i need a good thesis for a cause/effect essay on fast food and junk?

Question

and any other help i guess.... 10 points to the most helpful<3

Answer 1

1. Is fast food addictive?
People may become addicted to the sugar and fat in fast food, much like a person can become addicted to a drug, which may help explain the rising rates of obesity in the United States.

Researchers determined that some animals, and therefore some humans, could become dependent on sweet food. In their study, rats fed a diet containing 25 percent sugar became anxious when the sugar was removed--displaying symptoms similar to people going through drug withdrawals, such as chattering teeth and the shakes.

In the study, a link was found between opioids, or the brain’s 'pleasure chemicals,' and a craving for sweet, salty and fatty foods. It is thought that high-fat foods stimulate the opioids, as when researchers stimulated rats’ brains with a synthetic version of the natural opioid enkephalin, the rats ate up to six times their normal intake of fat.

Further, long lasting changes in rats' brain chemistry, similar to those caused by morphine or heroin use, were also noted.

According to researchers, this means that even simple exposure to pleasurable foods is enough to change gene expression, which suggests an addiction to the food.

However, other researchers have disputed the addiction theory, peak and drop in blood sugar caused by eating fast food creates a desire for more, but is not necessarily an addiction.

2. Your Children Watch More Fast Food Ads on TV, Even On PBS, Than You Think

A look at the numbers this researcher collected, based randomly selected four-hour morning programming blocks on PBS, Disney and Nickelodeon aimed specifically at toddlers and preschoolers, proved how wrong she was...

The three networks aired 130 food-related ads, or 1.3 commercials during each half-hour programming block.
More than half of those food commercials were specifically geared toward kids, and most were for fast-food chains (50) and sweetened cereals (18).
Fast food chains -- think McDonald's -- accounted for an amazing 82 percent of the advertising/sponsor messages on PBS and 36 percent on the Disney Channel.
No wonder, the FCC announced plans to study the link between food ads, the addictive viewing habits of American kids and childhood obesity.

Answer 2

Your opening isn't that bad, really. It catches the reader's attention, which is what it's supposed to do. You could also say: Fast food is America's dirty little secret. Well, perhaps it isn't much of a secret seeing that one out of every three Americans is over weight. Even young children know who Ronald McDonald is, the same can be said for the Burger King. What they don't know is that this fast food will possibly make the visits to the doctor more frequent. I don't know, that's what I could come up with in the spur of the moment. Then you could go into the cause and effect formula and say what makes these children (and adults) addicted to fast food and what the harsh effects are. Eh, I'm not the best writer....

Answer 3

Do you have a hypothesis? Prove it or disprove it. It's a win-win either way. Maybe something politcally incorrect such as:
Denying fast food (or junk food) to children causes them to be gluttons for it when they can make their own choice. Just choose junk or fast food and make sure you narrow it down enough to make sense.
Or how about, if there was no fast food available, people would substitue boxed junk from the grocery on those rushed nights or put their kids to bed unfed. (obviously this needs work and polish, but it's an idea)

Answer 4

Cheap food = big medical bills.

Chemical engineers have created a way to meet the demand of the masses.

Organic is just something that isn't completely grown in a lab but a lot of it isn't that much better for you.

Answer 5

Here are a few things I found:

http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/causeeffect/sharoncause.html

http://members.tripod.com/deena118/Effects%20of%20fast%20food.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0812-25.htm

http://www.healthyeatingclub.com/bookstore/foodqa/ch2/2-8.htm

Hope that helped you out a little!

Answer 6

it can make you fat and cause health problems