Is fast foods are bad for you?

Question

I just want to know, which state have the highest over weight population cause from Fast Food Restaurants in the United States?. the most 100% sure.
a. IL
b. FL
c. Pensylvania
d. other states
Is President Bush could do something about it?

Answer 1

Your lack of grammar skills makes it painful to read your question. Sure, eating too much of anything is bad for you. But the last thing we need is a nanny-state telling people that they don't have the right to be fat and unhealthy.

As for the myth that such people cost us more...that is pure hogwash. Unhealthy people tend not to go to the doctor plus they die young. Every study ever done on the subject has proven that they actually SAVE us on the cost of healthcare. What really drives up the cost is the fact that people are living longer than ever plus they demand the latest technology to treat whatever ails them. (Again, people who choose an unhealthy lifestyle tend not to be in those groups.)

The only "bad" thing about fast food is that it tends to be high in calories...thus it is easy to get too many calories. However, if one were to eat only fast food but limited the total number of calories and otherwise lived a healthy life, then guess what? You'd be healthy!!

It's not so much what you eat, but rather how much you eat...so long as you get a balance of nutrients. (Which you will probably still get even from fast food.) Sure, saturated fats can cause problems, but your body turns everything into sugar anyway. Every ingredient in chocolate cake, on its own and in moderation, is not considered to be bad for you. But, man, combine it into cake form and suddenly it's junk food that's going to rot your teeth and turn you into a fat lazy slob. PURE HOGWASH!!!

Oops, rant off.

Answer 2

I think that every state has a problem with fast foods and obesity. Eating fast foods in a choice. The president has the choice to go to a fast food restuarant just like you and me. There is absolutely nothing the president on the united states could possibly do. If he did happen to implement a plan against fast food restuarants, the ecomony in that area of fast foods would quickly decline. People would be out of jobs and so forth. Like I said you have the choice to eat a greasy hamburger or eat more healthy foods. Its all about choices and how well you choose to make those healthy choices.

Answer 3

Read the truth in Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.

You won't want to eat fast food any more.

Added hormones, chemicals of all types (the average American was already "unfit for human consumption" twenty years ago, and corpses don't rot quickly anymore because of all the preservatives), animal faeces and nerve/brain tissue in meat...

Why do you think the US has such a low life expectancy with the world's highest living standards, compared with, say, Japan? And why is Britain next lowest among developed nations as opposed to, say, France? Fast food.

Answer 4

Fast food places are not much worse than any other. Its what you order when you go there that makes the difference. Eat a grilled chicken sandwich(or two) instead of the double-triple cheeseburger. Eat a salad of some sort with some chili instead of a deep-fried fish sandwich with cheese and tarter sauce with fries. Drink water or unsweetened iced tea instead of a mountain dew. If you have to eat burgers, tell them to leave off the cheese-that'll lower the fat content on the burger. Fast food, diners, or cookin' at home-eat LEAN meat and chicken(not fried), baked or broiled fish, veggies, potatoes(not smothered in butter), --low fat, low saturated fat-you're selection of the healthy stuff might be a little limited at a fast food place, but you can still eat relatively healthy if you want to.

Answer 5

Well I don't know if it's from fast food strictly, but Houston is considered the "fattest city" w/ the most obese people, and before it was #1 was rivaling for many years w/ Los Angeles. So D, I would say. And no I don't think the president could do something about it, he can't outlaw fast food and tell people what they can and can't eat.

Answer 6

Every state and every country has a problem with fastfood
Because of its convenience, fast food is popular and commercially successful in most modern societies, but it is often criticized for having the following shortcomings, among others:

Many popular fast-food menu items are unhealthy, and excessive consumption can lead to obesity.
Exploitative advertising and marketing are used, especially directed at children (which can have an adverse effect on their eating habits and health).
It causes environmental damage through excessive packaging and clearing forests for animal rearing.
It reduces the diversity of local cuisines.
It survives on a low-wage, low-benefit employment model, promoting exploitative labor practices throughout the food and food service industry
Its franchising scheme (royalties).
Its often lower quality versus sit-down restaurants.
The fast-food industry is a popular target for critics, from would-be populists like José Bové (whose destruction of a McDonald's in France made him a folk hero to some) to vegetarian activist groups such as PETA.

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socio-economic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses (like the McDonald brothers' burger joint) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing and labor markets in the late twentieth century. While the innovations of the fast food industry gave Americans more and cheaper dining options, it has come at the price of destroying the environment, economy and small-town communities of rural America while shielding consumers from the real costs of their convenient meal, both in terms of health and the broader impact of large-scale food production and processing on workers, animals and land.

Schlosser's critics[8] respond that fast food companies merely provide something consumers want and that the economies of scale developed by the industry have had a net positive effect on the American and global economy. Defenders of fast food companies point out that they provide entry-level jobs to people with few skills who might otherwise be unemployed and that individual consumers should be responsible for their eating choices, not business. They say that Schlosser and other critics blame fast food companies for social problems that are not of their making

Answer 7

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Answer 8

D. Other states - Texas is the fattest state and I think San Antonio is one of the fattest cities

Bush has bigger fish to fry and larger problems. It is up to people to take care of themselves. It is time for people to be responsible for their actions.

Answer 9

B. IL
I don't think president Bush couldn't care about Health problem

Answer 10

according to "supersize me" I think it is Texas, but go check out that documentary, it shows on MSNBC every so often..