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The issue of obesity is discussed in the end of Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, but would be reasonable to start essay with it. Every third child in the USA suffers from the overweight. The obesity has become the national pandemic. The book Fast Food nations discovers the origin of this problem mercilessly together with some other dangerous issues related to the nutrition in America.
The fast food nation
Chapter one of the book is the story about those people, who became the founders of fast-food culture. Most of them were self-made men who knew how important is to have a fast nutritive meal without stopping the work and made their career using this knowledge. The World War II was another indirect factor, which forced the development of fast-food culture.
From the 1970 the number of women working full time constantly increases. The connection between the impossibility to cook at home, the restaurant nutrition and the disadvantages of fast-food cant be neglected. The fast food is so popular because it is in the great demand in the American society. However the dark side of fast food is really horrible.
First of all, fast food nutrition needs a great volume of the half-prepared food, which has to be kept for the indefinite time before it needed. The long keeping is possible under the deep frost, however the taste of this food disappears, and the food becomes tasteless. Thus, to make the fried potato other popular fast-food meal tasty, the producers add the artificial flavors to half-prepared ingredients.
However, the artificial flavors arent the main danger in the fast food. To reach the original taste of the fried potato, MacDonalds Corp uses the mixture of oils, which contains the huge amount of saturated fats. Saturated fats are harmful for the human body and cause overweight.
Another reason of overweight is the soft drinks. Due to the content of sugar it can be called liquid candies, and they are one of the main sources of junk calories. Besides overweight, soft drinks can cause allergic reactions and other disorders.
Thus, the frozen ingredients, artificial flavors, a lot of fat and sugar are the disadvantages of fast-food, which cause the obesity and indigestion. But the fast food is harmful not only for individuals but for the society at all.
On the example of McDonalds chain the author explains some trends in society from the early 1970, which were called as McDonaldization of society. Every eighth American in one or other way was related to work in McDonalds. The power of big corporations including McDonalds is the mark of our times, but the big doesnt equal to good.
McDonalds is one on the biggest buyers of the meat in the country. The author devoted the whole two chapters to the work of slaughterhouses. The absence of sanitary, hard and dangerous work makes the work in slaughterhouses one of the worst in the country. Another question is can the meat from this slaughterhouses be healthy and useful, and the author answer is No
However the whole marketing industry works to convince people of the opposite. Most of he Americans not only believe the fast food is the good system of nutrition, but the USA popularizes the culture if fast food all over the world. The sad conclusion is the most countries of the world soon will face with the same problem as the United States including the obesity of population.
The fast food nation
Chapter one of the book is the story about those people, who became the founders of fast-food culture. Most of them were self-made men who knew how important is to have a fast nutritive meal without stopping the work and made their career using this knowledge. The World War II was another indirect factor, which forced the development of fast-food culture.
From the 1970 the number of women working full time constantly increases. The connection between the impossibility to cook at home, the restaurant nutrition and the disadvantages of fast-food cant be neglected. The fast food is so popular because it is in the great demand in the American society. However the dark side of fast food is really horrible.
First of all, fast food nutrition needs a great volume of the half-prepared food, which has to be kept for the indefinite time before it needed. The long keeping is possible under the deep frost, however the taste of this food disappears, and the food becomes tasteless. Thus, to make the fried potato other popular fast-food meal tasty, the producers add the artificial flavors to half-prepared ingredients.
However, the artificial flavors arent the main danger in the fast food. To reach the original taste of the fried potato, MacDonalds Corp uses the mixture of oils, which contains the huge amount of saturated fats. Saturated fats are harmful for the human body and cause overweight.
Another reason of overweight is the soft drinks. Due to the content of sugar it can be called liquid candies, and they are one of the main sources of junk calories. Besides overweight, soft drinks can cause allergic reactions and other disorders.
Thus, the frozen ingredients, artificial flavors, a lot of fat and sugar are the disadvantages of fast-food, which cause the obesity and indigestion. But the fast food is harmful not only for individuals but for the society at all.
On the example of McDonalds chain the author explains some trends in society from the early 1970, which were called as McDonaldization of society. Every eighth American in one or other way was related to work in McDonalds. The power of big corporations including McDonalds is the mark of our times, but the big doesnt equal to good.
McDonalds is one on the biggest buyers of the meat in the country. The author devoted the whole two chapters to the work of slaughterhouses. The absence of sanitary, hard and dangerous work makes the work in slaughterhouses one of the worst in the country. Another question is can the meat from this slaughterhouses be healthy and useful, and the author answer is No
However the whole marketing industry works to convince people of the opposite. Most of he Americans not only believe the fast food is the good system of nutrition, but the USA popularizes the culture if fast food all over the world. The sad conclusion is the most countries of the world soon will face with the same problem as the United States including the obesity of population.
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