the junk food in schools are actually brought in and that…