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The Fast Food Industry

The Fast Food Industry: Convenience or Cholesterol?

As your pulling up to McDonald's or Burger King on your lunch break do you ever stop to think about what nutritional value your fast food meal contains, or how it's affecting your body and mind? As convenient and delicious as it may seem at the time, you're actually doing your body more harm than good. The booming fast food industry is having devastating effects on its consumers and society at large.
The cuisine you would find at a traditional fast food restaurant lacks sustenance. By eating just that one Big Mac you are consuming 540 calories and 20 grams of fat, 10 of which are saturated. (McDonald's USA Nutrition Facts for Popular Items.) That's roughly one quarter of your recommended daily calorie intake. In The Fast Food Nation, a non-fiction book by Eric Schlosser, he explains that the flavors you taste in most fast food meals are actually added using complex chemicals designed to deliver flavors like "smoky chicken" or......


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