Life on the Fast Food Lane

tball practice to working overtimes, fast food restaurants allow us to eat quickly without planning, without dressing up, without having to make many decisions, and without getting out of the car. For the hurried and over worked, it is an eat and run at reasonable prices.
             Advertisements are big parts to fast food franchises success. The fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King target all shapes and sizes. They target young kids with happy meals, they entice teenagers with athletes, like Shaquille O'neal, and they strike adults with fast drive-thru services. As Brownwell, the director of Yale University's center on eating and weight disorders stated, "The food industry spends $30 million a year on advertising-with 70 percent of it pitching convenience foods, candy soda, alcohol, and desserts" (Nestle 41). Brownwell also stated, "Junk food is easier to find than healthy food, for it is advertised more" (Nestle 41). For only two percent promotes healthy stuff like fruits
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