| Drive-up restaurants, milkshakes, fries, and | | | | have never changed a bit; a constancy that is so |
| time-honored burgers and dripping Coney Island, | | | | hard to find in the constantly changing society. |
| that's what makes the American cuisine since the | | | | Additionally, the fast-paced lifestyle of the current |
| 1950s. This has been America's characteristic | | | | generation only leaves fast food in the high-ladder |
| manner of preparing food, fast food, the epitome | | | | for convenience. Preparing everything with |
| of the American life. Yet should tradition hinder | | | | minimum fuss has just become so valuable. You |
| improvement? | | | | can also add the joy of indulgence. However, |
| When it comes to health, the answer should be a | | | | what about the cons? |
| big NO. When America is at risk of the fast food | | | | Primary is over-indulgence. Not only is fast food |
| and obesity outbreak, the consumer should think | | | | expensive and isolating; it is also over-eating |
| twice before he takes a huge gulp of his sweet | | | | tolerant. It's true that it is sometimes a wonderful |
| soda. | | | | thing to be able to overcome your guilt to have |
| Fast food and obesity has been a major link that | | | | yourself a treat, yet can you take the guilt of |
| makes the American dinning experience and | | | | burdening your body with fast food and obesity? |
| unfortunately American Health most noteworthy | | | | The problem with fast food and obesity is that it |
| to world specialists. About 60M of the American | | | | has become socially acceptable, even encouraged. |
| population is considered obese. Australia only | | | | Some call it expression, even freedom, equality. |
| comes second in the fast food craze and obesity | | | | You see commercials of all sorts urging you get |
| maze. Most significantly is that the impending | | | | the latest dessert. You go to the mall and there's |
| danger of fast food and obesity concern has | | | | a special line of plus sizes. It all seems purely |
| become a world phenomenon. | | | | natural but it doesn't mean it's totally right. This |
| The problem of obesity has crept quickly as fast | | | | isn't to say that fast food can't be consumed |
| as the spurt of fast foods all throughout the | | | | occasionally, and that fat people should be |
| world. Though, we could not blame | | | | detested. The point is that these can be avoided, |
| McDonaldization and Globalization. | | | | and that there are better choices. |
| What makes fast food so appealing not only to | | | | Sure you can look at fast food as just a way of |
| Americans is that it's not just hot, tasty, and | | | | life; but also look at obesity as what it is, a |
| greasy; it's also constant and convenient. The | | | | disease, and a serious one, something you |
| cheeseburger that you so loved since childhood | | | | wouldn't want to indulge in. |