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