Americas addiction to fast food News Journal 16

Fast Food: It’s What’s for Dinner. And Lunch. And Breakfast.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/health/fast-food-consumption.html

In this article, it talks about how Americans are heavily reliant on fast food. One of the most impact parts of the article is, "On any given day in America, about one-third of adults will eat fast food". A person reliance on fast food is often dependent on an individuals income and age demographic. It was found that those earning less than the poverty line would have around a thirty-two percent chance of eating fast food daily. However, surprisingly families earning at least $87,850 a year or more would be even more likely to eat daily at fast food restaurants. Of those polled around forty-two percent of these people were having high fast food consumption daily. When it comes to age demographics, the highest fate of fast food consumers was discovered to be those between 20-29 years old. Around forty-five percent of these people were eating daily at fast food restaurants. A report done by the CDC found that American adults consume more than eleven percent of their daily calories from fast food. These calories increase the risk for cardiovascular and other diseases. And so this article warns that often Americans fear more dramatic health risks when they should be paying more attention to the more subtle impacts on their health such as where they are getting their food from. 

In America, the idea of fast food is widely favored. A part of American culture as mentioned in the book American Ways is about shorter meals in order to spend more time either doing work or pursuing an interest. This is supported by the article in how it shows how many Americans rely on fast food daily in order to speed up their days. Often fast food is greatly unhealthy to consumers and yet Americans still keep eating because of the convenience factor of it.

Bakalar, Nicolas. "Fast Food: It’s What’s for Dinner. And Lunch. And Breakfast." The New York T                   Times. 3 Nov, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/health/fast-food-consumption.html