In the movie Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser tries to inform the readers about the danger of eating too much fast food. He asserts that people do not care what they eat as long as they taste good. In my opinion, this is partly true because many people in America cannot stop eating fast food from McDonald’s or other fast food places even if they see themselves getting fatter and fatter each day. Fast food shocked me even more when I watched the movie Super Size Me. The number of people fed by McDonald’s alone just in one day is more than the whole population of Spain. That many people are ruining their health by eating fast food. However, taste is not the only reason that people choose to eat them. Some people do so because fast food is very cheap. They can get a full meal cheaper than anywhere else. Their cheap price obviously comes from the poor quality of the food. I am sure most people have an experience of feeling sick after eating too much hamburgers or fries and in order to make themselves feel better, they drink sodas: clearly a bad repetition of diet. Relying on such food is a huge risk to one’s health. The amount of chemicals, salts and sugars inserted to cook the food exceed the recommended amount that one should intake by a lot. Excess of these would not only cause obesity, but also diabetes, heart diseases. People become lazier and we can often observe them relying on electrical wheel chairs. In order to prevent these, people must take actions. People must start changing their diets by reducing the number times they step into the fast food places. Instead, they must start eating healthier and better quality foods that have the recommended amount of substances even if they are little bit more costly. Another way that could help fix the problems facing the fast food is to inform people more of the dangers followed by eating them. People obviously are not aware enough of the fact that eating too much fast food could lead them to a death.
Monday, January 17, 2011
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