Essay On Fast Food

Do you think our country would be healthier if we were able to spend less money on good foods and more on junk food? Would our citizens have a lower chance of being obese if we had drive through fruit stands that served salads on the dollar menu rather than burgers and fries? In the last hundred years alone, our world has invested more money into greasy fast foods than they do in healthy and organic farm foods. Not only has it increased the chance of becoming obese, but unhealthy diets have increased diseases and deaths due to being overweight. If our country took the time to make healthy food cost less and made it easier to access or buy, the people would begin to make healthier food choices for themselves and their families, thus, saving
Convince of this food is the top reason why people begin to over eat, gain so much weight, and suck themselves into a bad, unhealthy diet. Rarely do you see a fruit salad on a fast food menu, and if there are regular salads, they most likely come with fatty dressings and add-ins that turn a green salad into another unhealthy meal. Fast food restaurants have skyrocketed in the United States over the last 20-50 years. They’re in almost every town, on pretty much every other block and depending on the size of the city, there can be two to three of them in that area alone! Convenient? Of course. Good for our citizens and their children? Of course not. But to many Americans, they don’t care. It’s cheap, it tastes good and it’s only a block away. Compared to your local grocery store, I’d say there are probably five or six fast food places for every one store. Meaning five times more people would prefer to stay in their car and be handed food through a window, rather than walk into the produce isle of a store to find a bag of apples or