Abstract

Fast food consumption in United States has been a major cause of obesity in young adults and even the older ones. There are almost 160,000 different fast food restaurants in US and the study shows that the percentage calorie intake of American on regular and weekly basis. Current studies in 2010 have shown that the intake of fast food has certainly lower down to 11.3% in comparison to that in 2006 which was 12.8%.

How much fast food is consumed in a single day in US?

Introduction

We are in a propensity of consuming or chomping nourishment while performing routine undertakings. The majority of us are thoughtless about the sort of nourishment, timing, size and the share of it we are depleting. Along these lines we continue consuming things that are not beneficial. Consistent with a later overview consuming between the dinners have been expanded around individuals of all a long time. Chips, pretzels, wafers, fries and bread are a percentage of the exact normal between the dinner's snacks (particularly while individuals are grinding away). The aforementioned savouries, delightful and tangy sustenance have one thing in like manner they have their exceptional taste which is truly enough to make you fanatic to them (Tichi, 2004, 91). Quick sustenance as they are they have zero caloric worth: no vitamins, minerals, protein or strand.

Globalization is rapidly eroding the boundaries between nation's dishes and drag the food culture of the world to Western diets: energy density in foods is rich in meat, milk and sugar. Diet is known by many people as food "Fast Food". Places like McDonald's or KFC are among the institutions that promote this diet. The concern of these two chains is not the diet they propose, but these are two of the most widespread chain restaurants in the world. McDonald's has 31,000 restaurants in 120 countries (Levinstein, 2003, 228). Approximately 1.6 million are overweight, and 400 million are obese. This is increasingly more with increasing populations that make a little money and live in urban environments.

A study provides supplementary arguments against fast food as we again found a direct relationship between fast food and the increase in obesity. The study has been published in the most prestigious journal in the field of nutrition, "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ". The study was carried out over 7,000 men and women in middle age and looked at factors such as daily calorie intake, alcohol consumption, physical activity, smoking and others (Kroc & Robert, 1992, 11). The most momentous conclusion reached today is that there is a direct relationship between the "fast food" (soft drinks, burgers, pizzas, sausages) and obesity. In addition, the intake of these products is the absence in the diet of other much more healthy, such as fish, fruit, cereals, vegetables and dairy products.

Number of Major Outlets in US

Restaurants

Number of Outlets

Subway

24,722

McDonald

14,098

Starbucks

10,821

Pizza Hut

7,600

Burger King

7,231

Dunkin' Donuts

7,015

Wendy's

6,594

Dairy Queen

6,187

Taco Bell

5,670

Domino's Pizza

4,907

Discussion

Fast food restaurants are always available in US at almost any time. It has usually been seen that fast food restaurants in other countries ...