Fast Food Does More Harm Than Good

Hi I am here to tell why fast food does more harm than it does good. First off there is the issue of health. After all, how is the US full of so many obese people? Well, for starters, many are lazy and don't exercise. Also, they eat lots of fast food! Many people get it because it is cheap, as noted here. http://www.worldwatch.org... "People buy fast food because it's cheap, quick, and heavily promoted." There are heavy health side affects, as also noted there "round the world, traditional diets and recipes are yielding to sodas, burgers, and other highly processed and standardized items that are high in fat, sugar, and salt—fuelling a global epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses." We really do not need more people like this. Already, "In the United States, an estimated 65 percent of adults are overweight or obese, leading to an annual loss of 300,000 lives and to at least $117 billion in health care costs in 1999." Isn't that severe. And we do not need to continue it with fast food. "At many fast-food restaurants, a single meal gives a disproportionate share—sometimes more than 100 percent—of the recommended daily intake of fat, cholesterol, salt, and sugar." That's just another example showing how unhealthy it is. "A single meal of a Double Whopper with cheese, a medium order of fries, and an apple pie from Burger King contains more saturated fat than the American Heart Association recommends we consume in two days." Come on, 2 days worth????? "One sack of hash bites or potato snackers from White Castle , for example, contains 10 grams of very unhealthy trans fat. The American Heart Association recommends we consume less than 2 grams of trans fat per day. So in one side order, you've just eaten more than five days' worth of heart-busting trans fat!" - as noted here http://www.helpguide.org... . Now that is just making me sick. Really, 5 days worth of fat?????. That just contributes to that major loss of lives, at 300,000 a year as noted above. "The bad side of fast food is that it has almost "zero" nutritious value.", as noted http://www.buzzle.com... , indicates even MORE of this. Fast food has lots of fat, but very little to no nutritional value. Servings are disproportionally big. If you've ever seen the movie "Supersize Me", then you've just seen a tiny bit of the evidence out there, showing the harm caused by fast food. When Spurlock ate nothing but fast food for a month, his health rapidly decreased. He actually barfed from it a few times. His doctor warned him of potential kidney failure. Also, we are often supporting huge corporations, such as McDonalds, who hardly care about their people. Now I am not saying that this is always the case, there are in fact small, perhaps family owned, restaurants out there serving fast food. However, the majority of the time it is a huge corporation that is reaping in the profits. Many times the animals used in fast food are not even raised under ethical conditions. "Meanwhile, fast food producers require farmers to raise uniform fields of crops and herds of livestock for easy processing, eliminating agricultural diversity.", as noted from the above source. Animals are often raised in cramped, dirty, unhealthy conditions. It is all about doing things quickly and in mass quantity. They don't bother to keep things right. The corporations just don't care. Now, things are being done in the right direction. "In 2004, a law phased out the sale of all junk food (including soda) in the state's public elementary schools.". However, it is just not being done fast enough. Much damage has already been done, and I don't think it will stop anytime soon. We'll see what my opponent has to say about that. My sources are: http://www.worldwatch.org... http://www.helpguide.org... http://www.buzzle.com...