by Nick Todd

Created on: June 01, 2009

We all know that the lower class of people are the ones who primarily eat out at fast food restaurants most often. The cost is diffidently a big part of the sacrifice you make when eating at a Burger King or McDonalds. However, more than just financially, there is another cost you and your family take when you eat too often at a fast food resturant. This cost, is health. When you buy your kid that 'Happymeal' at Mcdonalds, you will see that you are giving him or her 520 calories-for the kids meal! Buy a 'happy meal' with a cheeseburger, and you have given your child 700 calories. So not only have you spent $3 for a meal for one kid, but you have just given your child 500-700calories. Eating too much fast food has caused Liver damage as well as heart damage. Fast food is the number one cause of obesity in America. Between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese. Though it may be okay to every once in a while purchase fast food, too much of it can indeed become addicting. Though politically incorrect, it is known that employers hire people more attractive. It is also known of course, that when looking for a boyfriend/girlfriend, one will want a partner who not only looks good, but is smart with their money and their health. By eating a Big Mac and fries, the body consumes almost twice as many calories as you would if you ate the same weight of pasta and salad. Fast Food restaurants feed the obesity epidemic by getting people to eat many more calories than they need through persistent advertising. Another fact is that fast food may speed up people's risk of clogged arteries that can lead to heart attacks. Researchers at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco have demonstrated that a certain type of fat, called oxidized fat, can accelerate the buildup of plaque in arteries. And many types of fast food such as hamburgers, pizza and French fries are loaded with oxidized fat. Our bodies require fiber and more healthful types of fats. The conclusion is we are all being fooled into eating too much food. We need to not go and protest and whine about how unhealth it is. What we need to do, is cook up that dusty pasta in the pantry. Cook up hamburgers; at home! Have an 'old-fashioned' meal where the family sits around the table and talks to one and other. This would not only be physically health, but emotionally and spiritually health to build a firm foundation not based on the ways of 'Ronald McDonald', but on the ways of our parents or grandparents where we talked together and every so often went out to get the Burger King.

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