The Influence of Fast Food

Convenient, cheap, fast, and tasty, all these words are people use to describe fast food restaurants. Thus, how come people will stop going to fast food restaurant, and concern about their health. Some people argue that fast food restaurants are a major cause of child obesity, and they should show consumer the complete ingredients of their products, not only the healthy ingredients. 

There are children that grew up as a typical “mid-1980’s latchkey kid,” which means their parents were both working and they have to take care of their own meals. Therefore, some of them chose fast food restaurant for almost every meal, after they became one of those overweight children caused by junk foods. However, the government might control the fast food marketing because there will be more obese children and parents filing lawsuits. I think that fast food companies should display the intact ingredients of their products, and be honest to the consumer, on the other hand I disagree that fast food restaurants are the major cause of children obese. Since everyone has their responsibility to eat healthier, and choose the right restaurant for themselves.

Nowadays, many people get diabetes not from genetic disorder, but acquired from their eating habit. Due to people’s laziness, addiction, economy changing, and the advertising of fast foods, they prefer to go to fast food restaurants rather than nutritious restaurants. For instance, I would like to go to McDonald, Taco Bell, or Kentucky Fried Chicken to have a meal because they can be found in almost every few blocks. Moreover, I don’t have to spend much time on it. There are many good benefits for eating junk foods, however, the only disadvantage is that people will get an unhealthy body, and that might affect to their whole life.

As people saw the advertisement of fast food, they will be attracted by the fast food’s appearance. Every year fast food companies spend amount of money on ads, and use toys to take children’s attention. Also, the companies invent new products to attract consumers, and put the healthy ingredients on the ads. Sometimes I went to the fast food restaurants because of their advertisement were noticeable and they provides healthy foods, such as apples, and yogurt. Still, they give unclear element of their products. For example, McDonald’s salad shows that it has only 45 calories, but accompanies with the thousand-island sauce, which is 260 calories every 50-gram, is not state on the product. Although the fast food companies attempt to produce healthy foods, they still sell high-calories and high-sugar foods. In addition, fast food restaurants supply unlimited soda. Sodas have no nutritious ingredients, they made by bunch of sugar, salt, and chemicals.

Additionally, the government should control the fast food marketing. The industry is destroying the environment all over the world. In fact, they injection chemicals into animals body, and make them grow rapidly to supply the products for consumer. Also, they don’t select the ingredient carefully. The fast food companies only care about money, so they don’t concern about people’s health.