Blog 16

In the passage “Let Them Eat Fat”, by the Harper’s Magazines talks about how the amount of calories have doubled in our daily living because of fast-food.

I do believe that the fast-food do grab attention for customers. First of all, fast-food restaurants don’t let our younger society live as long as our parents or elders around us. Secondly, fast-food restaurants cause many people to have unhealthy health condition.

Many fast-food locations do grab customer attentions. They might post a sign saying when purchasing a super-size you get free refills. In the passage, it gives an example of McDonalds. When buying super-size meals in McDonalds it automatic doubles our calories. Many of the customers might not realize that eating such a big meal could cause us to have an unhealthy health to our system. There are many reasons why many customers enter a fast-food restaurant. First reason, could be because is cheaper. Secondly, it could be a quicker way to grab something to take on the go. Thirdly, it might be the only thing closer around the way.  By many of us being so distracted by these restaurants, we don’t realize how our health condition is turning out. In addition, we could also be gaining more weight. A lot of us having a busy daily schedule don’t realize what we consume in. We are decreasing our protein but we are increasing our fat and carbohydrates. Fast-food is everywhere but they are now growing more in poor inner-city communities. They know that by increasing in those areas, more people will attend. The main reason is because it is at a good price for them and it is mostly located right there as soon as customers get off work. In our daily living we have customers increasing tremendously in their weight. Many teenager boys and girls drop by half their healthy nutrition and gain more fat rich.

Fast-food companies increase their super-size by adding offers to the customers. At the same time, the companies are not realizing that other people’s health is worsening. All this process that goes on could increase business and money for the companies but they do not notice that it decreases our healthy nutrients we could be consuming. Teenage kids are young and taking in so much calories, that at a certain age their health is going to get worse, gain weight, get a decease or many other things.  

We need to manage more what we eat. If we are following up with a specialist, then we need to listen to what the nutritionist and dietitians tell us. The reason is if we want to live a long time.