Fast Food and Your Health
According to “Enzine @rticles”,” You are what you eat and if you eat fast food, you are running a risk. Eating lots of fast food is a good way to get fat and do a number on your body.” A lot of items at McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s and other fast food places, there menu items are extremely high in fat, calories, cholesterol and sodium. Those four things are all things that your body needs, but by having a hamburger and fries, its way to much of an intake. The average adult should have less than 2,000 calories a day and less than sixty grams of fat in a 24 hour day. Just one McDonald's Big Mac contains over six hundred calories, thirty grams of fat and over one thousands milligrams of sodium. That is over forty five percent of your daily recommended allowance. If you add a large fry to your meal, five hundred and forty calories, twenty six grams of fat and over three hundred and fifty grams of sodium. If you add a soft drink to that and you have over half of your daily allowed calorie intake and almost your entire allowable fat intake all in just one meal. “Enzine @rticles”, “says that if you make simple changes in your order you can consume less calories then you would at a high end restraint”. In order to please a growing number of customers who are concerned about their health, many fast food restaurants are going to using none or very few trans-fats which have been determined to be harmful to our health.Passi, Jerry "Fast Food and Your Health." Fast Food and Your Health. 5 Mar. 2007 EzineArticles.com. 16 Apr. 2010 <http://ezinearticles.com/?Fast-­Food-­and-­Your-­Health&id=478175>.
“Enzine @rticles” made me really thinks about how much calories that I consume in one day. I would have never known that by just eating one meal that I have had all my fat, calories, cholesterol, and sodium. Which that’s not even the good kind of fat that my body needs. I think that fast food is bad for my health and I will not eat near as much of it after reading this article. In the article Passi said that you’re supposed to have less than 2,000 calories a day, I bet that most Americans consume 2,000 or more a day that’s why over half are obese.