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It is no secret that the United States is currently experiencing a crisis. This is not a crisis that has arisen from foreign nations intending us harm; it is an issue that holds its origins on domestic soil. Every day millions of American people, and others worldwide, are slowly killing themselves with the world 's slowest acting poison. That poison is junk food. Everyone knows that it is bad for them, unfortunately this has done little to stop the issue. The real roots of the problem can be…

“Whoever snuck the s in “fast food” was a clever little bastard.” ~Unknown. 68.5% of adults are overweight and obese, (“Obesity in the US”) 31.8% of children are overweight or obese (“Obesity in the US”). After attempting a two week challenge of not eating fast food I soon realized that I was only destined to fail. Eating fast food all the time can not only take a toll on your physical health but also your mental health as well. Fast food affects people psychology by the symbols they use that…

She walked into the interrogation room, upstairs in Safeway, in the middle of one of Crystal’s whoppers. Flashing Crystal the stop sign hand, she ordered Haley to spill the beans… right now. Deb said she could see the need to fess up on her face, and she did, all of it. She’d been lying to us about the makeup, jewelry and random stuff, saying they…

It was a sweltering day in the summer of 2009. The dawn of the day started like any other day, with the rising sun and the bright blue sky; however, it ended like no other day. I woke up to the sounds of chatter that came from downstairs. It was noisier than usual because we had family from California and Canada over at our house. This happened due to the fact that our two-story house had unoccupied rooms, but there was an influx of people, so my brother and I had to surrender the room that we…

When it comes to the food industry and their brands, people know them mainly by their logos. These logos serve as a cover-up for the companies. Not many people are exposed to what is going on behind the scenes and what the real and true story is behind all of the food products that they consume. People have the right to know what exactly it is that they are consuming. Not only the quality of food questioned, but the injustice with the employees has become more and more prevalent. The…

Rogers syntactical pattern scheme is seen in her use of parenthesis, which she uses to add additional examples to aid her description of arguments in her essay. For example when discussing units that house garbage she describes how one, “Virginia whopper has disposal capacity equivalent to the length of one thousand football fields.” Placing this information inside a closed set of parenthesis allows Roger to corroborate her report of disposal practices and infrastructure. In addition to a…

The Dangerous Side of Fast Food One out of four people eat some type of fast food every single day (Schlosser). Many families tend to choose this option due to their lack of time or money. Other people choose fast food because it satisfies their cravings. Fast food restaurants are found in just about every town across America. In the United States alone, there are over 600,000 fast food restaurants. The restaurants in the United States had combined food and drink sales of over 740 billion…

There have been many misconceptions regarding what obesity is and how you get or become obese. This is because many people may not know what obesity really is. Just to clear it up, Merriam-Webster defines obesity “a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body”. This is basically saying that if you have accumulated more than the recommended amount of body fat, you are overweight. More than 68.8% of the American population is obese. Of that, about 22.9% are…

best. I have no problem consuming carbs. Carbs are always the most delicious like the pepperoni pizza I ate, or the Coca-Cola I washed it down with. I also have total fat covered, which isn’t that hard. The foods that contributed the most are the whopper from burger king which I figure it would. Also the pepperoni pizza contributes again. Last but no least I have cholesterol covered. The omelet that I ate on 09/23/14 had the…

Is it commonly assumed that fast food is bad for your health, addictive and causes obesity? Junk food is any food that has little or no nutritional value with the least bit of preparation otherwise known as empty calories. The fast food industry is always been in the news and has been targeted for serving below human standard food just to fill their pockets and make no alterations to their food recipes to make it much healthier for the individual. Bottom line is that Fast food is to blame for…